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.

Anyway, that’s all for now – more to follow!