Disruptor_fe404

Second model of 2024, second Intercessor ever! I head overseas on holiday for a few weeks on Saturday morning, but when I get back, I intend to get cracking on Intercessors #3 and #4!

Happy new year, frater! Some of you may remember that Dark Imperium - the esteemed boxset that introduced the world to Primaris space marines - was released in June 2017. With that fact and timespan in mind, I am proud to say that today, on the first day of 2024, I have completed my very first Intercessor. You'd think it would be more impressive after seven years, but nay I say, nay! This model is part of the failed half of my CtA23 vow, and also the first model in the Combat Patrol I'm building (it's the Dark Angels one, not that I bought it; I had all of the elements of that particular one in my pile of shame already!). So a humble beginning to what should be a pretty neat project.

Militarum mechanicus, at that! There's also this, which feels pretty... familiar? Can't quite put my finger on it... Hmm...

It was probably confirmed a while ago, but I probably haven't been paying attention: nice to see that Scouts still get a missile launcher, and in Kill Team no less.

And the final member of the Phobos Strike Team/Infiltrator Squad! Voxbreaking all the time. There's some paint on the Intercessors I vowed for CtA but I think there's going to be something of a gap between now and my next post!

Well, failed my CtA vow due to real life things. But here's what I did manage to get through! First up, the second 'Reiver' of the kill team, with a chest cross-draw and stowed grav-chute. The commsman, with tiny readout and signalling to his team. The saboteur, with a button he absolutely cannot wait to push. Currently working on the voxbreaker (who will likely never be used...) to round out the team.

Brothers, with great shame, I come before the stronghold to admit defeat: owing to various real life things and adulting responsibilities, I will be unable to complete my Vow before the 30th. My penitent crusade shall beign soon, no doubt.

I am now a whole 1 point into my Call to Arms vow! Somewhat behind where I need to be, but I am expecting the next few to be a little simpler to paint up. This is the sergeant for my Phobos Strike Team/counts-as Infiltrator Squad. I'm hoping the BIG KNIFE is enough of a tell for him to be acceptable as a Reiver sergeant (surely the space utilised by the sensor suite in the beakie helm can be repurposed for the sonic disruption that Reivers normally enter combat with?). I'm also going to keep on with my own little trend of a servo skull for every Phobos sergeant.

Codex: Vanguard Space Marines (ie: the booklet that came with Shadowspear) directly quotes Omnis as: "a blend of the heavier Gravis configuration and the lighter Mk X versions favoured by other Vanguard Space Marines units." I don't personally read that as being a variant, but I'd also concede one could certainly interpret it as so.

You do need a (unique per box) code from Leviathan to log a win in either direction though. And while the Marine half of the box may be worth more points, my local Nid players have pointed out to me that the Nid half is worth more money. Anecdotally to me, our local box buyers are just as likely to be Nid players who have sold the Astartes half (and kept the 'chaff' like the code pamphlet) as vice versa, so I doubt there is a need to tamper? I am a cynic though...

The Call has been issued, and the Sentinels shall not be found wanting! My (hopefully just the first of multiple?) vow for 2023's Call to Arms is this: That's the remaining 5 'Infiltrators' for my Phobos Strike Team/Infiltrator squad on the bottom row, as well as 5 Intercessors on the top row - one of which is a sergeant with a power weapon. And yes, the observant among you might have noticed, those are indeed Dark Imperium Intercessors there... These are actually the first Intercessors I'm painting! Only a few years behind everyone else...

I, Disruptor_fe404, architect of the Heliovault and Guardian of Antios, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint 5 Infiltrators and 5 Intercessors, for 10 points for the Glory of Adeptus Astartes and the Imperium Stronghold on or before 30th September 2023, or bear the badge of failure until years end. Starting photos to be edited in once I've got everything together! Fitting that the Anzacs are first to answer the call, I think! EDIT: Beginning photo:

$445 is what my FLGS quoted me, yup. Stings a bit!

For my homebrew, I use gold pauldron trim for Veterans, and the rank chevron on the right pauldron for squad leaders (you'll note these are independent but can be combined). Lieutenants and higher ranks have personalised heraldry on the right pauldron, replacing the rank chevron - though I am extending this practice to other 'notables', like Ancients and Company Champions, and may even do something similar for Bladeguard when I get to them.

Incursor Minelayer done. I used the saboteur parts from the kill team, as I quite enjoy the subtle up-armour elements. Though I suppose using an assault intercessor left arm is a much-less-subtle up-armour choice here! As mentioned before, the whole Phobos Strike Team is meant to be an Infiltrator Squad in 40k proper, hence the omni-scrambler backpack. I also opted to use a straight magazine on the oculus carbine to retain more unifying elements with the rest of his squad. With that, I'm 50% of the way through the Kill Team, but am going to change it up a little and paint up some terrain (and the intention is to do it quite quickly, but we'll see how that goes); I have the terrain from the original genestealer kill team set for KT2017.