Alpha legion Dactylic cell 895 -Tactical squads

Whoa so, catching up is almost finished, after that i guess i need to actually accomplish something new. Pressure mounting an' all that.

Still on to what i've finished.

Below are my first squad. Squad ENA. 

180 pts 

This is the long awaited despoiler squad, which is simply a tactical squad that has replaced it's bolter with a close combat weapon. Meaning that you get your three attacks per marine per charge, which is supposed to be a wholly better alternative than simply shooting your opponent in the face. Personally i like the idea of infiltrating Alpha legionairres, waiting, hours, days, weeks. Patiently awaiting the one moment to charge the opponent, shifting them, and giving their legion a seemingly intangible advantage.

But... to be honest? ten are probably far too few to footslog. So i need to finish up a rhino to put my ten guys in.

I have two sergeant choices done, one with a hammer and Power dagger (Since the hammer and sickle....dagger, are two specialist weapons and thusly give +1 Attack) Or a power fist and melta bomb, when you need to smash some tanks.

I realize now that you can hardly see ANY of the transfers i meticulously worked on.  

This was actually the first squad that i finished. And actually served as a sort of milestone. Meaning that i actually had a FINISHED troop choice. ;_;


Next up is a more recent piece of work, and probably my favorite work so far.

I sat down this previous saturday and had the goal of finishing Twenty marines, one vexilia, one more sergeant and some odd extras. ToA= seven hours approximately. 

After you get the scheme down with the metallic parts, what you need to brace for is doing the details. I did it as follows

Silver 
helmet hose
chest fasteners
shoulder pad edges

leadbelcher
service studs
fans
rivets
"soft parts" on joints
gun parts (clip, feed,muzzle end part)

Vallejo painter copper 
"release" button for chest hoses
veteran markings on should pads
Gun parts (aim, barrel)
backpack hoses
fan

black
Gun "frame"
backpack exhaust markers.

Now for twenty models. this took somewhere between seven to eleven hours, with basing and decals included.
But i was still REALLY happy with the end results. It looks better in person, but i think that the pictures give a decent showing of the "sheen" i was looking for.

Another 295 points finished. And now i have the two mandatory troop choices done.

Presenting Squad DIO

295 pts 

Featuring nuncio vox and sergeance with combi-melta. 

Bonus picture. I actually managed to save the guys i did by brush. I am talking about these guys

MAKEOVER TIME

 And managed to remake them into the following.

Company support squad Volkite calivers 

225 PTS

I was happy with the result, particularly considering that i really wanted to reclaim my disastrous first attempts at the scheme, which i consider done, and in so doing, i now have a full squad of 20 S6 AP5 shots at 30". I will probably pop them in cover and have them hunt for infantry from the get go.

Now i have always imagined calivers as the red to the plasma blue hue. So i wanted the look of a weapon charging up, and i was actually given the scheme i was looking for from a really cool dude at the 30k forum named Iamomegon, so cudos for that. I also gave my support squads a black left shoulder pad, which i will use a new transfer for so as to distinguish them as tactical experts in their field.

Phew!

And that is that.

Next i'm really looking forward to doing some Destroyers, or seekers. But i'll probably need to start buckling down with my tanks.


I do have these two rhinos that i had earmarked for my Alpha legion in 40k. But i might just be tempted to try and put them in 30k.

But then i need to find a way to do something about the almost bubblegum blue i have going.

peace.

My 2016 commitment Alpha legion 30k Horus heresy

It all started with an innocous discusssion with my missus when we were planning the move we have in front of us.

"phew, you really have A LOT of that detailed resin model stuff ,her delineation of my FW stuff as opposed to my "mostly" finished spiky shit (dark eldar)"
" yeah, i was thinking this is the year i actually finish ALL OF it"
*long fit of hysterical laughter from my wife. MY star, the wind in my face*
"oh that's funny i thought 2015 was the year you finished ALL of it"
"oh, ok, but this is the year i finish all of THIS! (points to mechanicum, which she actually likes the look of since it is badass robots, and who doesn't like that)
*dubious glaring* 
"at least finish it in order, make a real commitment, with a realistic goal
"ok, fine this is the year i finish an actual army of my stuff from resin" 


And with those words i doomed me, and my family to an unbreakable geass to actually finish a playable 30k army for 2016.

Or not really, i mean, i'm not off to slay grendel or tame Enkidu. But still, i made a deal. And the deal is as follows. If i do NOT finish my army for 2016 (a minimum of 1850 pts) i will not be buying ANY hobby stuff for 2017. Except brushes.

No paint
no models
no codex.

So i'm going into this for realsiez. Tighten your pants. We are in for a ride.

Basically i figured that i could get approximately 200 points every month, i would have a buffer for of two months that wouldn't require painting. Which is good what with being there for my family. And also holiday excursions and, you know. WORK. TO feed my resin heroin habit.

January was off to a decent start. Until the airbrush broke down. Now, in harder and steenbecks defense, their support team answered really quickly, and with german efficiency gave me a guide to what to do. The problem was a difficult one to peg. But i finally fixed the issue. In March.

So For January and february i mostly did brush work. Which there is a lot of for MK II and MK III (rivets a plenty)

So right now i have closed Q1 of 2016. And i have approximately 700 pts ( i think) which is a good start. Hopefully i can keep it up for the rest of the year.

March was actually really productive. The reason was that i set off a week wherein i decided to be hobby centric. I put a reminder in the phone at five o clock each day, "Hobby time it chimed judgementally" and as soon as the kid was in his lil' bed, i sat down. Whether it was basecoating, basing or finding new ideas. It was hobby time.

As soon as i had a fifteen minute break somewhere. Hobby time.

Each time i was looking at my gaming rig and thinking of playing something. HObby time.

And i actually got a lot of work done that week.

I think that the mindset that you usually employ in single participant sports ( as opposed to team sports) aided me here. As the single minded determination really let me narrow down all my time on one thing.

So there we are. now on to what i have actually done so far.