I bought the
set in a moment of enthusiasm. I have pretty much zero interest in
Horus Heresy as a game system. It had Maximus armour in, though,
plastic Maximus armour! My issues with Forge World resin are
well-documented (another reason the game doesn't appeal to me, too
much FW resin) and Maximus armour is my favourite Space Marine armour
mark. Hell, I committed to a Black Templars army back in the day just
because the upgrade sprue came with a Maximus chest plate.
Aesthetic
reasons are the best reasons to do things, shut up!
So, yeah, I
didn't have anything to do
with those models once I had them. The only reason I painted the
Contemptor Dreadnought for my Flesh Tearers was because it was the
first opportunity that presented itself. And, of course, the other
dsay a sudden craze made me decide to paint the Legion Praetor as an
Angel Of Redemption.
So
what else have we got to work with?
Cataphractii
Terminators
For
a start, the Cataphractii Terminators are getting painted as Angels
Of Redemption. I really like the way the Praetor came out and I want
to have a whole squad like that. This also has a double benefit of
giving me something to do with the Dark Angels from my Dark Vengeance
set some time down the line (I bought it for the Chaos stuff).
Dark
Apostle
He's
getting a head swap. Loathe as I am to damage a perfectly good set of
Maximus, he needs either a skull helm or a bare head to become a
Flesh Tearers Chaplain. I love the plastic Death Company Chaplain but
he has a jet pack and the Death Company I'm painting right now are on
foot so this will make a good addition to the squad.
Tactical
Squad #1
I
have been hoarding pistols and melee weapons ever since I started my
Flesh Tearers army and here is where I get to use them: a ten man
Vanguard Squad with all sorts of cool poses. I have a bunch of
pistols, chainswords and various power weapons from different kits so
no two models should look the same. Plus, being armed for close
combat they won't have boltguns obscuring their lovely armour.
Tactical
Squad #2
Right,
so this squad of ten models is going to contribute to twenty figures.
Here's how its going to work...
For
a start, the ten torsos and heads will be used to augment a Blood
Angels Tactical Squad. This will leave me with ten spare Blood Angels
torsos and plenty of heads to augment vanilla Space Marine kits later
on.
Of
the remaining parts, five sets of legs, backpacks and weapon arms
will be used to build a unit of Alpha Legion Headhunter Kill Team for
my Chaos forces.
The
other five sets of legs and such will be hybridised with some MkIII
torsos and heads I have left over from making some Forge World Plague
Marines (never... again... I don't care how much I spent on those
kits, they are tantamount to unbuildable and I will just wait for the
plastics) and a Dark Angel Veterans box set to make a squad of ten
Fallen.
Tactical
Squad #3
And
here I run out of ideas. There's not really anything else I want to
do for my Flesh Tearers and I absolutely do not want to paint Maximus
armour with its basically bare chestplate in the Angels Of
Redemption's halved colour scheme. So, with nothing functional to do
with them, I have a few possibilities for more decorative, challenge
myself sort of projects.
I
could build them as Black Templars. I have plenty of the upgrade
parts sitting around. I could paint them as Alpha Legion if the
Headhunters come out well. I've also always loved the Sons Of Horus
colour scheme so I might try my hand at that, there being an
excellent WarhammerTV tutorial on YouTube.
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