Thursday 29 December 2016

From GregB: More 30k Legion Marines (50 points)



Feel the love...more lads from the 12th Legion

My second submission is yet more Space Marines from Games Workshop's "Horus Heresy" setting.  As with my first submission, these are 30k Marines from the 12th Legion, the cute, cuddly and progressive chaps known as the "World Eaters". Whether your world is run by a deeply flawed totalitarian or exists as a fluffy, enlightened sunny-ways democracy, the World Eaters will appear in orbit and render the whole thing down to particles without pausing too long to consider "why". In this, they were ideal tools for the Emperor's so-called "Great Crusade", and even more useful to the Warmaster Horus when he launched his rebellion.


Terminator squad from the World Eaters

Wrecking everything in sight is a lot of work, even in the far future. The troops assembled here should make an important contribution to those efforts thanks to their heavy armour and/or absurdly large guns.


The unit Sergeant has a fancy sword, and the thing up top is supposed to be a grenade launcher, but perhaps is some kind of future go-pro system so Angron can have a record of any carnage these chaps are involved with


I need to find a way to make these power swords look fancier, but he'll do
The first part of this submissions contains a five-man unit of Terminators, Space Marines wearing even heavier armour than their regular foot-slogging buddies.  Teleporting to the battlefield to face down and BBQ opponents which give even regular Space Marines a moment of pause, the Terminator Marines with their big guns, power fists and bulky armour enjoy choice assignments in their Legion duties.


I quite like the double-drum ammo clips on the so-called "combi bolters"  and the chap pointing looks like he means business...
If you carried a big flame-thrower like this fellow, and your job is wrecking sh!t, why you would be on top of the world, so I did this fellow up to look like he's giving a fist bump - "fire FTW!"
While the deeply flawed rules mechanics of GW's 40k rules system make these figures real losers on the table, from the collecting and fun point of view, these are great models and entertaining troops to the deploy into games.  The models are plastics figures from GW's "Betrayal at Calth" box set/game, the model set that keeps on giving...


Heavy support squad with Plasma Cannons
The other part of this submission is a five-man unit of heavy support Space Marines.  The 30k setting has a vast buffet of devastating weapons to choose from, and the Space Marine Legions are well-fed in this respect.  These particular weapons are plasma cannons, heavy energy weapons useful for obliterating any opponents that might appear. And where the Terminators are not nearly as useful on the tabletop as their back story might imply, these chaps exceed the hype, wiping out entire groups of absurd loyalists with relative ease.  Your so-called "Emperor" can't save you now...


The 30k setting is about overkill - why shoot just one big science fiction gun at something, when you could shoot five of them at something?
These models are Mark IV armoured Space Marine models from Forge World, purchased years ago.  In the spirit of the Challenge, I thought it would be good to get to a long lost projects of years past such as this bunch, at least in the early stages...


Forge World decal sheet came in handy with these models
So in all this has ten 28mm infantry models, good for another 50 points towards my overall total and my 30k side duel.  

Up next? I'm hoping to keep in the same setting, but switch scales.  And also, thanks to Jamie, I am trying to figure out some character or vehicle for this force to be named or otherwise known as "Charmington" - so stay tuned for more on that...

More gritty and battle scarred troopers eh Greg? I love the way you paint these and really must try a similar look for something of my own at some point. This must be quite a sizeable force now and I'd really like to see a shot of everything together at some point.
50 points for your tally sir!
PS. Was "your world is run by a deeply flawed totalitarian or exists as a fluffy, enlightened sunny-ways democracy" a reference to recent political events in the US or is that just me?
Cheers,
Millsy

23 comments:

  1. I like the nice gritty battle-worn look of these guys. Nice work.

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  2. Ah awesome work Greg! I always chuckle at your descriptions you'd make a fine head of Horus propaganda department. I love the Cataphracti Terminators especially, they just look very bad ass

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    1. The Horus Broadcasting Corporation/Reseau des Horus - sounds like something I need to work into at 30k game. "Tune in for the latest on hope and change!"

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  3. More 30K goodness, It always looks so very good.

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  4. More of your great World Eaters, lovely.

    Ian

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  5. Those heavy weapons guys look like they mean business - very tidy work, Greg! Nice job on the ol' grimdark!

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  6. Dam those are some big weapons. Great painting as always

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  7. This did make me laugh! Then I remembered it also put me even further behind in the challenge..... great stuff as ever Greg, I have to agree with your assessment of the units, but I see you resisted the "oven-glove" upgrade on the plasma boys for when the weapons get hot ;)

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    1. Thanks Jamie. I doubt Antron would approve of the "oven glove" - with him in charge, these guys are lucky to even have helmets...

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  8. Fun post - love the termies. Nice work Greg!

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  9. Nice bunch of massively over armed psychopaths Greg! Hey don't knock sunny ways too much, charming and ineffective leadership is looking pretty damned good compared to recent political changes elsewhere!

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  10. Excellent work Greg! I especially like that you're not going down the 'all blood and gore' route with these.

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  11. Wow! These look really, really good. You've done a remarkable job on all of that white, though you've had plenty of practice now. These are gorgeous.

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  12. You did a fantastic job on these guys, with a coherent and effective colour scheme throughout. Bravo.
    I agree that they are nice models that deserve better rules - do you non-GW rules for these minis?

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    1. We have experimented here and there, and continue to, but even the flawed rules are tolerable as long as you are gaming with good friends and I am fortunate in that respect.

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  13. Great looking gritty marines, dirty great big plasma guns!
    Best Iain

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  14. Nice and those plasma cannons look mean as....

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  15. Love the look of these guys. That retro 30k armor is very cool.

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  16. Really fine termies, Greg!
    I'm beginning to think I really have to get the 30k games. I really like how the old RT weapons are just upgraded with extra details but still look just like they did in the day.
    Nice work on the blue and white armor too, they do look like they have been busy rampaging about! :);)

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  17. Lovely work Dude! This white and blue paint scheme is terrific and I like how you've weathered them up, showing battlefield use. My favourites have to be the Terminators. I love the horizontal slab shoulder armour - it looks very neo-Classical. Very cool.

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