Hello and welcome back! While puttering away on the Death Korps of Krieg heavy weapon squad, I have been assembling various other nice-to-haves for my 40K Dark Angels collection. Here we have a Gladiator Valiant tank.
It was just a stock build with some Dark Angels bling added on, but will paint up nice. Next I added five more assault intercessors with jump packs to bring an initial squad of five to full strength.
All joking aside though, these are fantastic Drukhari models. I realize they were really nothing new; just a Kabalite squad with an upgrade sprue. But they are new to me! Very characterful models, I thought. I mounted mine on 32mm Sector Mechanicus bases I had in the bin. Larger than the 25mm bases they come with, but more interesting (and stable) for kill team games.
Not done with the building itch, I also put together an Acastus Knight Porphyrion I picked up on eBay by mistake (I can't count apparently...). And then two Acastus Knights Asterius. The heat sinks (?!) are left off the weapons for future painting.
The Questoris Knights box is still awaiting assembly to fill out the household. Though I haven't decided just what household that will be. It will likely be something other than House Taranis which I chose for my Adeptus Titanicus collection (not that I've put paint on any but a couple Questoris knights there yet...). It will be nice to have a different paint scheme to work on for the experience.
So anyway, that's what I've been working on from late April into May while not painting. I very much enjoy the process of snipping, cleaning and assembling the models - probably more than painting them if I'm being honest. I'm definitely more deliberate these days as to what I assemble, but it's still hard to keep up. :)
For me, the goal is to hobby in general, not arrive at any specific set of painted miniatures. Assembly for me is every bit as important as the painting, Maybe because I grew up with loads of unpainted green plastic army men?? At least I matured past lighting them on fire with loads of plastic cement and detonating them with firecrackers. The flamer dudes always got the upper hand in my games as a kid...
Cheers and Happy Gaming!!
That's quite a nice selection of very cool miniatures! Having recently put together the Atrapos myself, I found them to be a joy; especially the different Mechanicum heads are quite nice. The Acastus Knights are also very cool miniatures, I'll have to get some of them as well. How do the Asterius Knights in plastic compare to the ForgeWorld versions?
ReplyDeleteThe plastic is basically an identical copy, but easier to work with. I’m a fan.
DeleteYou have been busy DAM, and such a wide variety to pick from whenever the muse descends
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely!
DeleteLots of cool miniatures built!
ReplyDelete(although surely that is a picture of Eldar Corsairs, and not the Hand of the archon?)
Ack! Busted. Right; the Corsairs is correct. Damn confounding Xenos!
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