Heroic Fighter

Larren Jax, Heroic Fighter.

Armed with his reliable Laser Rifle and the medical knowledge he picked up as a soldier he is a steadfast fighter for the rebellion.

Larren Jaz from Hasslefree.

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Crooked Dice have released a range of resin scenery items including a pack of four mattresses.

There are two mouldings, one intact, the other with the stuffing leaking out.

They are certainly of generous dimensions - William Killian for scale.

And a Rubicon T34/85.

Civil War Sniper

This is a Civil War sniper fromWarlord Games.

 Now that looks uncomfortable, but the long gun is supported by the sword. I have seen models of modern snipers in similar poses.

Some commander is not going to have a good day.

I must get round to finishing off some more of these figures.

Iron Hands work in progress

This is almost complete, but I have not fitted it with a backpack.

 One of the features of this particular chapter of the loyalist marines is their self harming initiation ceremony involving the removal of one of their arms and its replacement with bionics. The forearm of the left arm was removed, two plastic rods fitted into holes drilled in the hand and the elbow.

A mark 7 head with additional optics was used to indicate their ideology of metal over flesh.

I just need to find a suitable backpack, do some last clean up and paint, and this is ready to go.

Alpha Legion Sniper

So continuing with the Alpha Legion theme, they are experts at intervention and underhanded tactics.

Sometimes direct pinpoint action is required, so there is a need for snipers.

Now there is no "sniper" option on any army list that covers Alpha Legion, however there is no kill better than overkill, so I chose the longest range weapon available on my lists -  the Las Cannon.

Again I used the normal Space Marine kits - this time the heavy weapons one and the kneeling legs.

Now for "Line" marines I have used a combination of Chaos and normal marine parts avoiding anything too chaotic. Now the sniper is going to be an Elite choice so I used just normal marine parts.

The kneeling pose suits the sniper concept.

The only problem is the power cable between the cannon and the backpack, as you can see here it would pass through the knee, so this figure is awaiting my attempting to connect the two.

Alpha Legion Terminator work in progress

More figures from the work in progress box, in this case Alpha Legion.

My take of the Alpha Legion is that they attempt to look like normal Marines rather than the spikes and tentacles of the other traitor legions. Their subversive activities mean they need to pass as normal marines.

We are marines from the Hydra Legion, now where is your central defence hub?

Their equipment is going to be a mixture of old and new, picked up as they go along.

This is exemplified by this Terminator.

With the exception of the weaponry and the head it looks like a regular terminator suit (except that it lacks a Crux Terminatus). Armed with the old style Reaper auto cannon shorn of any overt chaos symbols it would appear to be a loyalist suit.

Built from a Terminator body with the head opening widened to take a Marine mark 7 helmet. The reaper is from the Chaos Marine Terminator kit, the power glove is a marine one as are the two shoulder pads. The Crux Terminatus was shaved off leaving the skull.

The body was sprayed with Citadel Incubi Darkness and I have started to paint the black base coats on the weapons, cables etc.

Chaos Reigns (at least on the workbench...)

While I was shuffling round the contents of the figure boxes I came across a few Chaos Marines that are still work in progress.

Iron Warrior terminator

Iron Warrior Terminator Lord

A Nurgle Terminator Champion (based on a  Womblehammer Nurgle character).

I might get round to finishing them sometime.