I’m currently on vacation with the family at the beach, but I brought some models to assemble while I am here. I built up 3 Castellax with Darkfire Cannons and a Legion Praevian to run them in my Ultramarines. They will be dual use as I can also use them in the Mechanicum army.
Played a 4000 point game with Pete today. We rolled up the misson where objectives can be worth 1,2,3 or negative d3 victory points plus 1 point per unit killed. The Iron Warriors ended up winning (he had 100 Strength 8 shots in the army!) but it was close and a lot of fun. I’m pretty happy with most of the army, but I’m not getting a lot out of the Knights. Next time I will probably only bring the Knight Styrix as a Lord of War and take more Mechanicum stuff.
There is no official model for the Ursarax from Forgeworld yet so I’m working on building some custom ones. I’m going for a darker theme for a bunch of conversions for the Mechanicum to represent them toying around with things the Imperium might not normally allow, but not yet joining Horus in his rebellion. This will give me the option to play on either side in the 30k events.
The models are built off of Vampire Counts Crypt Horrors
I’ve managed to put the purple down on the knight and have started on the gold trim. I’m really pleased how it’s coming together. I need to finish the gold up and then go back and cleanup over spray on the metals. Also decide how I want to wash the metals and I’d I want to add a third metal color accent or not.
I did a quick color test for the Knight Acheron tonight. I knew I wanted to do a purple for the armor plates, but I wasn’t sure on the trim color. I am likely to go with the bright brass as the silver doesn’t contrast very well with the main metal internals.
I finished painting up the Triaros. What a great model. I just love the look of it. Sadly it didn’t get to do anything in my last game as it got stomped on by an imperial knight. I might go back and add some decals later if I can get some made.
Triaros Armoured Conveyour
I played a 3500 point game versus Pete’s Death Guard. I don’t remember what the name of the mission, but there were 3 objectives that scattered and you had to control them at the end of a turn. I ended up loosing 9-8 for a super close game.
Did some assembly work on the knight. Such a beautiful model and it went together really well. There is a missing piece that I am waiting on Forgeworld to send, but it’s a great kit to put together. Now to figure out the paint scheme to use.
