Doomblaster

Another old Epic unit that's made it's way into our 40k games. A Blood and Skulls kit that I mostly completed about a decade ago. I pulled it out for Apocalypticon, needing to make up points as a few players dropped with short notice, only to find I have never finished painting the cannons.

Dark Mech Tech Priest Manipulus

As per the title.

Iron Warriors Terminators

 Bought on Ebay and rebased. Obviously I need to swap one heavy weapon guy out for a bolter armed guy.

Airship #1 now with stand

 As per the title.

Thunderhawk

this has been in my pile of shame for a decade, so I'm glad it's built and painted. Not really that pretty, but it gives me options until I can obtain a real one.

Fortress of Arrogance

Another Easter Egg unit was the Fortress of Arrogance, Yarrick's ride. This one I printed from STLs found online.

I am Iron Man

Animosity events have a history of easter egg units, and Apocalypticon is no different. Scott asked me to print two sets of pokeballs, in small and large sizes, with room inside for a piece of paper. I did this and we then had a mechanism for Trazyn the Infinite to deploy units from his collection to the battle. The smaller balls were mounted on a base and became table top objectives. Once one was captured, one of the larger balls was drawn from a bag, and the paper slip inside said which unit was deployed to the battle. One such units was 20 Men of Iron - STL versions of UR-025 from Blackstone Fortress. I duly provided these. The reason we have 2 paint schemes is that I started with the silver one, but we though this was too close to the the Necrons themselves, so switched. I was rushed when painting these, so didn't repaint the first 4, so now their leader units, or something. Also the painting is very simple, this was completed a day or two before I was due to travel and I still had loads of scenery to do.

Blood Pact Missile Teams

Since GW has changed what's possible with IG, my Blood Pact have 3 Veteran Squads each with 3 Melta guns, which is now no go. The easiest way I had to bring them back so my friend Niels could use them for Apocalypticon, was to swap out 2 of the melta guns for a HWT. I had one of the missile teams done from way back when, so it was just finishing the other two. Sadly I don't know the exact colours I used then, and even if they're still made, so I did the best I could - I also cut corners, hence the skin tone difference (the very pale one is the old one).

Vashtorr

Finally painted. Lovely model but I had to rush and cut a few corners.

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 Last squad of infantry that Ben and I painted.

Squad 41 6C 67 6F 6C

 Obviously, you're seeing this after the event, but I'll add updates on the day once this stream of pre-programmed content runs out, painted again by Ben and I.

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First squad of Skitarii Rangers for my Dark Mech, painted by Ben and I for the event.

Iron Warriors Relic Contemtpor #1

Obviously fully painted now as it's in use at the event today!