Veteran Sergeant does True Scale + Blackstone Fortress

[Veteran Sergeant]

So the mad Colonel Drake's retinue is coming along.
 

 
Sergeant Taddeus
 

 
 
Trooper Vorne, admittedly the easiest and least ambitious of the proxies
 

 
Navigator Locarno (still very WIP, obviously)
 

 
Drake's personal bodyguard, the Kroot Hunter Grehk
 

 
Troopers Rein and Raus
 

 
 
Imperial Robot UR-205 needed another bath.
 

 
And finally, the mad Colonel himself. I liked that shorty bolter carbine so much, I made another one.  But split in half and filed down to be more human sized with the smaller bolt pistol barrel.
 

 
I had started on Amalynn Shadowguide using an old metal Eldar ranger I had, but didn't think it was dynamic enough, so she's getting redone.

Edited April 7, 2020 by Veteran Sergeant

[Veteran Sergeant]

Took forever to get most of the paint off, but here is UR 209, ready to stomp into Blackstone Fortress.  It was fun to finally have a use for this model again.

 

 

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Will you use the assault cannon-wielder as a Space Marine Dreadnought, an AdMech war robot, or...?

[Veteran Sergeant]

He's for Blackstone Fortress, as a proxy for the robot.  I guess technically he's a legal Space Marine Dreadnought proxy too, lol.

[BadgersinHills]

Good to see an old model being used for gaming. Look forward to seeing them painted!!

[Veteran Sergeant]

So, at long last, I'm back to Warhammer 40K models.  Or, at least, Games Workshop models.

 

About a year or so ago, I bought a copy of Blackstone Fortress and its Escalation expansion without the models, for about $25 each.  I'd started this project, but set it aside a couple times to work on other stuff.  Fifty-plus custom models are a lot to do, and I had several Historicals projects, Rangers of Shadowdeep, and the new Aliens Another Glorious Day in the Corps board game.

 

So, let me present to you the first completed members of my proxy crew of Explorers, led by the archaeotech-obsessed rogue Imperial Guard colonel Janus Drake, his Kroot bodyguard, the combat construct UR-209, a pair of crafty Squat troopers, the Stormtrooper sergeant Taddeus with his gun-servitor, and the insane Specialist Vorne.

 

[deathspectersgt7]

Cool. Doing something similar. But with a few added twists.

[sockwithaticket]

Cool to see alt-takes on the box contents, many of them with pleasingly retro models as their base. That Col. Schaeffer model has oodles of character.

[Veteran Sergeant]

Okay, so back to Blackstone Fortress with the rest of my Explorers

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by Veteran Sergeant