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Spent most of Saturday morning painting up the rest of my Infinity scatter terrain:

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The Great Stone Dragons happen to be ancient McDonalds toys

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Enjoyed painting this 3D printed containers.

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Lovely use of such vibrant colours. They've really got some pop!

 

[Warden]

Finished a few more marines!



This brings the second tactical squad up to 15.

Really enjoyed how the medusa on the sergeant's shoulder pad turned out.



And here are the other 5:



Need to take a picture of the full squad, and both squads together!

Those are so good looking, fot right into a Lustria game as well. Do you know how the were called or when they were around?
I might want to try to find a couple

Grrr, !mrahil

Thanks! Quick good search of "great stone dragon mcdonald's toy" didn't come up with much, but I did find an original picture on pinterest.

Lovely use of such vibrant colours. They've really got some pop!

Thanks! I enjoyed how the colors work together on the desert board. Bit of pop, enough to add color, but the overall board looks great

Spoiler: More pictures from the game

My opponent's TAG was really strong in game, completely collapsed my right flank.

...and thanks @Nathan Weeres for all the likes!

 

[Killer Angel]

cool models and really nice gaming table!

 

[Warden]

Thanks @Killer Angel!

Converted up some legion HQ choices recently:



Delegatus, basically a ranking officer of smaller armies:



A legion Esoterist, hence his lack of weapons (he is using psychic powers to smite the enemy):

Spoiler: Esoterist

And a Master of Signals:

Spoiler: Master of Signals

Rather poor attempt at converting a power axe out of plasticard. I think it will look fine enough once painted.

 

[Killer Angel]

Rather poor attempt at converting a power axe out of plasticard. I think it will look fine enough once painted.

No doubt it will be improved, but all in all it's not that bad.

 

[Warden]

Took photos of the Horus Heresy collection last Sunday.

Legion Tactical Squad 1 led by Sergeant Ajaak:



Legion Tactical Squad 2 led by Sergeant Kanuur:



The banner-bearers (legion vexilla):



The sergeants:



Both squads along with my Leviathan Dreadnought and Legion Praetor:



They turned out good! Need to hurry up and decide what I want to do with these bases though .

Action shot:

 

[Killer Angel]

Took photos of the Horus Heresy collection last Sunday.

Out of curiosity, how many points could be that squad? how many do you still need to fit a standard HH battle?

 

[JTSleep]

Really nice! What is next? Do you plan to expand this force with something particular?

 

[Warden]

Out of curiosity, how many points could be that squad? how many do you still need to fit a standard HH battle?

Good question. A legion tactical squad bare-bones can be as little as 100 points for 10 marines with bolters and 35 points for a rhino. I have added a bunch of upgrades though. So far as I can tell with the current 2nd Ed HH rules I am sitting at the following:

• Tactical Squad 1- 205 points (15 legionnaires with bolt guns, sergeant with artificer armor, power fist, and plasma pistol, standard bearer/vexilla, and comms/nuncio vox)
• Tactical Squad 2- 235 points (15 legionnaires all with bolt guns and chain bayonets), sergeant with artificer armor, power fist, and plasma pistol, standard bearer/vexilla, and comms/nuncio vox)
  
• Legion Praetor/Iron Father- 215 points (all the iron father upgrades plus power ax and a combi flamer)
• Leviathan Dreadnought- 310 points (added the big melta gun and phosphex launcher)

Brings me to a total of 965 points. I hear standard size games are normally played up to 3000 points to get the armies nice and big. That is generally what I am working towards, regardless of the new version of the game on the horizon.

Really nice! What is next? Do you plan to expand this force with something particular?

I have a bunch more footslogging marines I want to put together with new special weapons (plasma, maybe some combi melta) plus a group of x10 breacher marines armed with shields already primed and ready to paint. And their Land Raider Proteus is ready to paint up with them took, and my recent legion character conversions.

Beyond that I have a few tanks I want to put together as well, along with some Contemptor Dreadnoughts that I am super excited to put together. They were some of my favorite minis to build for my deathwatch, not planning to go quite as over the top as I did for those dudes though!

Once I get the backlog a bit smaller I may consider branching out into some more breaches, terminators, and hopefully a super heavy tank or two!

 

[Killer Angel]

Once I get the backlog a bit smaller I may consider branching out into some more breaches, terminators, and hopefully a super heavy tank or two!

This already answers the question i would have asked.

 

[Warden]

Recent crop of Infinity minis for the Aleph faction!

Andromeda:

Spoiler: Andromeda- Infinity Aleph

Atalanta the sniper, and her Rabbit bot spotter:

Spoiler: Atalanta- Aleph

The Dragonlord.



This dude isn't an Aleph mini at all, rather from the Yu Jing (future-Chinese) faction. But I decided to paint him up as a member of my Aleph force to use as a proxy as an engineer/hacker or other mini.

Spoiler: Dragonlord Infinity

 

[Warden]

And here is Hector, leader of the Trojans in the Illiad reborn to serve the AI:



The little dude is a tinbot (in game just a marker for a hacking shield) but he reminds me of Marvin the Martian

Spoiler: Hector and his tinbot

Size comparison between Hector and the Hoplite, who has a very similar heavy-armor type.

And here they all are together!

 

[JTSleep]

Great work as always. Rabbit spotter and shield hack marker are quite adorable minis.

 

[Imrahil]

These are looking great again. Your Legacy models always look great.
The white paintscheme really does it for me

Grrr, !mrahil

 

[Killer Angel]

Gorgeous models!

 

[Warden]

Thanks! The Aleph minis for infinity have been fun to paint. Not far off from the official scheme, and the contrast paints make it pretty fast to complete a bunch of minis in a short time.

I also painted this TAG the same way, he is for the Nomads faction (and is the stand-in for Nimrod the Future Sentinel from the X-Men!).



Sadly he broke while I was at adepticon and haven't repaired him yet. Calling him done for now.

Spoiler: Nimrod (Stigmaton TAG from Infinity Nomads/Bakunin)

I am also calling my Go-Pod drone complete!



Not actually infinity minis here, big one is a 3D print and small one is from Maelstrom's Edge. The big drone has been a huge impact on the games where he doesn't die in the first turn!

Spoiler: Nomad's Go-Pod and Go-Bot vehicles

 

[Warden]

Anyone heard of BLKOUT?

Recently I have been painting up most of the UN minis I purchased at Adepticon.

UN Assaulters:

Spoiler: UN Assaulters

Also a preview of two other BLKOUT minis I am not done with yet:

UN Specialists with their camo cloaks:

Spoiler: UN Specialists

UN Reservists troopers of the 3rd Battalion:



I have been using some pigment powder for the bases, for the most part looks ok, I probably need to learn more about how to best use this stuff.

UN Pointmen:

Spoiler: UN Pointmen

And the second batch of inorganic troopers, the Golems:

 

[Imrahil]

Nice work on those minis.

UN models as in United Nations? Blue helmets?

Grrr, !mrahil

 

[Killer Angel]

UN models as in United Nations? Blue helmets?

i was thinking the same. It seems the most probable conclusion.

 

[Warden]

Yup the United Nations are their own faction, along with a US rangers faction, rogue Russian military contractor group, and some other mercenary factions.

UN became militarized in this timeline mostly centered on Europe, slanting towards authoritarian/big evil empire stuck between the remains of the Russian and US empires. Something about colonizing a newly found extra terrestrial planet Abol.

What I am saying is I should read some of the game lore, mostly I just liked the minis and really enjoyed painting them