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 😫
Greetings Terrans, and wonder of wonders – a second post from me in less than a week! Last time I mentioned that there were a couple of models missing from 1 Platoon – a Commissar and a Sanctioned Psyker. Well, I had some models in mind, so I got on with prepping and painting them on Sunday:
The Commissar is a 1989 sculpt by Mark Copplestone – I stuck a magazine on to his lasgun and modified the barrel to look more like a Bolter, and I added the sheathed sword to match the list. The painting was pretty straight forward, being mostly black (with a light drybrush of grey for highlights). I painted the trousers tan just to break up the mini a bit, and to reference the Blanche artwork I have been using as inspiration.
The Psyker is also from 1989, sculpted by Alan Perry. This guy was designed to have separate plastic IG arms back in the day, but I used some trimmed down spare arms from the OohRah set for continuity, with the addition of a pistol & sword. I went for green on this guy, mainly because we haven’t had much green so far in this project and I fancied a pop of colour, (plus green just seems right for these 40k psychic types). I had fun with the skin tone, making him look just a little bit unusual – appropriate for a sanctioned mutant.
Here’s a few more pics:
And here is the whole Platoon packed in their tray, ready for battle on the weekend :-)
Greetings Terrans, I hope you are all well. I’m happy to get this post out because it means that I have finished up the Command Section for my 1st Platoon & can therefore get them on the table! Good timing because next weekend is an old-hammer gaming event for a buddy’s birthday, so I get to put 1st Platoon straight into the meat grinder :-)
Here is said Command Section – Medic, Orderly, Las Cannon, Sergeant, 2nd Las Cannon:
They are pretty much the same as the rest of the platoon, (apart from a bit of difference on the Medic), but I did put some extra effort into the Company banner:
(Obviously inspired by this from the late John Blanche):
I also painted up the Platoon Captain – as with the rest of the Platoon, he’s pretty basic, but at least has a bit of a glow up on his plasma pistol & a touch of gold here and there, plus he gets a tactical rock to stand on:
So, at last, I can put the whole Platoon out!
Not the greatest models or individual paintjobs in the world, but they do have a quality of their own when assembled en masse like this, and certainly not bad for £2.15 per mini!
So what next for this project? Well, firstly I need to add two more models to 1st Platoon to be list-perfect – a Commissar and a Sanctioned Psyker (named as ‘Morin Dannel’ in the fluff in the top panel of the Knifton artwork). I have both built & will try to get them painted up for the weekend.
I also want to have this Platoon mechanised, and will be using some M113 APCs as the basis for 5 counts-as rhinos. The reason for doing it this way is that I can’t afford authentic period Rhinos and using new ones doesn’t feel right, but kit-bashing proxies from a contemporaneous kit feels very Rogue Trader to me. Per the list, I’ll also need either a Servitor or an AdMech tech adept for each APC, so a bit more shopping & some work to do there.
