D Company, 7th Mordion Regiment pt.10

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Greetings Terrans! Sorry it has been a while since I last posted – I have been slowly been chipping away at the remaining 4 APCs for my Mordion project… I really don’t enjoy painting vehicles at the best of times, but tanks in particular seem to be a real slog for me – hence the glacial progress… Still, even glaciers get there in the end, and so do I:

They are all the same as the first one I painted, so not much to say about them really! Here they are, out enjoying a spot of sunshine with the entire 1st Platoon:

I also got a third AdMech Tech Priest finished up. I confess, I didn’t realise that Bob Olley did three of these guys until I did my research for the first two I painted. Once I did, it was pretty clear that I was going to track down number three & add him to the army:

I love his weird ram’s head helmet/leather boot combo, but I’m not sure what’s going on with the weird dildo-axe thingy… what happens on Mars stays on Mars I guess? All praise the Omnissiah!

Anyway, here he is with his buddies – really nice to complete this gribbly trio of weirdos:

Anyhoo, that’s all for now folks. I’m going to be shifting gears on this project for a while & go into a building phase – 2nd platoon needs a lot of converting so I doubt I’ll get that done in time to prime before winter, but I might do a rush job on some of the other platoons so I can keep chipping away at this army in the dark months. I’ll also be picking up some Eldar I have primed & will push that project forward as well. Onwards and upwards!!

D Company, 7th Mordion Regiment pt.9

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Greetings Terrans, I have more progress to share on my Mordion project – my first tank (ok, APC) for this army!

I used a 1/35 Tamiya M113 as a Rhino-esque proxy – it’s about right in terms of footprint, but it is a little tall… Still, I think it looks the part & I’ve left it alone other than changing the pintle weapon for a heavy something from the OohRa sprue.

I painted it with the grey same urban camo as the troops themselves, weathered it a bit & stencilled on a few markings here and there. Nothing too fancy – I still have 4 more to do & I genuinely don’t enjoy painting tanks!

That’s all for now folks, more of the sane for the next while 😫

D Company, 7th Mordion Regiment pt.8

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Greetings Terrans, been quite a while since I last posted, but I have been busy building tanks for 1st Platoon to tool around in… They took bloody ages, but are now primed and ready to paint up – more on them in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, I have also been working on some OG AdMech and the Servitors that allow Rogue Trader IG armies to access all the toys…

First up, two of Bob Olley’s Adeptus Mechanicus tech priests, dating back to 1989:

As with all Olley sculpts, these guys are very wibbly and fun to paint – just look at that robed guy!! I probably didn’t do them justice really, opting for a quick paint job rather than picking out all the detail & fancy highlighing, but still pretty effective I think.

Next we have five Stargrave ‘Automatons’ – a very nice plastic kit available by the sprue for a very reasonable amount. These make for great Servitors & are really nice minis in and of themselves! Plenty of spares as well, so I have a nice windfall of bionics added to the bitz-box.

I painted these to look well used & a bit ramshackle… While the 7th Mordion might be newly raised, their AdMech contingent is anything but!

And here they are together – funny how the new and the old work so well together:

Anyway, that’s it for now folks – time to get focused on some tanks!!