Still More Reinforcements - Sons of Horus Assault Troops

Horus for hope? Jump this way, fellas...

The XVI Legion parade continues! I have added tactical marines, breacher marines and tactical support marines to the ranks of my XVI Legion forces.  Here are five more assault marines to extend the run of reinforcements!  The models are from Forge World, assault marines in Mark IV power armour, with jump packs, bolt pistols and chainswords, the all-purpose tool of the grim and dark far future.

Embossed shoulder pauldrons...once you do one unit with them, I find they are addictive...

Lots of extra rivets on a few of these fellows...

The "Cthonian Glyph" was handy for the blank shoulder pauldrons

30k Legion assault squads are 10 marines strong, but can be increased to be as large as 20 marines! I didn't have ten extra models around - just these five, but I thought that 15 is better than 10, so these fellows received Sons of Horus shoulder pauldrons and joined the forces of hope and change.  The extra-large squad will come in handy for those wearing battles against the clueless followers of the so-called "Emperor".

"Team photo" of the newly reinforced 15-man squad, looking forward to causing trouble on a gaming table in Winnipeg. The sergeant with the goofy two-handed "heavy" chainsword is still one of my 30k favourites...what a silly, and therefore perfect, weapon to deal with Horus-change denial

Like the other reinforcements seen recently, these were supposed to have been painted during Curt's winter Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.  Instead they became part of my summer painting retreat at the lake.  By the time I got to these fellows I was well into following my new approach to painting Sons of Horus marines, so these figures were completed in a relatively short time. 


The Warmaster has some big plans for the fall, so the reinforcements are not done yet...more to follow soon...