twopounder

Thanks for the feedback. The stasis chambers are on the planet, not a ship. The recovered loyalists would generally be just skeletons in armor, except where they come across a more recent battle. No doubt fallen would be conveyed to The Rock, but its not the primary object of the Obsidian Angels.

Just trying to wrap it up to move on to the next project :) First time doing primaris, so I wasn't sure the best way to do sub assemblies. Can be a pain, but the gold is more annoying. Got a bit of a preview below :) Alrighty, this is more of a prototype than totally finished. I might do stronger gold and then wash over it. I wanted to avoid washing and use a more muted gold for just highlights, but I'm too old to make nice straight lines. Or paint in side them. Also ,the lighter gold keeps it from looking like chaos. Not sure what keeps happening to the links. Re-posted the images.

Always love to see ranks of TDA.

Progress! This group has the base, weapon and wash complete. Still need to complete holsters, shade and add trim.

I can see that at the start of the crusade. 1st legion gets them all (hence the massive sword focus) and by the time supply catches up, the other legions are like "nah, we got it figured out", and continue using whatever wargear they've started to specialize in.

My GW won't answer the phone

I thought so too. Bland options. They could have just added the mohawks as a piece to glue on existing helmets so they could at least retain the correct mark. You'd think they'd have more weapon options or at least fancy bits. This feels like a ghetto boarding squad.

Since I don't really play and stopped chasing meta, I've been much happier. I wouldn't put much stock into youtube videos, especially since GW is updating the rules more than once every 4 years now. Part of the fun used to be experimenting with builds to find fun combinations, not copying off the internet to smoke your opponent as hard as possible. Seems GW is following the 3 turn win formula of MtG though.

There are a lot of them, and they generally don't agree with the older codices. It can get a bit overwhelming. Here are some examples of the obsidian armor color. I think I'm happy with it.

The first legion was given significant weapons from Old Night and Vaults of Mars in secret. This includes Excindio Automata (Men of Iron, full on AI), rad wave weapons, stasis and micro-vortex weapons. Here is a quote You can find excerpts here and there in the HH material, but stuff they had was questionable when legions were in the middle of the crusade. In 40k, where astartes are already mistrusted by the inquisition, the possession of weapons like AI and gene-phages capable of wiping out entire planets without inquisitorial consent would certainly be a no-no. For the different squads, would make sense for older marks, but would be weird for mark x and bolt rifles. I have tons of unbuilt firstborn that I can kit bash though.

I was working on some initial painting and had a happy accident. The first model I painted was strong tone instead of dark tone (grabbed the wrong bottle). I kind of like the strong tone and bolter color, but I realized I messed up and switched before it was dry. Now I'm wondering if I should go back and do a strong tone wash over the others and use that one instead? I still like the ash color of the dark tone wash though. Quite the pickle.

Thanks. Getting pretty close on the building part, though I'm out of pill bottles so I'll probably paint the first batch here soon.

You should make one to put on the base of the larger one. Or use it has a watcher.

Here is the squad in its full glory

Ignore. I wasn't sure if we had to do one vow for each challenge. I've updated original to reflect I accepted all of them.