BrotherCaptainArkhan

Thanks guys! I'm really enjoying this project. Last in the Kill Team is the Veteran Sergeant leading the Sons of the Condor force. I've got plans to do other leaders - a Captain, and a Librarian (who might have to be proxied as I don't think they're in Kill Team yet) - but for now, this will be my team's leader during intro games. I went back and forth a lot with the pose and settled on a 'watchful rest' pose, which I think communicates gravitas better than some of the more active stances I'd played with.

So I was looking at the assembled models last night and decided I wanted the last member of the Kill Team (before the Command model - whoever that is) to be a regular Tactical Marine. Naught but a bolter, guts and glory. I also went back and looked at the Deathwatch veteran, Brother Sur'gesh, and decided his weapon just didn't quite cut it. I wanted something that reflected the Devastator veteran's service in the Deathwatch, with just a tinge of the weird esotericism that comes with a posting in the mysterious organisation. So I added a purity seal first of all, to give the sense that the weapon has been personalised a little by its owner, and added on an extra laser designator on the side of the gun as well as, somewhat anachronistically, an underslung grenade launcher. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to represent this in Kill Team, so I'm just keeping it for the 'rule of cool'. I figured it could be used to launch a smoke grenade or other type of utility grenade or something.

Thanks very much! I'm really enjoying the project. It's nice being back in the Dark Millennium. Next up - two more brothers, this time both veterans - one of the Deathwatch, and one of the Sternguard. The Deathwatch veteran will be run as a Heavy Gunner in Kill Team, and the Sternguard vet, running an unusual sub-pattern of Stalker bolter, will be an Intercessor Gunner.

Thanks guys. Da'rok is now done, joining his brother Ma'ingan as the two Assault Intercessor proxies in Thunder Cadre. Da'rok will be the grenadier specialist - I didn't want to Flanderise too much so went with the red krak grenade as an easy identifier on the tabletop.

Thanks! Yes he is, wouldn't post others' work without their permission. Yes, the Index sizes up if you click on it but I'd already made it fairly spontaneously so didn't fancy reformatting for a text post. I was going to try and recreate the old Index Astartes style but couldn't find much in the way of templates, so made my own. All in the name of fun, at the end of the day. Thank you! I'm really enjoying the project so far - it's a little surreal to be in the Dark Millennium again but it's great fun. Ma'ingan's brother Da'rok is next on the paint table:

Long, long time since I've posted on the B&C. I used to play and collect 40k about a decade ago, some might remember my old Sons of Tyr log and "A Lesser Son of Greater Fathers", my Heresy Ultramarines log. I've been enticed back in to doing something in the 41st millennium again by the advent of the Astartes short (and its sequel), the Secret Level episode and Space Marine II. Absolutely wild growing up with a hobby as niche as Warhammer and now seeing it in the proverbial mainstream. Anyway, without much ado I've been looking at jumping into some narrative games set in the modern 40k setting. I don't know yet what my group is going to use for a ruleset - we're pretty narrative-heavy and focussed largely on non-GW games - but Kill Team has gathered some interest, not least of all for the smaller scale and the chance to tell some character-focussed stories. My offering will be focussed around a Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes bearing suspiciously familiar heraldry who find themselves on the wrong side of the Cicatrix Maledictum...and more than likely, facing the very real prospect of their own mortality as a host of existential threats pile on their doorstep. So rage, rage against the dying of the light, and let fly the Sons of the Condor...

Haven't really been feeling 30k for...well, years now, but on the spur of the moment the other day a friend got me into Epic and kindly donated a load of minis. I faffed around a bit with a quick speed paint and a few minutes later I had a tactical detachment painted up. I really enjoyed the couple quick games of Epic I played, so who knows, could be a fun project to get into.

Yep, all 100% Anvil kits, with the tiny, tiny exception of an OOP BFG antenna on the leader's rifle. I bought one of Anvil's "miscast packs" a while back, and it came with so many bits which were perfectly serviceable with a tiny bit of care - mostly just mould lines and flash. Strongly recommend grabbing one if they ever run them again.

Hey mate! Thanks, it's good to be back :) Been years haha. Sorry I fell out of touch. Hope you've been keeping well and active. Still need to go back and check through all those old threads... I'll drop by the Munda forum in a bit. The B&C's changed a bit since I last visited regularly. Hot on the heels of that last post I actually have another one to show off - this guy owes a lot to Dune 2021, as that blade might indicate. I was going to add shoulder pads but makes him a bit too heavy. I prefer the idea that he's sneaky up until it's time to start blasting. To be honest, I might still rip off the shotgun hand and give him a second CCW. But I really have no idea what options will be like and I just need to try some games. Ideally, I would like this warband to feel a bit like desert skirmishers focussed on outflanking, traps, harassing with snipers etc, rather than straight up in your face dakka dakka... So I guess I'll run them as Orlocks, until things with the Ash Waste Nomads become clearer. http://i.imgur.com/xGclxjgl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g3B5ac0l.jpg

Cheers! Had some fun with the next of the Ash Wasters. A young sniper, using a bolt-action sniper rifle from days long passed. Playing around with barbed wire for basing interest - going to keep them fairly sparse befitting the Ash Wastes, but I'll find some tiny tufts of rad-resistant grass to decorate with. http://i.imgur.com/iCfjKT0l.png http://i.imgur.com/uG9OjDLl.jpg

Thanks guys! Pearson, nice to 'see' you again! Hoping to share an update in a couple hours...

Well, it has been a long time since I've been here. I can't remember exactly the last time when I was regularly participating here - probably not since at least 2017 at the height of all the Heresy stuff. I've remained fairly active in wargaming over the last couple years although entirely outside of the Games Workshop stable. I created a grimdark, low-fantasy medieval warband for use in other wargames and have had a great amount of fun filling out their own lore and theme, and ever since doing that I found creating my own universe so much fun I stayed there for a while. I've been tempted back into sci-fi by various things - Dune 2021 was a big encouragement, as was rediscovering old favourites like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, the Culture series by Iain M. Banks, the Altered Carbon series by Richard Morgan, and last but not least, the art drawn by Craig Mullins (shown below) whose concept art and sketches have been an influence since I was a kid. A few days ago I had the idea to pull some of the sci-fi themes floating around in my head into a cohesive project which could fit into a multitude of universes - intentionally light on the fluff side of things, but unique enough that it's still fun to make. So, last night, after discussing Necromunda with some friends, inspiration struck and I made a mercenary/outlaw type who looks like he's been spending too much time in the Ash Wastes of some far distant backwater planet. Perfectly suitable for Necromunda, Kill Team, or even 40k (if I ever pick it up again - 9th edition seems a bit of a shopping trolley ruleswise). And from what I hear, the Ash Waste Nomads are hotly rumoured to be the next release for Necromunda, so it seems the perfect time to go and visit the hive world to end all hive worlds! Here are some examples of Craig's artwork, which specifically motivated me to get kitbashing for this project. http://i.imgur.com/z32jlG6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tZCULNk.jpg And here's the man himself - the first of many rangers of the Ash Wastes: http://i.imgur.com/fliqETZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DZ7qq4I.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0PQ71qJ.jpg That rifle took about an hour to assemble - here's a pic taken before I straightened out some of the parts: http://i.imgur.com/UgShBy6.jpg Thanks for reading! Nice to be active on the B&C again and hopefully I'll remain keen enough on this project to see it through to something approaching completion.

Thanks for the welcome back chaps. Still not quite 'back' in the swing of 30k (or 40k for that matter), but it's a nice trip down memory lane. Cheers, it seems to suit the Heresy aesthetic really well. The resin bits, as far as I remember, are from the WHW-exclusive Command Land Raider. Got all the tacticals + dreadnought ready for basecoating:

Thanks, guys. I'm honoured + surprised in equal measure anyone remembers me - seems like 3 years since I was last around here. Real life happened, plus fantasy wargaming grabbed me in a big way, so the recent return to 30k is something of a surprise. Hoping to add a couple squads to the XIII Legion from my old bits box, probably not a lot more than that. I did throw together the first half of a 20-legionary tactical squad - with a close-up shot of the Sergeant, Vexillifer and Vox specialist. Victrix's Early Imperial Roman Legionary plastic set is a godsend for XIII Legion players!