Relictors Space Marine Battle Company on Parade - Nov 2018

Relictors - November 2018

Relictors - Jun 2009

Relictors - Feb 2016

Hello readers, thanks for dropping by. A treat for the eyes today I think. I occassionally get the minis out of the display cabinets enmasse when a spring clean is required which presents an opportunity to have a photo shoot. So, here is the 5th Company Relictors Chapter Space Marines with Armoury Support Pool and elements of 4th Company and of course a maniple of Legio Astorum Titans - because they make a great back drop!

The Bikers led by a 'jet'Bike Captain.

The core 5th Company 6x Tactical Squads, 2x Devastator and Transports.

The core 2x Assault Squads making the 10 Squads of 5th Company.

The Command, led by Marneus Relicgar... and Damocles Command Rhino

The Librarius

The Chaplaincy

The Ancient Brothers in the Dreadnoughts

The Heavy Support

More Heavy Support and Artillery and Air Wing

More of the Specialist Heavy Support

Xiphon Fighter with the supporting Titans of Legio Astorum

4th Company MkVI Corvus Armoured Brothers (RTB01 Beakies), more Command and Centurions

4th Company Squads led by Vulkan Re'stan, more Command and Centurions

Scouts from 10th Company

A Relic Rhino from the Transport Pool, dwarfed by its modern Heavy Tanks

The honoured Terminus Ultra Pattern Landraider and Linebreaker Squadron of Vindicators.

The Air Wing and Relic Landspeeder

There you go, hopefully you enjoyed these pics, 5th Company Relictors and support. By all means not finished yet, I still officially have the Company Champion to complete before the Battle Company as was is completed, but on the to-do pile for 'old marines' before I can move on to nu-Primaris - I still have:

Storm Raven, Storm Eagle Gunship, Land Raider Crusader, Scout Landspeeder Storm, Scout CCW x 5, Scout Bolter x 5, Veterans Rhino, Deimos Predator Plasma, Deimos Predator Melta, Fellblade Superheavy, Caestus Assault Ram, Tactical Squad x 20 (BatC), Tactical Squad x 20 (BofP), Devastator Squads - HB x5 / LC x4 / Grav x 5 / MM x5; Sternguard Squad w/ Combi Weapons x 10, Vanguard Veterans Squad x 5, Assault Squad w/ Eviscerator x 5, Bike Squad x10, Librarian on Bike, Chaplain on Bike, Chapter Master AOS Conversion, Captain w/ Plasma Pistol (LE), Captain w/ Power Fist (LE), Terminator Captain w/ Power Sword, Terminator Assault Squad w/ Skull Storm Shields x 5, Cataphrachti Terminator Squad x 5, Tartaros Terminator Squad x 5, Terminator Librarian in Tartaros Terminator Armour, Legion Praetor, Legion Praetor in Tartaros Terminator Armour, Company Champion and a RTB04 Predator....

Plenty to keep me going into retirement!... and this is just one of my many armies. Anyway, thanks for dropping by, hope you enjoyed the pictures and see you soon,

Cheers, Siph.

Legio Crucius Warhound - WIP #1 - Bathing

Hi One and All,

I've started making progress with the second Warhound, having spent some time cleaning and cutting the parts ready for the build.

I've had all the parts for the Warhound in a bucket of warm water for 24 hours following cutting most pieces required from the moulding vents. There are a couple of pieces I've left on the sprue including the bigger pieces of resin which I am planning to use as terrain features such as tank traps etc.

I think this Warhound will be built a little slower than the last one...

Thanks for looking! LH

Legio Astorum Reaver Titan Volcano Cannon - Up-gunned

Hi Titan Enginseers, thanks for dropping by. I had completed Part 1 of up-gunning Reaver 'Honorum' in preparation for Titan Vs Titan clashes at Titan Owners Club Walks... where all the registered Titan Owners get together for some 40K scale Adeptus Titanicus battles! The last big-TOC UK one can be found HERE. And the latest Walk found HERE, the mini-TOC Walk, this time from the TOC Facebook Group was held in Tamworth nr Birmingham UK on 13th Oct.

The Reaver Volcano Cannon lacks some of the detail of the Warlord Belicosa Volcano Cannon, however there is a lot of hidden detail like the capacitor coils at the rear and the dials hidden under the armour.

I added two crossed-axes Kill Markings on the carapace from Honorum's exploits at the TOC Walk UK. On the Volcano Cannon you can see the star map insignia common with Legio Astorum and individual weapon kill markings for smaller but significant kills, the odd superheavy, xenos inferior Titan... at the TOC(FB) Walk Honorum killed a Reaver and Warhound!

I originally had just the Gatling Blaster for the left arm...

... and the magnetised Titan Powerfist, purely for aesthetics really, I love the look.

And in preparation for the Titan Vs Titan matches, now a Volcano Cannon and the WIP Twin Laser Destructors on the Carapace. The Apocalypse Missile Launcher is great for large 40K battles, but is a bit 'meh' when your foe is a Warlord! The Twin Laser Destructors put out a lot of hurt at S16 to rival the Walord T16, making to-wound rolls easier.

Some WIP shots of the detailed end, then mostly hiddenby the gun shield - dials and gauges, and a random keypad and screen for a Tech Adept no doubt.

I added some gold banding for interest and some heat staining at the business end. 

Here you can see the heat stained barrel, just simply washes of Nuln Oil - Asurman Blue - Druchi Violet - Seraphim Sepia

The kit does not come with spare hoses like the previous gun arms, so the gaps were filled with bits - the rear leadblecher covers.

Not forgetting the laser rangefinder/targeter as detailed in the latest Adeptus Titanicus artwork.

So, Titan progress, not the Warlord, but good to get Reaver Honorum up-gunned to better face the might of Lynden P's Traitor Maniples :)

Thanks for dropping in, Cheers, Siph. (10 Painting Points for additional Titan sized weapon options)

Abaddon the Despoiler WIP 2

Hi One and All,

So I've done some further work on my Abaddon model, using the FW Horus model as the base.

 I've used key parts from the Abaddon model, and cut them away from the old resin model and added these to the Horus model. Previously I had tried to model the pipe work, however I wasn't happy with it (see Link below)

https://weemen.blogspot.com/2018/03/abaddon-despoiler-wip.html

So, I've had a few goes using the Green Stuff roller, and here are the results.. I'm happy with the size and the look of the model, the next process is to model the eye from Abaddon's should pauldron, under the wolf cloak. I will then start the process of painting him up.. hopefully before the new model drops..

Cheers LH

Happy Blogger Birthday WeeMen - 10 years today - Thanks Lovely Readers

Well, an arbitary milestone :) Thank-you lovely readers for giving us the inspiration and inclination to keep posting about our hobby related musings. I originally created this Blog to share with my bestie the hobby stuff I was up to, and his hobby stuff shared with me. Now, the goal remains pretty similar, we recognise the efforts all Bloggers put in, the sense of community with other Blogger Buddies and a nice, easily found archive of our hobby exploits the insta-gratifying Social Media platforms fail to provide (imho).

In a time when Blogs all over report a loss of readership, we are happy with our lot - anyone beside ourselves reading is still a wonderful bonus!

From humble beginings we grow and remain, doing our own thing, Advertisement free, and hopefully we've inspired a few hobbyists along the way. Thank you GW, FW and BL. And the readers of this humble corner of the Blogosphere...

Thank you all.

Here's to another ten years (if Blogger stays alive...) and we'll keep reading and commenting on fellow blogs we visit and feel free to check out the great blogs in the Sidebar, we know it takes time and effort to produce decent posts and some of you put in tons of effort, more than us!  >>>>

It's customary (perhaps) to do a free giveaway here on WeeMen at an completely non-important arbitary milestone, so, whilst their might be nothing for this one we are nearly at 1 Million pageviews, we'll do a giveaway then :) I just have to secure a nice gift for the lucky reader/charity raffle winner - the previous one at 500,000 hits was only 2yrs ago.

Cheers, Siph, Lord Halfpenny and the elusive (but hopefully coming back soon with Titans) 6thDegree!

Mechanicum Vorax Battle-Automata for Blogger Buddy Zzzzzz

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. Possibly my favourite Mechanicum unit design, and very insectoid in appearance, the Vorax Battle-Automata are "hunter-killer robots with a design that harks back to the Dark Age of Technology. Created on pre-Imperial Mars to fulfil the roles both of a search and destroy weapon and an exterminator of rogue machines and mutant vermin, their Cybernetica cortex engrams are known to be particularly predatory and vicious examples of their kind", according to the fine folks at Forge World.

I painted these for my blogger buddy Zzzzzz over at Devos IV blog as a favour or exchange for his Custodes models he gave to me for free. To match his Legio Astorum Titan Maniple and the urban wasteland of Devos IV I painted these in the familiar Blues and Golds which look good against the bleak greys of the urban wasteland. A nice departure from my brown bases and I enjoyed painting these gribblies, a bit fiddly at times, only one ammo feed belt was a goner - but repaired and overall I enjoyed getting these done and packed off to the Warp...

This is the Maniple drone leader, armed with the usual Rotor Cannons and Power Blades they all have but this one denoted by the yellow head flash is armed with an Irad Cleanser carapace weapon.

I added heat staining to the Rotor Cannon barrels and a slight blue wash to the Power Blades.

This one has one foot in the air, so the second Rotor Cannon is placed in contact with the ground to provide another point of contact.

The next gribbly is armed with the standard loadout of a Lightning Gun carapace weapon. Plus the Rotor Cannons and Power Blades. I chose to gloss the black eyes to reflect the insectoid look emulating a compound eye.

The urban wasteland bases were simply Dawnstone, washed Nuln Oil and Agrax, drybrushed Dawnstone and then Admisistratum Grey, picking out a few bits of sprue as bricks. Tufts were from Gamers Grass.

Each has a unique decal identifying its designation, on the other side of the carapace an Eclipsed Sun of the Legio Astorum.

The final member is possibly my favourite stance, it looks like the other two have rounded on the prey and this one is braced to carry out the attack. The chin sensor was painted with the Stormhost Silver and Soulstone Blue to give a energy glow.

And finally, an action shot in front of the Shrine of the Aquila, reminiscent of my original three painted by blogger buddy Mordian7th seen HERE.

Cheers everyone, and must get around to painting up my Custodes now that these robots are on the way to Devos IV! Thanks for having a look-see and keep painting! Cheers, Siph. (15 painting points - 3x Dreadnought sized)

Happy Birthday to me.. Titan Ahoy!

Happy Birthday to me, 

Happy birthday to me.

I bought myself a titan...

Happy Birthday to me...

Warhound 5599 ready to build...