Shadow Wars: Maelstrom, Tyrant's Legion (Truescale Baby)

[TheTrans]

Hey all,

I love the small scale of Shadow Wars and I figured with the Chaos Space Marine warband I could make a pretty nifty Tyrant's Legion amalgam.

Any way, I give you some pics of the WiP boys.

So there is the group photo, we have 5 Astartes and 4 Auxilia Inductees.

I have edited the GW CSM killteam into a Tyrant's Legion one, including changing fluff, marks etc, you'll find it here, so let me know what you think!

Anyway, some more in depths pics, first up here is a pic of the 4 Auxilia Inductees

The look I was going for was indeed forcibly inducted people. So on the right hand side we have some 'true' Auxilia, that look almost like professional soldiers, we have the one with an autogun and another bearing the Tyrant's Claw.

On the left we have some well...'volunteers'... I wanted the guy on the far left to look like he is running from something, as he really doesn't want to be fighting, I've also put him in quite plain clothes to account for being a citizen, the green stuff is an arm band that will be blue with the Tyrant's Claw on it. The guy on the middle-left is just an old dude that has been given a big ole blade and old school shield so he can at least maybe shiv an unsuspecting victim haha...

Next up the power houses, we have.

This will most probably be the leader, or 'Demi-Centurion' who will have +1 Initiative (I've renamed marks to 'Non-Codex Indoctrination' so you have: Retaliator Cohort (Khorne), Shaprias Experiment (Nurgle), Scion of Valthex (Tzeentch), Operative (Slanesh) and Leadership Cadre (Undivided). I've went with a more 'tacti-cool' look to the marines, wanted them to be less rage-chargey and more sneaky, have also given them plenty of kit (mainly around there butts) to look like they are working unsupported.

I realise I said less rage-chargey, but there always has to be one, wanted this guy to look like he is really swinging that heavy arse chain sword at some people, logically he would have the NCI: Retaliator Cohort.

This is my first specialist, I thought it would be cool to have him slung the flamer and to be firing at range with his pistol. The little arm shield is just to look cool, but could represent him being a Scion of Valthex, for the 5+ invuln and upgrade the bolt pistol to 'kraken' bolts later on . Sculpting marine hand is super hard, not as good as what some of the amazing people out there can do, but should be serviceable!

This is my other Specialist, went for the full blow saunter through a hail of fire sort of look, so logically he will be at +1 toughness to take account into all the armour he is rocking. This is actually the first guy I did for this kill team and really set the scene for the rest. Very much no-frills which always to me struck me as how the Astral Claws roll.

Finally the terminator. This is the first true scale terminator I have tried and I'm super happy with how he came out. I think he looks different enough from normal terminators to tie him in with the kill team, while still clearly being a terminator. I have given him a little bit more 'shiny' stuff (The 'belt buckle shield', Chains and gnarly knife) just to make him stand out a little bit more, that and lets be honest, this bad boy has is kicking out fear, so make him fearsome! Will maybe in the future magnetise his arms, but for the time being a Storm Bolter and Power Fist should serve.

Finally a line up so you can see scale. I've obviously done plentY of true scale Astartes before, but never a termy and I am super happy with the size of him. A lot of true scale termies are 'extended' normal terminators so they are a bit taller, but logically terminators shouldn't be too much taller than a normal marine, as they are/should still be the same size inside, but they should be crazily more imposing and I think this guy does the trick!

Any way, going to get them undercoated and what not tonight, will try and put some updates up soon on where they are heading.

Let me know what you think of the models as well as the Tyrant's Legion list and see if I need to change any fluff.

Cheers,[/size]

Nick

[Fredrik]

wow!! great work The Trans

first one in my eys that has sucseeded with truescaleing a terminator to a truescale/artscale terminator

 

imperial out.

 

 

[TheTrans]

Thanks Fredrik, pretty happy with him, will now need to see how I go about painting them all haha. 

[hushrong]

The Tyrant's own look awesome.

 

Definitely cool to see a true scale terminator!

[TheTrans]

Thanks brother!!

Really live the Tyrant's Legion and the Astral Claws... LIke don't get me wrong, I feel Huron went a bit far, but at the start it was for the right reasons, is super tragic, but awesome as well and to me sums up humanity in 40k.

Any thoughts on the rejigged list's fluff etc?

[TheTrans]

To the greater community, does anyone know what blue is closest to the astral claws shoulder pad blue? I have like 6 odd blues, but none seem correct :/?

[darknation]

You'd want a blue that goes well with silver, so I'd check out whatever colours GW used to paint their High Elf range.

[TheTrans]

Good thinking mate!

[Luna707]

Beautiful! That terminator is absolutely phenomenal!

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I recently did a search to find a good blue for my upcoming Astral Claws and the original color was Regal Blue, which fits them perfectly. Unfortunately, it's OOP and Kantor Blue is the new replacement color that's not quite the same.

[TheTrans]

Thanks Luna!! I'm beyond happy with the bugger!!

Hey BCK (may of trawled through your blog the other day, amazing stuff!!) that is a super large pain, do we know of any other brands that get the colour across?

Also as an aside, I made this up today, as when I get on the hobby/theme horse, I go all out!!

 

 

Will knock them out with a 1" hole punch, then attach them to those 'bottle cap adhesive' stickers things, they turn them into great tactile and cool looking markers that should last decently!

Cheers gang!

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

The Vallejo Game Color paint line was supposed to be a copy of GWs old paint line (Regal Blue, Boltgun Metal, Scab Red, etc) and their version of it is Imperial Blue, but I looked at a bottle at a local shop and it was a lot more purple than I cared for. I'll probably end up mixing my own shade and storing it in a bottle.

 

If I could find a good supply of Regal, I'd go with that, but the bottle I have is about 2/3s full and is a number of years old already. It's a shame because it was a great color - not too dark, not too light (to be confused with Ultras), and it had a touch of grey to it that was really nice.

[darknation]

coat d'arms made the original GW paint line. You can pick up a pot of regal blue analogue here.

[Vairocanum]

Brilliant looking true scale! My favorite is the marine with the auspex, looking forward to seeing more!

[Marshal Haduwig]

Wow! and now I look at my own astral claws and can't help feel slightly disappointed.

 

These are incredible mate I love true scale marines and you've done an amazing job with the poses as well. Can't wait to see these painted.