Deathwatch Space Marines - WIP update

Hello all, quick update - due to work! I have 3 current WIP. First up, a Relictors Deathwatch Primaris Captain, this guy has had a head swap for a 3D printed skull helm, also a hellblade has been added - as they are slightly heretical with their views! (How very dare you - Siph)

Next up, an Ultramarine Terminator Captain, this was one of the limited edition models with the grenade harness on the power fist, coming together well. Need add some further details and decals to finish.

Lastly, a Land Raider Spartan, as the Deathwatch boyz need a decent ride! This will be used to hold larger squads of Terminators, and hopefully securely over the battle field!

Cheers, LH

Squaduary 2023 - Relictors Primaris Reivers

Welcome Reader, I have continued my Squaduary pledge this week with a simple build of the Reiver Squad. A bit of a cop out with progress as I have been busy with getting a Warlord Titan ready for this weekend Beachhead Walk event!

These are push fit Primaris Reivers, and as such were only in three designs, so some arm swaps and head rotation and I get five individual looking Primaris Marines in Phobos Armour.

Two troopers, identical bodies

The other two twins, now with different arms.

Right that's it for this week Squaduary, I will get some paint on these and start the process proper after this weekend's Titan Walk!

Cheers, Siph

Legio Astorum - Warlord #3 - Ex Noctia WLT No.10 - Rites of Colour Continue

Hello Titanseers and welcome back. Progress on Ex-Noctia Warlord No.10 is progressing well. I have now completed the base and in process of gluing and screwing up into the feet from below, the trick being making sure you have wide head screws or washer, plus a hole drilled to the same circumference and depth of the screw haft, so just the thread digs into the resin. I also add a littel JB Weld to the screw for the maximum hold. The head of the screw is countersunk into a forstner bit recess so the underside of the base is flush. Here you can see some leg armour being glued and clamped in place.

The armour and heraldic shields and head and carapace weapons are all completed, awaiting the final 'beetle back' carapace armour panels, seen below.

This should not take too long to do, once completed though - I do have a small issue of the original owner sale included the weapons but when collected they were missing except the two fists it was fitted with at the time and still have not been found - I have been asking, however, I wanted WLT10 and the price without these was fair so I move on and need to purchase some more replacements in the near future. In the meantime and for the upcoming Beachhead 2023 Walk, I will use my Sunfury Plasma Annihilator and paint a Macro Gatling Blaster.

Clamping the Shoulder armour in place

Here is the completed base with the blasted tree, a random ebay purchase where I thought I was getting a pack of six for the price and in picture but the small print said each... always read the small print! Doh. So no forest terrain for me, and a lone tree fits nicely here.

The previous post I did have these rear armour panels in red still, however I thought better of it, too many red accents would detract from Astorum blue and gold, so they received the Rites of Colour too.

The Void Shield Vanes and top carapace I explained previously how they would remain red, however alternative red and blue panels works nicely with the other red accents and still leads nicely to the blue frontal armour.

The link to a whole Warlord Titan Construction process can be found HERE.

Just a few panels and an arm to get finished for this weekend's BeachHead 2023 at Bournemouth BIC for the Titan Owners Club UK BeachHead Walk!

Legio Astorum will Walk at the next Titan Owners Club UK event, where they will be battling alongside other Forge World Titans! I will be sure to post lots of photos.  Remember to register your own Titans at Titan Owners Club, and if you want some cool Titan Owners Club merchandise, we even now have a Spreadshirt Shop, any profits go to running these events or buying Titan sized terrain for future Walks for all members to enjoy :)

Cheers, Princeps Siph :)

What is it??? WIP

 Hello all!

Welcome to todays game 'WHAT IS IT???' This is a current WIP, kit bashing with a number of kits, green stuff and all other of crazy stuff! If you guess right, you win a nice warm feeling inside!

3 pictures, in true GW style! 

Its that time of year again! - Squaduary 2023 - Primaris Reivers

My calendar year has two hobby community highlights I partake in, October "Dreadtober" and February's "Squaduary" - and its February so it's time I grabbed something that has been sitting around on the painting desk for all too long and got it finished! Thanks to DAM at 262nd DKK Blog for the timely reminder!

Squaduary was run by Stepping Between Games blog, Thousand Eyes used to plow through the interwebz and Instagram for the Squaduary pledges and pooled them together. This has now fallen by the wayside but I may have gone and continued my hobby now-tradition last year even if officially there wasn't one, and a few of the community continued too.

In 2022 it was a Squad of Bikers

In 2020 it was a Devastator Squad with Heavy Bolters

In 2019, I completed a Vanguard Squad of Skitarii for my growing AdMech army.

In 2018 it was a Squad of RTB01 Beakie Marines.

And in 2017 it was the first squad of RTB01 Beakie Marines.

So, this year is a long overdue squad of push-fit Reiver Primaris Marines! I haven't actually any Reivers built so these will be a start, just a squad of five as my OCD doesn't allow six! 

Wish me luck and join in if you want! And make sure you check out DAM's Dark Angels at 262nd DKK Blog. My initial progress may be slow as I have a Warlord to finish before Beachhead on the 11-12th Feb! 

Cheers, Siph

Legio Astorum - Warlord #3 - Ex Noctia WLT No.10 - Painting Armour

The Rites of Colour continue for this mighty veteran God Engine of Beta Garmon now recovered and being re-sanctified. The transfer from Legio Atarus to Legio Astorum has meant a complete overhaul of systems and removal of the sanctified armour plates for rededication and repainting.

Some armour re-painted in place and details like Pistons and Searchlights done.

As a nod to the previous heraldry and history of the Titan, and to avoid upsetting the Machine Spirit, the addition of red markings to the traditional Blues and Golds of Legio Astorum will be preserved, the rear leg pauldrons retain their Atarus reds and silvers, whilst the shoulder armour will preserve some reds and elsewhere reds will be preserved as stripes. 

The main red accents will remain on the void generator arches atop the Titan. One because it makes it easier to identify next to Dominus Victoria (WLT104) on the battlefield viewed from above and rear, but mainly because I did not want to repaint all the hard to get to details! I loathed painting these vents and arches on Dominus Victoria, so I was keen to preserve the reds here - but tied into the blues and stripes elsewhere with the alternate red and blue panels.

As always this will be based like my other Titans using 6mm MDF and forstner recessed screws from the underside into the feet. If you are looking for a complete guide on construction of a Forge World Warlord see below:

The link to the whole Titan Construction process can be found HERE.

This needs to be ready for BeachHead 2023 at Bournemouth BIC for the Titan Owners Club UK BeachHead Walk!

Legio Astorum will Walk at the next Titan Owners Club UK event, where they will be battling alongside other Forge World Titans! I will be sure to post lots of photos.  Remember to register your own Titans at Titan Owners Club, and if you want some cool Titan Owners Club merchandise, we even now have a Spreadshirt Shop, any profits go to running these events or buying Titan sized terrain for future Walks for all members to enjoy :)

Cheers, Princeps Siph :)

Deathwatch Space Marines - Bladeguard - Done!

Another week gone, not sure where! Up next, 3 Bladeguard Deathwatch Marines, 

They have been converted to have Necron power weapons rather than swords - as they look cool! and have had the addition of 3D printed shoulder pads and helmets. I've added shoulder pauldrons from the Emperors Spears, Dark Kraken and Wolfspears chapters.

I really love how the weapon colour contrasts with the metallic black armour- I've tried to make the blades as 'Necron-like' as possible, whilst retaining the similar highlighted appearance of all the other power weapons.

The helms are 'Sparta' based, I wanted them to stand out more, as really the Bladeguard marines are the veterans of the Primaris breed.

Overall happy with the way these guys finished, and 3 more to the sizable Deathwatch force! Next up are more marines, and a very interesting character.

Cheers, Lord TITANium Halfpenny (6pts)

Age of Sigmar AoS Conversion to 40K Lord Relictor - Chapter Master

Hello All, welcome and thanks for dropping by. A long overdue WIP now completed at last. I suggested I would convert this Age of Sigmar Lord Relictor to something Warhammer 40K Relictors Space Marine Chapter, this was posted HERE in 2015! Well, better late than never...

I present the Chapter Master of the Relictors Chapter Space Marines, the Lord Relictor himself! Now, if any of you have read the Relictor's Chapter fluff background the role of Chapter Master is really a title given to one of the Relictor Captains. The actual Command of the Relictor's was long ago passed to the Librarius and the Chief Librarian. A link to the fluff can be found above on the title bar.

I converted the legs of the Lord Relictor model to have the bottom greaves of a Terminator, and used the haft of a Thunderhammer re-attaching the AoS head. I also added a Crux Terminatus to the shoulderpad, a lot of filing and cutting to make it fit.

Here you can see some of the gubbins on the rear of the Storm Shield, which is made from the terrain Arcane Ruins skull faces.

Here is the Storm Shield, I added a Skitarii sensor to one eye and a Crux Terminatus plus a censer from the Skitarii too.

Finally I added a Terminator 'hood' with sensor pack and a small shield repeating the one on the Storm Shield. With a small mechadendrite from the Skitarii pack poking out from the leather pterges and a grenade pack. I then filed off the icon on the chest ornament and added a decal. I am rather happy how this conversion worked out.

Cheers, Siph (10pts)

Deathwatch Chapter Space Marine Characters - Done

Hello one and all,

Two completed characters for my offerings this week, both for my Deathwatch force.

First up, the Iron Father model - or first born techmarine as he will be in game, (I might change him for a captain in the future... if needed..) 

The model has been painted akin to the other Deathwatch force. I opted for black armour, than the red normally associated with Techmarines. I think this is right for a Deathwatch marine.

The Judiciar next, this has had a couple of changed made - I wanted to change the weapon to that of one of the Necron models in the Indomius set - I opted for one of the bigger swords (Hyperphase Reap Blade - Siph) in the set, which looks perfect for the background of the character. a 3D printed pauldron was added to the right shoulder, and a DW one for the left. 

I also changed the left arm, using a spare bit which changes the look, and captured the feel I wanted. as if waiting to spin the weapon around, and use 2 handed. An old servo skull was added to the left shoulder holding the Indominus icon - whcih links the two models together, and the timer below it - I had to add this in some way to the model, and really like the way it sits on the model. The Servo skull looks like it is just floating over the shoulder, which is the look I wanted. 

The Power sword has had several different washes and layers of purples to pink, to white to get the look I wanted. and am pretty happy with the result! 

Thanks for looking! DH (20pts)