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

Sons of Horus Lupercal Tank

It's been almost a year since I started printed the Lupercal tanks I only shared photos once I had them mostly assembled, so I thought I should get some paint on at least one of them. Since I've off for my second game of v2 Heresy next weekend at an event (more details of that later) I thought I should do the SoH one since that's the army I'm using.

After this week, things will go back to quiet mode most likely. Since some point in the latter half of last year, I've not pretty much stopping gaming - I tried 9th ed Crusade and one game of HHv2 plus the Cold War Commanders event but apart from that not much. On top of that, we've now accepted an offer on out house, and have made an offer on a smallholding - so things are likely to be crazy busy for a few months. 

Many Tanks!

 

Things here are slowing due to the amount of time I've had to spend finding a new job and preparing things for the wedding any honeymoon. I've been assembling some of the projects I've been printing over the last few weeks, so those will be the updates for the next few days. I'm still adding datasheets onto the Big Toys 40k blog, and I do have some news to share on that score, but just waiting for some updated graphics. Anyway, in the pic above, there's the previously shown 4th Legion Lupercal, now in black along with 2 of its siblings, Vulcan and a Vanquisher variants. The other standard Lupercal is for the 16th legion, to join its namesake. The Land Raider Achilles is also for the 4th, and the Warhound, missing its Vulcan Mega Bolter is for Legio Mortis, like the Reaver shown a few weeks back. I may make another later in the yet for my loyalists, when I have more money for filament, and when my Warlord is complete.

Sons of Horus Reavers Completed

I finally got these finished a few weeks back, ready for King Fluff's Cataclysm of Iron IV event. Which was a great time time, and I got to meet a load of new people, as well as see some familiar faces from previous years.

Reavers WIP

I've started building a few Reavers, these are the Mark 4 ones, built as per the supplied parts. I still need to hot water bend the axes. I've made some 3d printed ones, not shown, have jump packs and Volkites, I'll add them up here shortly.

'Dabnought' finished

I have now got the last few bits done on the Dabnought.

Sons of Horus WIPs

I've been working a few things for my Sons of Horus, which will be my first GW army in use out of lock down!

Dabs the 'dabbing' dreadnought - painting almost done

Damocles Rhino, with Sons of Horus doors that I remixed myself from items on Thingiverse, and a radar dish I found on the same site.

Sons of Horus Rhino

There's nothing like completing a project that's been in the pile of shame for almost a decade - the second of 3 Rhino conversions kits I got from Blood and Skulls back when I was in Canada. 

Sons of Horus Mark. 2 Done

 I managed to get a quick coat of varnish on them today, so calling these done.

Sons of Horus Mark.2 WIP 2

 Got the last 5 done to the same level - bases and varnish left to do.

Sons of Horus Mark.2 WIP

Hopefully I will be attending a 30K teams event this year - when the restrictions get relaxed. Therefore, I'm cracking on with adding a second tactical squad to my Sons of Horus force. I've built them another Blood and Skulls Rhino too, so I'll share some photos of that once it's in the green scheme. Here's the first 5 speed painted, with just the bases to finish, then a coat of Dullcote as the wash went all shiny.

Sons of Horus Praetor

Praetor with a paragon blade, just the FW model.

Sons of Horus Loken

Finished up so I could play as  Loyalists.

Sons of Horus Tartaros

Just a squad of regular plastic terminators.

Sons of Horus Techmarine

Painted with a little help from a friend! CMB Techmarine with Kromlech servo harness.

Sons Of Horus Apothecary

First post in ages! Been ill, got better, got dumped, had problems at work...so painting dropped off the radar. Anyway, I've been working on some stuff for my Sons of Horus for use in King Fluff's Cataclysm of Iron event.

First up, here's my jump pack Apothecary, who is attached to my Assault squad.

Made from a plastic Mark 4 marine with a Kromlech jump pack, Kromlech medic arm  a resin Forgeworld head.

Horus Complete

The big man is done, and I still hated every minute of painting this...

Horus WIP

As promised, a post every day, so today it's just a WIP, butit's the old Warmaster himself. I have to say I utterly hate this model, and if I didn't need to have it done before Sunday, I wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole. Somewhere along the line, the talons got smashed, the mace broken, and one of the small cameras lost. I've done my best to repair all but the last loss, but I really dislike all the random surface detail on this model, it doesn't work well with my quick painting style. Anyway, another update on him tomorrow.

Sons of Horus Contemptor

I finished this chap along with my other batch of SoH a while back, but his initial photos were totally unusable. So here are some slightly better ones.

Sons of Horus Despoliers

Mix of plastic Mark 3 and 4 marines, based on 25mm to match my other troops, and given a mix of Chaos and Assault marine arms.