Deathwatch Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs - Done! Squaduary 2026

Hello one and all,

This week's offering is my poor attempt at Squaduary 26 - being that I've posted 0 about them! These guys have been sat on my desk base painted for ages, so Squaduary was a great time to get them done!

These have been completed with the same scheme, and additional 3D printed shoulder pauldrons and flame stacks for the base.

Really happy with the results, now just to try them in game!

I did try to make a cool AI picture with them - quite like it, thus might do this from now on for completed models!

Thanks for popping by! LH (5pts)

WIP - Deathwatch Assault Marines and Jump Captain

Hello!

Quick post, just some little WIP shots of some of my assault Deathwatch, and Jump Pack Captain. These guys have self printed smoke stacks, I'm not using the silly flimsy clear flying stands - these are slightly higher, but not too much to be called 'gamey' :)

Normal Deathwatch scheme, hopefully can get these done in the next week!

Cheers! LH

Deathwatch Space Marines - Assault Intercessors and Servitors - DONE!

Hello one and all, another week sees further additions to the Deathwatch force. This weeks offerings is a 5 man squad of Assault Intercessors Primaris Marines, also 4 Servitors for the force.

The Assault Primaris were made utilising the Intercessors as the base model, with the addition of various weapons from the bit box. The serg has a Powerfist from the SW kit, and the others with chainswords from other kits. Pistols were taken from my Primaris spares. This are designed to be a little more static than the current Assault Primaris, to look right with a Primaris Kill team. 

The scheme is exactly the same as previous Deathwatch marines.

 The Servitors have got either an orange base, for the tech servitor, or a red base for the weapons ones, so that they stand out on the battle field. Skin tones were designed to be more greyscales to show the age of the previous human. 

Thanks for popping by! LH (9pts)

Relictors Assault Centurions Squad

Hello, I'm posting this whilst still away, however, here is my latest offering, the completed Assault Centurion Squad - these three should make short work of most foes in Close Combat, as long as they don't come up against the other Devastator Grav Centurions on the way!

This Marine is wading into battle with his arms swinging wildly, I used the pointing arm without the pointy finger.

This Marine must be locked in battle, he is rather static, but the poses the box set offer you are quite limited.

Here's the entire Squad wading into the fray, I do love the Sergeant's poise, arms low and out to the sides beckoning his foe...

And just a bit of a 360 degree look at all the detailing these wonderful miniatures have, they have grown on me, still a little telly-tubby marines but I like them.

And a quick top down view, just to show the very bulky nature of these guys!

And finally, a shot of all the Centurions together - I won't be painting many more of these in a hurry, they take ages to do!

Hope you like and thanks for stopping by.

Relictors Assault Centurion Sergeant

Hello good readers, thanks for dropping in. Here is my latest addition to the ever growing Relictors Battle Company, some new Assault Centurions! Here is the Sergeant, the rest of the squad are following nicely.

Now these are chunky mofo's. Cetrainly a labour of love, I wouldn't want to paint anymore of these, they do take up some time, at one point I think I had over 50 components in the factory production line and that was with part built assemblies.

Every component has details and you need to part paint the innards before gluing together, a partlybuilt body with legs and basic arms can be done as one piece, followed by all the support struts, then weapons, cabling, more weapons, codpiece and finally shoulder pauldrons and head. Iused some Maximini skull helmets to emphasise the Relictors feel.

The Sergeant has TL Melta Guns, but the Centurion Marines will have TL Flamers. The Frag Assault Launchers in the chests will ensure they get into battle across terrain in a fit state and if charged may help them survive limiting the number of attacks. And those Siege Drills will make short work of Terminators, Vehicles and most Monstrous Creatures (if survive on Initiative). But I think they'll need a Landraider/StormRaven to get across the field!

Relictors Assault Squad Detachment and HQ

Continuing the recent Assault theme, this is how the Assault Detachment of my Relictors Battle Company now stands, two full squads and an Assault Chaplain as an HQ choice. As you can see the latter VIII Squad is moodier and darker and uses Chaos Helmets and a splattering of SW Chainswords, Chaos Plasma Pistol and some tattered loin cloth pouches. The former VII Squad is considerably brighter with Bone coloured jets and red chainswords, but I like the differences, portrayed in the Sergeants too.These two need an HQ to lead them into battle, so there is no better cost effective battle leader chioce in the SM Codex than an Assault Chaplain (IMHO), Liturgies of Battle for re-rolls to hit on the Charge and making the squad Fearless coupled with Digital Weapons himself for re-rolls to Wound with his Power Weapon Crozius - lots of hurty death to deal out.Will be back soon with some more heavy firepower...

*EDIT* Bigger photos available in Finished Relictors Web Album, link in Sidebar>>>>

Relictors Assault Squad VIII

So with the completion of the last two Assault Marines at the weekend, I thought a completed Squad photo was only fair. These are the darker, moodier squad compared to the VII Squad. Now I have enough Assault Troops to cause anyone a big problem.

This Squad has a Flamer and Plasma Pistol Special Weapons as well as a PowerFist and Combat/Storm Shield wielding Sergeant - enough to cause anyone to think twice.

I'll post the full Assault Detachment tomorrow...

Relictors Assault Squad pt7 - Final Two

These are the final two Marines from my Battle ompany Assault Squads. Now I have two full ten man Assault Squads and an Assault Chaplain to lead them. Ready to do battle with Pornstarjedi's acursed Daemons... or 6thDegree's xenos Genestealer scum.

Relictors Assault Squad pt6 - 2 more marines

The slow progress has made some headway last week with the completion of 2 more Assault Squad Marines, these are number 7&8 from Squad 2. Only two more to go until I can then progress with the final squad of the whole 5th Battle Company, Relictors Chapter - a second Devastator Squad.

The marine on the left has a bionic arm and the marine on the right has had a slight arm re-modelling to get a nice open aiming pistol pose, this was just a wedge shape piece of plastic sprue placed in the armpit to get the desired angle.

Relictors Assault Squad pt5 - Marine

Progress on the last 5 Assault Marines for the Battle Company is somewhat slower than I'd like however I seem to have a mental block when it comes to Jump Packs, they just don't interest me but are a large part of each Assault Marine... anyone else have this block?

This is Marine 6 of Squad 2. His other squadmates can be found here.

Relictors Terminator Assault Squad II - Finished

So I have finally finished the Terminator Assault Squad with Lightning Claws to complement the first Terminator Assault Squad posted here. Now finally I can give Pornstarjedi as good as I get when he fields his Termies.This is the Sergeant from Space Hulk with a few alterations and greenstuff smoothing over unwanted icons and battle damage from those pesky stealers. Unpainted view here.

Last two pics are the rest of the Squad. I think I like the Blue Power Weapons look, it took ages to find a colour and method I was happy with and it's easy to do. Enchanted Blue basecoat, heavy Badab Black wash, drybrush with Enchanted Blue, then Hawk Turquoise and a final extreme highlight drybrush with 50:50 mix of Hawk Turquoise and Skull White.

Bigger pic of squad in sidebar Album 'Finished Relictors'>>>>>>>>>>

Relictors Terminator Assault Sqd - WIP Update again

Nearly there with these guys. One more to finish then these will be the first i've completed this year. Wow! Progress has been slow with too many other distractions.

Working on another surprise for the weekend Apoc battle... a little bigger than a Termie but not a Titan by any means...

Relictors Terminator Assault Squad - WIP Update

So, back from sea now and putting the finishing touches to more of this squad.

Only got 3 more arms to do before I'll post the whole squad together - only taken 6 months off and on. Damn real life getting in the way ;)

Off to Pornstarjedi's next weekend for an Apoc battle of extreme nasties - Reaver Honorum and Warhound Canis Bellum will be out to play and try not to get killed in the first turn like before!! Alas, Pornstarjedi will have other plans...

Relictors Terminator Assault Squad II - WIP update

Just a quick update on the progress of the Terminator Assault Squad with Lightning Claws, got 6 more Lightning Claw arms and two bases to finish then all done. More shots when complete...

And just a thank-you for the Gross followers, that is mathematical Gross - 144 followers, thanks, hope you enjoy our stuff.

Siph, Pornstarjedi and 6th Degree

How many Marines can I paint in a day?

That is the question I hope to answer on Monday 1st November 2010- I have schedule the day to do nothing but paint, and blogging as I go. The aim is simple, paint as many marines as I can. I'm intending to do updates after 2 hours, with images as I progress. I must be mad!!

Relictors Assault Squad VII Finished

Here are the last two members of my first assault squad finally finished, now I can game legally field the 8th member who had a 2nd Plasma Pistol as a WYSIWYG rather than proxy bolt pistol! Next time these get to the field, they'll be as a ten man squad.

Actually, maybe a ten man squad plus a 5 man squad with Chaplain...

Relictors Assault Squad pt4 - Sergeant

I've been progressing quite well this week with the squad after months of nothing. Today i finished off the Sergeant, it is the FW Red Scorpion Assault Sergeant body with Chaos Vehicle Accessory Head and normal Marine parts. The skull shoulder pad is from Chaos Marauders i think?
He has been raised slightly on the base using chopped pieces of sprue and GW basing sand with a tiny fleck of flock as I always do. I used a shaved down skeleton skull to adorn the combat/storm shield, it is painted to match the same skull design on his powerfist.

The scroll work and purity seals and detailing on this mini are great, if not time consuming to get done. Here is a shot with the rest of the squad so far. As always I'm aiming for full ten man squads to complete my Battle Company. All Tactical Squads are done, just 7 Assault Marines and 2 Devastator Squads to do. One Devastator Squad will be using the new FW Iron Armour. This is the 5th Company, 8th Squad, hence the numerals on the vents (V and VIII).

And lastly is a comparison between the first Assault Squad Sergeant i did a while ago and now. I think my painting style and skill have developed over time which is always nice to see.

WIP Relictors Assault Squad pt3

I must be the world's slowest painter. Work continues at last on some of my Relictors after a hectic period. Thought I'd better update the blog at some point since my last post was way way back and I have the painting mojo back again. Yay!

The left and centre guys are newly done, the other two posted already. 4 down, 6 to go for this squad. Still got 2 to do from these guys twin squad but with Bleached Bone Vents and Weapons. But, I'm liking the dark feel of these for now...