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Arbites (old and new) - Call the Law

Since we're moving very soon, I've started clearing out the loft of shame. What this means is basically clipping stuff off sprues, assembling what I can, before packing it up and sending it off to storage. The upshot of this is I can consolidate armies, get rid of cardboard boxes and then set the empty sprues aside to recycle (now GW is doing this - hooray).

Coinciding with this has been a few deliveries of some new stuff for my Arbites force - something that will be a large component of the first Barnhammer event (probably next year now).

Here are the assembled minis from the new Kill Team box.

I built them mostly as the specialist, as I had a number of other figures to use to fill out squads. Here are my old metal Arbites, on 28mm adapters, along with a 3d printed Arbites type figure. As you can see I never even finished painting the original squad.

Here's a size comparison between old, new and another 3d printed version.

The latter printed versions are great for using up left over bits from the KT box, and then for rounding out the squads with some printed heads and guns etc. So far I have a full 10 of these maul and shield guys, 8 more shotgunners, another leader type with a Voxcaster, a medic an a few others to make into heavy and special weapons versions. I'll post pics when they are further along.

Thousand Son Vehicles

I recently bought these awesome Thousand Sons vehicles from my friend - King Fluff. I've always wanted to build a 40k scale Doomwing, but now no longer need to as I have this. The work is as ever top notch, so I'll need to get out my a-game to finish the Rhinos. Also having the old FW dreadnought is another thing off my collect them all list! Just the Black Legion one to go! 

Slaanesh Daemon Prince

Hope you are all having a good week? We've finally found a new place to live with a new outbuilding, which is ideal for gaming in the summer months! Expect some updates over on the other blog (https://bigtoys40k.blogspot.com/), it's space for big games!

This DP was started about 10 or so years back, when I was still in Canada (another of those ones). He's a mix of plastic pieces, wings, front torso, arms and head from the previous kit. The legs were from an old Blood Bowl Minotaur, which was something I'd been given in a trade, but never the torso. I remember collecting these when I came back to the UK one Christmas to take back to Vancouver to finish this build. The back of the model is just layers of Greenstuff, sculpted to look as much like the fur on the Minotaur as I could manage. Here we are a decade older and he's finally painted, first fully done piece for my Emperor's Children, half of which as old as this is.

Lavuran/Mordian Heavy Weapons Team

This is another model that's been half completed, and sitting in the hobby room for ages - I think I started it about 9-10 years ago, and has been constantly getting knocked and broken. Looking back, I posted it in 2017 as a WIP, but even then said it had been done years earlier. Anyway, after a super quick repair and paintjob on the loader, it's done and in the figure cabinet for the time I actually work on my Lavuran Guard Regiment of the Astra Militarum.

Blood Slaughterer Impaler finished

This has been hanging around my desk for months, and constantly breaking! It's been pinned more times than a donkey's tail, and the face has had to be reconstructed as the original got broken, so I wanted it painted, based and in the Detolf! Rather than go with the bright red of my other Khornate units, I went with the same scheme as on my Reaver titan - I'm hoping if Dark Mech come out, then this is the scheme I'll use. It's a Legio Mortis and Sons of Horus Justaerin/Reaver relatable scheme so it will also get some cross army usage I hope.

Sons of Horus For Rakallian Wars

I promised update on why I was painting more Sons of Horus, well in a few hours I'll be off to a Rakallian Wars event in Salisbury. I've never done one of these before, but I've heard good things, and these guys even give a mini for attending, who has special rules and can be used at the event itself! The mini is an Imperial Army type chap who joins one of your units - pretty cool eh? The figure itself was 3d printed (or printed and cast, but it's a nice figure anyway). I've included mine below. The 2 Reavers are the last pair from the squad I started last year, and the Mk.6 Tac squad were from E-bay. I had to add a few bits, do repairs and I painted the bases to match my army but I got the edge colour wrong for the colour I'm now using - oh well!

Rakallian Wars Veteran Model

Last Reavers from my first unit

E-bay Mk.6s