Wow - where did November go?! That may be the first month since the blog started that I posted absolutely nothing. Ugh. Well life happens, I suppose. I have not been idle in that time! With the Legiones Astartes getting a mega dump of new armor, I spent a good part of the month resting my brushes from DreadTober and building tiny tanks. While a fun exercise for an experienced modeller, these little bastards are not for the feint at heart! 😆
First up were the Vindicators. I built them as two squadrons of four, given that I use the tank commander model in the copula to signify a squadron's lead tank. These are great replicas of their 28mm cousins and I believe exact in every detail. I find that still pretty amazing at this scale. Thank you digital models!
Next up are the tiny missile tanks. I guess I haven't memorized the Horus Heresy options for the Legiones Astartes...but I thought Whirlwinds were a 40k thing? I'm really not certain why we didn't get 8 Scorpious tanks instead of four and four of these. Regardless, they look cool. :)
The tiny Scorpious tanks are also amazing reproductions of their 28mm cousins. Still kinda annoyed you have to pickup two boxes to get a decent amount of them. Given the zero games of LI that I've managed to play so far, I imagine I shouldn't let that bother me.😂
Then there are the super heavy tanks. So fun! The Typhon Super-heavy Siege tanks are above. Excellent replicas and so much cheaper than owning the 28mm equivalents! I took what might be an odd approach with these; imagining them as two squadrons. One focused on getting in close with the front line and punishing troops and the like to help break the line. And the second in an odd anti-armor support roll with lascannon sponsons and pintle mounted multi-meltas. I guess I imagined the latter in a support role to repel charging/advancing armor? We'll see...
Then my personal favorites, the Cerberus Tank Destroyers. These will look epic in First Legion colors! I went for full anti-armor at range with the pintle-mounted heavy bolters for (limited) point defense. Mostly because I couldn't see the extra points for multi-meltas ever having a practical use given the range of the other weapons
Finally making a surprise appearance, since they do not appear in the tray pictured in the title, are the Legion Mastadon Super-heavy Assault Transports. This is not a model I want to deal with at 28mm scale. But I'm going to enjoy putting First legion colors on these two tiny ones...and maybe two more at some point since I have the slots for them in one of my Battle Foam Trays.
Probably a good time to put in a plug for Battle Foam. I love their trays for Legions Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus. Maybe not always the perfect tray for what you want, but so many options that you should be able to make something work. I haven't used their custom tray creator for this game, but it's possible they have the cut-outs for LI, in which case you could design your own trays anyway. I've done that in the past with some 40K stuff and had a great experience.
Anyway, not a bad way to keep the little guys safe and sound. Not cheap, but if you wait and shop the fairly regular sales, it ain't all bad - esp. compared to what we're already paying for the plastic...
So that was what I had on the work bench in November. I didn't paint much, but rolling into December I have been putting effort finally into an old project...check back in a couple days to have a look at that one, if you wish.
Cheers and Happy Gaming!
