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I got in the bone details using zandri dust that was washed down with agrax to get a bit closer to steel legion drab imitation, then karak stone and finally flayed one flesh just on the very tip of each horn. After that I used a really light coating of abaddon black on the lightning claws which i highlighted with runefang steel. I left it deliberately thinner than usual so the metal underneath would show through. I really need to find a way to make my highlighting neater. Is it just better and cleaner to highlight while the model is still in pieces so it's easier to get a good angle on the edges?

The red on those Terminators looks outstanding!

Played the tourney. Came in 3rd. Funny enough my opponent was a guy I played at the top table in my last tournament and had similar results. Ill post pics at some point. I didnt win best painted, grrr. I think they didnt want to give me both the prize for 3rd and best painted.  Im not going to turn by turn these. Game 1: Vs Knights I expected this one to be tough, He had a Crusader, 3 armingers, and a Helverin. He got buttloads of rerolls for hits and wounds. Mission was a typical mission to capture objectives. He set two armingers on the right, one on the left, crusader in the center and helverin on the home.  I set my infiltrators on the left objective, eliminators on home guarded by a Ballistus behind a building. Vindy, Ballistus2, and Shrikes team on far right corner and another assault intercesor squad where I thought they were safe behind a building. He got first turn. He moved everything forward. Managed to get Ballistus2 barely in LOS of one of his armingers melta lances and did 6 damage. The left side arminger managed to move to the far edge of the board and instead of going for the infiltrators, he went for the assault intercessors and just barely got the edge of a base in LOS and killed three. On my turn the infiltrators booby trapped the left objective and advanced away. The left infiltrators bounced out on his fight phase. I managed to drop the left arminger to 1 wound with Ballistus1 and eliminators. B2 and Vindy dropped the close Armi on the right to 3 wounds. I made his rotate ion shields strat cost an extra cp after that.  Shrike held position. He hurt B2 down to 3 wounds when he charged with his close Army and did decent damage with the follow on arminger to the vindy. Lone op to the rescue, he wasnt able to hit the infiltrators by .5" with his crusader so the Ballistus took the brunt of both it and the helverin. He charged the infitrators who repositioned back 6". I think I lost B1. On my turn b2 backed out and the vindy managed to kill the follow on right side arminger with its storm bolter and charge and tank shock the wounded one and did a total of 2 damage. The eliminator sergeant after the Fusils failed to wound, got  round through and killed the left arminger. On his turn I forget what happened, I know he did heavy damage to the vindy and I pulled shrike out. I pulled some good secondaries and my 2 man jump intercessors landed on right objective and investigted signals. Shrike and co landed on the opponent's home objective giving me 8 more. My Ballistus did heavy damage to the Helverin. On his turn he killed the Ballistus and moved the Helverin back to home, killed 2 intercessors with shooting and another in close combat, Shrike and the powerfist sgt finished it off. His turn 5 he tried to get my home objective by charging the eliminators but failed the charge when they scooted off. I got two more secondaries. FInal was 85 to 56. Not sure how he got 56 but oh well.   Game 2: Vs Dreadmob Orks Corner deployment He had a morkanaught, a gorkanaught,, a bubblechukka, 2 mobs of grots, 3 big mechs, and a mob of boyz. I knew I had this one. He got first turn and moved the two naughts forward. I started my infiltrators on the far right objective. His shooting surprised me and he got LOS to one of my assault intercessors with the anti-infantry naught and killed 3. That was his high point. I boobytrapped the infitrator objective and moved forward. I oathed the anti-vehicle naught in the middle. The two man intercessors jumped to a hidden location on the left side objective. EVerything opened up and killed the AT Naught which also killed 3 boyz. Those were further whittled down by the infiltrators to 4 + a mek. Infitrators charged and killed the grots. He tried to recover but I killed Naught 2 the next round along with the boyz. Shrike landed behind his objective but failed his charge twice. He almost just conceeded but decided to stick in. I won 85 to 24.   Game 3 Vs Bully Mob, short edge to short edge. Sweep and clear, and SERVO SKULLS. UGGG He had a mob of Nobs with a warboss, 2 mobs of Meganobz with mekboy, 3x3 bikerz, grots. In short I cleared the bikers and the grots, I captured his home, and ended in control of 3 out of 5 objectives. I could not scratch the mega nobz. I couldnt just ignore them like I did the crusader in game 1. He had waaagh for two turns, he had  a 2+4++. 3W. bring a model back AND heal a wounded model each turn. EACH UNIT. Plus a feel no pain during his two Waaagh turns. I tried one turn to fire a vindicator and a Ballistus at an oathed meganob mob and killed 1. This was frusttrating. I got crap for secondaries despite capturing his home objective, wiping all of his action monkeys. At the end when it didnt matter, I sent both full strength assault intercessor squads, the Ballistus at an oathed, down to 4 guy squad. I killed 2 including the mortals from charging. So my final score was 26 counting 10 points for painted. He had 62 and was killing me on primary. The problem was sweep and clear requires you to hold an objective in the command phase to sticky it. My army doesnt survive by standing still and his big bricks of meganobz could just roll with the servoskulls with impunity. There is no Primary score for holding objectives.   This battle was like the battle between the Mountain and the Dornish prince in Game of Thrones. I could dance all around him and take swipes here and there but couldnt comes to grips with him. So the tournament ended with me at 3rd place. Some how the ork player from game two got 4th place. My opponent in game 3 got 2nd despite us being top table going in.

I have no plan to "use it as". It will probably end up as an objective marker. Unless I proxi it as a Manipulus with Magnarail, or a Skratos with Transuranic arquebus. I am not really convinced by the latter and I already have enough Manipulus... So, one in one, it will spend most of its time on shelf and will be seldomly used and only in very specific contexts (scenario...). Objective marker is the most probable case of use I see in fact.  

what are you using it as? (the gun)

I like the head and arm swap.