From GregB - Sons of Horus Apothecary in Mark VI Armour (5 Points)

Apothecary from the XVI Legion Astartes in Mark VI power armour.

More Space Marines? Not quite - but another Space Marine, yes. Here we have an Apothecary wearing Mark VI "beakie" power armour, painted in the fine and noble livery of the XVI Legion Astartes, the Sons of Horus. This figure is a conversion of various plastic bits from both the recent "Age of Darkness" Mark VI Marines, with the Apothecary bits from the older-era plastic command squad box. The embossed Legion symbol on the shoulder is courtesy of Forge World.

Medical care in the year 30,000 seems to involve cutting a lot of things - and this fellow is ready!

Now, you might think being a Sons of Horus Apothecary would the same as being the Maytag Repairman - you would be bored! After all, since the Warmaster's plans are always flawless, and the troops of his own Legion are completely stupendous and never fail to execute the Warmaster's flawless plans, who would need a medical professional? Rogal Dorn's dopey soldiers may excel at building sandcastles, but their pathetic military efforts would barely dent the seafoam green of the Warmaster's Chosen. Indeed, the only people getting hurt during any XVI Legion military operations are people who don't deserve medical care in the first place!

Lots of helpful fluids and devices on hand with this guy's equipment.

The Warmaster's strategical and tactical genius is matched, however, by his benevolence - he understands that the galaxy is very large and that even his Sons can't be everywhere they need to be. Because of this, victims of terrorist acts carried out by delusional pro-Emperor forces, the so-called "loyalists", can be found on hundreds of worlds in the Imperium. By provisioning his Legion has a strong cadre of trained Apothecaries like this fellow on hand, the Warmaster ensure that professional, chain-sword-enabled medical care needs is available to these unfortunate people at no cost.

This figure was fun to assemble, although it was not the smoothest process. The new range of "Age of Darkness" figures is built very much around the new generation of plastic Mark VI models, and these models don't exactly mix seamlessly with earlier generations of kit. All the same, we got there in the end, and it is nice for The Axehole to have this medical professional on hand in the extremely unlikely event any Marine under his command is wounded in battle...

Points-wise, this is just a single 28mm figure, so only five points. BUT - we get three more skullz! Because when you see skullz, you think health care...right?

Nice conversion Greg, it's good to see that the Warmaster is serious about health and safety. Just because your troops are practically invincible doesn't mean that you can ignore workplace regulations. It looks like he brought his own surgical implements with him too. Better safe than sorry after all, you never know when you might have to perform an emergency lobotomy on one of those crazed Imperial Fists.