In my last post, I owned up to being behind with my efforts to paint all the models in the Combat Patrols magazine series as they arrive. Now, I'll belatedly make the case for my own defence.
Essentially, it's that I was painting other 40k stuff, in order to use it playing 5th Edition 40k Apocalypse, as we'd planned for our big Christmas game (which, it turned out, was festively delayed due to snow).
So, to save some amount of face, here are some pictures of those things. It occurs to me that many of them have been sat around in pile of shame for close to two decades, so finally painting some of them is cause for celebration, even as it distracted me from painting new stuff. So that's something.
Inquisitor and retinue! Painting these was entirely critical, as it allowed me to include a land raider as a transport, and I definitely wanted that to happen.
Servitors! I think these are probably the oldest sculpts I've painted for a very long time - I'm reasonably sure they appear in the 2nd edition books somewhere, although I can't be bothered to check. In any case, they are still very nice models, and sit there shaming me for not having painted a tech priest to go with them. In the Apocalypse game they filled out the crew for an artillery platform.
A Valkyrie! When these first came out, I knew immediately had to have one, I think they're great models. I even went so far as to wire it up to have LEDs on the wings, but then, unaccountably, never finished painting it.
Even more unaccountably, when I came back to it I decided I wanted to go for a dark "special forces helicopter" scheme rather than the light grey "fighter jet" version I'd previously started. I also ripped out the wiring and LEDs as on second look the wires were far, far too obvious. I suspect it won't be my last ever go with lighting though, because I'm a glutton for punishment.
Having used this in two games now, I can say that the model is much more imposing than its stats in the game would suggest, so there's a definite psychological advantage to having it too.
Speaking of which...
Assassins!
Since Apocalypse allows you to ignore army selection restrictions, you can also ignore the "0-1 Assassins" rule, and therefore field them from all four temples.
Maths fans will have spotted only three in the photo, which is because I also had an Eversor Assassin painted, so he isn't new and doesn't qualify for a picture here. Also, he doesn't look great, so he might get a repaint at some point.
I've run out of things to say about these, but there was another photo, hence this sentence.
Grenade launcher Arbitrator fella! This guy actually didn't make it into the Apocalypse game, but I painted him, so here you are.
And yet, here's something that did make it in. Apocalypse practically requires super-heavy tanks, so here's mine, the technically super-heavy Malcador!
Mostly, what this did was trundle about slowly and miss things, but it's a satisfying chunk of tank to plonk on the table, so that's nice.
In my head this is associated with my Praetorians. Does that matter? No. But I've told you anyway. Main paint colour for this was Vallejo Green Brown, a piece of information that I'll find useful should I add another at any point.
It's a big boy. Have a look at it next to some Leman Russ tanks for scale:
In fact, have a look at the Leman Russes on their own!
I'm not sure I'd say these are technically "done" but they're "done for now" so that'll do. They were both painted very poorly in the distant past, so I stripped them and gave them a very quick paint job. It doesn't match the Malcador because I want these to be associated with my Cadians... which also desperately need repainting but that hasn't happened yet.
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| Statistically, if you're reading this, you're probably in this photo. |
And finally! To go with the Genesis marines I've been painting from the Combat Patrol magazines, I've painted a few more intercessors to edge them towards having enough troops choices to be legal in 5th edition. Not there yet, but it's getting closer...
