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| Sons of Horus tactical marines wearing Mark IV armour - 3D prints in 15mm. |
More 30k-themed models have been crossing the painting desk through the summer, but I've dipped back into the 15mm project once more. Here we have a nice pile of reinforcements for the Sons of Horus - a big 20-man tactical squad and a 10-man assault squad. All are clad in Mark IV power armour. These are all 3D prints from Byron, with assorted decals sourced from various GW sets.
Tactical Squad
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| Officer on the left, with customary scary pistol an scary sword; Vox-equipped trooper on the right. |
No matter what scale you partake, when it comes to the Horus Heresy, these huge 20-man tactical squads are all kinds of fun.
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| Closer view of a couple of the tactical troopers. |
The 3D prints of the Mark IV armour really turned out nicely. The only real hiccup with these guys is the size of the integral chunk of resin at their feet...I find removing them to be fraught (as the resin can snap in funny ways) and I lack the hobby infrastructure to safely sand/grind them down, so I resorted to doing the best I could to shave them down with a hobby knife...not the smartest decision, and this was abandoned after a couple of the figures!
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| Horus for hope! |
Anyway, they look fine, and will be even better after I re-supply on grass tufts and can go on a little binge adding them to these figures.
Assault Squad
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| Assault squad ready to jump into the action! |
It's good to get the classic jump-pack craziness of the Horus Heresy going in my 15mm collection. I had actually started painting these guys...I dunno, a while ago, such that I was sure I had already put photos of them on the blog? But I couldn't find them...anyway, in the event I've doubled up, my apologies in advance...
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| Fancy weapons for the officer, as per usual. |
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| Working class bolt pistols and chain swords for the rest of the lads! |
I do love the look of the Mark IV armour on the jump pack-equipped assault marines, and I also like the style of the jump packs themselves, based around a single large jet - a layout that seems somewhat more sensible than the huge twin-jet set up of the classic armour packs - but for all that the Mark IV jet pack itself it still large enough to be very dangerous, and therefore "fit" properly with the setting.
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| Lots of fun to work with these little castings! |
So that's another 30 troops for cause of the Warmaster! I guess I'll need to do something to balance things out for the Loyalist side...stay tuned for more on that at some point later this summer...
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