Painting Challenge Submission #4 - Sons of Horus Tactical Squad

Sons of Horus Tactical Squad, plastic figures from GW.

 For the weekend of the 14th, I did a bit of "Challenge Spam", launching multiple postings on my designated day. The first of these was another 20-man tactical squad for the Sons of Horus in GW's "Horues Heresy" setting.

A view of some of the standard poses for the plastic kit.

 

Rear detail on the plastics.

There is a wide assortment of hobby interests participating in AHPC XIII, some of whom are indifferent to GW or to 30k/40k (and that's fine, no worries), so it is also an opportunity for an old-time Rogue Trader-era grognard and fan like me to attempt (perhaps in vain) to explain just how fired up I am for the new Horus Heresy plastics overall, and these beakies in particular. It's like GW went into my head, scanned my notion of which box set they should issue, and then did so! 

The Sergeant, leading the advance.

Always keep your scrolls right next to your grenades. Right?

So it stands to reason that my body of work for AHPC XIII would include a fair bit of this stuff...and here is the first batch - a 20-man tactical squad, painted in the fine seafoam green of the XVI Legion Astartes, the Sons of Horus, the Warmaster's own Legion. If you are a dork for the setting, like I am, you will note they are all clad in "Mark VI" armour - the "beakie" Mark! These are all multi-part plastic figures from GW.

Chain-sword-bayonet...peak Space Marine. I love it.

There was heated discussion in the 30k fan community when news of these figures officially broke last year. Concerns were raised over a "re-sizing" of the figures, and GW didn't help by remaining absolutely silent about it and/or talking around it in such a way as to cause people to suspect the worst. In the end, things were fine (at least in my view - YMMV). These Marines are little taller than the others, but not scandalously so. They are more fiddly to assemble than other plastic Marines from the 30k setting, as clearly some artiste-type was allowed to design the plastic frames (two-piece studded shoulder pads???? WTF??? WHY???) but man, on balance, I LOVE them!

Communications specialist on the left, "Vexillary" on the right. While, in general, there are not too many "skullz" on GW's 30k stuff, there are still a few - presumably the skull on the comms array helps ensure good 5G wireless coverage?

By now I have painted something like 90 new tactical marines alone...anyway, let's say that I have a LOT of these to paint, even now, and I'm looking forward to all of it :)

This submission contains 20 figures, all in 28mm scale, so that was good for 100 points. We also get two skullz for the skull duel! Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more!