Well, it's now over a month since the last update, which is really bad in the grand scheme of things, for all of us. Myself and Harry (sorry, Vangar as he will insist we refer to him) have both been busy in our own way.
Myself, a bit of painting and building the last FW order which was: 5 Cataphractii, 5 Justaerians, a Demios Rhino, a Demios Predator, a Land Raider, one Fellblade, the new assault weapon pack and some weathering powders. I have never seen as big a box as that one, seriously it was fething huge!
Vangar however has been very steadily working his way through that roster image. As it currently stands he's done 10 members of the 20 man tacticals, 6 of the tactical assault squad (the ones with the knives), the 5 melta marines and the 5 missile launcher marines, as well as a legion champion made from FW's event boarding marine from a few years ago, who looks reasonably cool, just less so compared to the marines around him. Which is bloody impressive work in just over a month.
But enough about him, this isn't his log, or is it? No, no it's not, it's mine. So Night Lord updates it is.
1st legion Rhino, and it's interior. It's the second interior I've done, one on my 40k marines and one here. This one is way better, mainly because I took my time on it, and also because I painted the lenses properly with reflections and not just a single colour. As for the cream, Harry thinks it is wrong for the Night Lords and that it should be dark. Well, it's his opinion but I take the view that the Legion serfs probably repaint the interior between battles, hence why it's clean and also the Terrans might not want everything dark, they won't have the same low tolerance to light that the Nostramans will have.
But the bottom line is it's my army and I'll do as I want, at least until Massacre comes out (the next FW HH book, if you don't know). When it does, probably everything I've done will be invalidated but I've said that before.
XIVth Company's Chaplain. Nothing too special, it's another one of my kitbashes, made from a mix of FW and Chaos space marine bits. He's got MkIII wrist armour which was f***ing annoying to cut off the original model without damaging them, but I just about managed it, only a slight nick on the left one. I plan to do a similar thing when it comes to making XIVth Company's captain and second in command, one of them will have them, not sure which yet.
An Atramentar Command squad, made using FW's excellent Justaerian models with a bit of fileing off of the more overt Eyes of Horus. You may be able to see that they still have a few Eyes on them but these are the Eye of Terra, which is completely fine for all legions pre-heresy, Horus' has little sharp bits. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. In case you can't see, the banner is a load of skulls on chains, I felt it fits more with both the VIIIth Legion and with the Atramentar than a rag on a stick. Background wise, I see them as not part of 1st Company as such, they'll be drawn from there but serve as a retinue for VIIIth Legion representatives or key Imperial personal. Though what sort of diplomatic missions would require a bodyguard like this?...
As of yet, they are not a legal unit simply because you need a terminator Praetor to give a command squad termi armour and I currently don't have one, ideally I will by this time next week.
The second of my Atramentar squads, same overall loadout as the first squad except with a heavy flamer. Having built one unit already, I knew what to expect with these guys and make better poses as a result. They've had one game so far (see Blood on the Sand), only the chainfist survived the battle but they took down one entire flank almost on their own, so I'm pretty happy with them overall.
My new Land Raider, currently named "Primus", no prizes for why. It will likely take the lead in my planned Armies on Parade this year, being XIVth Company and armour support moving through the streets of Osmium. Hence commander's pose, signaling the tanks behind to stop while the way is cleared. It will all make sense soon when I get the board and start work on it. It was going to have a completely painted interior but annoyingly, the ramp mechanism got ballsed up so that plan got scraped. Pity, it would have looked awesome ideally.
"Halt!"
And I have painted stuff!!! This is almost unprecedented, at least at the moment. But I have Black Library Live and a forum meet-up game at Warhammer World next weekend so I aim to at least have a couple of units done by then, probably the melta squad and although unlikely, perhaps one of the tactical squads I've sprayed blue so we'll see how that goes.
Nothing really new here, the termi squad you first saw in October (Yes, it has taken that long) now with paint. The flash makes them look too bright, they're darker in real life, just as they should be.
As usual, C+C's welcome. Now that something is painted, you may have an excuse to do so. Next up, the large FW contingent I will add after next weekend, got to love having the complete range literally at your fingertips. Oh and the Fellblade from the last one, still need to build that, hmmmm.
I also plan to make a couple of VIIIth Legion company rosters, so you can see how I imagine the Night Lords to be organised. Currently, it'll be one of XIVth Company at Osmium, one of the Assault Companies and probably one or two others including my idea of 1st Company. Since I would guess at differing organisation dependent of company specialism, it make sense to do so for completeness/ fleshing out. It depends on time really and how well I can make my ideas work on paper.
Once all those models are done, next purchases are just the remaining few rhinos, a few other bits and bobs and realistically with that, the army is done for the foreseeable future. Unless Forge World throws a spanner in the works, as they surely will. Damn Massacre.
I hate them. They make me cry.
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