40k and 30k Projects: Imperial Fists dream of metallic yellow sunsets - Part 1

Finally back into the hobby again! It has been a good 6 month hiatus inflicted with a move and job change but lets get back into it. I have been inspired by the smashingly good Dorn release from ForgeWorld and keen to bulk out an Imperial Fists army that can be used in both 30k and 40k

After experimenting with metallic paint jobs and techniques I must say I am very partial too the spray silver and then wash camp. I lack the space for an airbrush friendly area currently so away we go with washes again. I had been scouring the internet for ideas to

make a very unique Fists paint theme and came across a gent called Corai on the B&C forums back in 2014 who pushed out some fantastic conversions and was able to pull off a brilliant metallic yellow scheme. So in true internet fashion I stole his hard won wisdom and decided to apply it to my dudes.

I had a whole bunch of Cataphractii Terminators spare so I decided to build a Terminator only force to accompany Dorn when he finally arrives on my door. I started with 3 squads and 2 HQs and will expand from there

Painting is super easy for this scheme:
1) Spray silver
2) Wash with nuln oil
3) Wash the panels you want yellow with Casandra yellow wash 1 layer

4) Fill in your black and red sections to taste

5) Wash the panels you want yellow again

6) A thin coat of yellow glaze on your yellow panels

 

7) Fill in details and weather accordingly to taste

Lots more work to do on these guys yet like all the faces, weapons and lenses, will do an update once they are table ready!

Horus Heresy 30k Briscon Trip Report: Dark Mechanicum Ascendent and finally fully painted!

The Briscon 30k event has come and gone! 2 days of a narrative 30k event run by the lads at Pubhammer Brisbane. I decided to attend this event right at the last minute and really only had about a week and a half to list crunch and then paint and assemble what I was going to take. I settled on a my Dark Mechanicus as they are the army I had been working on for a while and then decided to back away from reductor or cybernetica lists for something different. 

 

As you can see in the pic I still brought a fairly mean force. Watching some of the guys attending post on various social media the armies they were prepping was an indication of our strong QLD meta with lots of big transports and LOW choices.

This was the list I took in the end:

++ The Age of Darkness (Mechanicum: Taghmata Army List) [2500pts] ++

-Magos Prime: Abeyant, Archmagos Prime, Chainfist, Cortex Controller, Cyber-familiar, 4x Cyber-occularis, Jet Pack, Malagra, Paragon Blade, Rad Furnace, Rad Grenades

-Secutarii Hoplite Phalanx: Arc Lance, Kyropatris field generator, Mag-inverter Shield, 19x Secutarii Hoplite, Secutarii war plate

Secutarii Alpha: Arc Lance

Triaros Armoured Conveyor: Blessed Autosimulacra, Smoke Launchers

-Thallax Cohort : Ferrox, 3x Heavy Chainblade, 3x Thallax

-Thallax Cohort : Ferrox, 3x Heavy Chainblade, 3x Thallax

-Ursarax Cohort: 3x Power Fist, 6x Ursara

-Vultarax Stratos-automata [165pts]

-Vultarax Stratos-automata [165pts]

-Myrmidon Destructors: 2x Myrmidon Destructor, 2x Volkite Culverin,

Myrmidon Lord, Irradiation Engine

Legio: Taghmata Omnissiah

-Mechanicum Indentured Knight Atrapos

The Vultarax were a new unit for me as I had never had them painted for a game until now so it was a crash course on using them and the Hoplites I had only used very sparingly in Zone Mortalis. As it turned out both of those units are crushingly mean when used correctly.  I think in any future games I will take 10man Hoplites and 1 Vultarax just for fairness sake.

The event was narrative based so it was Traitors Vs Loyalist and you organized your own opponents on the day. While we had set missions it was a very chill and laid back atmosphere and everyone ran with that theme the whole event. At the end of the event I had walked away with 1 draw and 4 wins and top spot. Best painted went to Michael from Eye of Horus podcast fame. Traitors won overall and the results uploaded into the AUS30k site for continued campaign tracking. Big shout out to the Pub-hammer lads for organizing and running a very sucessful and smooth event. 

Enjoy some pics of the even/armies and if you are in Brisbane next year roll over and check out Briscon for sure.

 

And as a bonus here is some shots of the INSANE Lord of the Rings Table that happened on the last day!