Taking some inspiration from the article on the GW site about the Emperor's Fist tank company, I decided to come up with some names for my tanks - a nice respite from painting.
Here is the list of the tank names and their markings:
Squadron Command Tank – 601 – Imperator Furor (Emperor’s Fury)
Command Tank – 611 – Auctorita (Power)
Tank – 612 – Marcus ab Morsus (Hammer of Pain)
Tank – 613 – Tundo ab Redemptio (Anvil of Redemption)
Command Tank – 621 – Veneratio (Honour)
Tank – 622 – Lumen ab Libertas (Light of Freedom)
Tank – 623 – Uternus Odium (Eternal Hate)
Command Tank – 631 – Glorificus Letum (Glorious Death)
Tank – 632 – Fastosus (Pride)
Tank – 633 – Bellum (War)
I don't think that I'm going to bother with painting these names in visible places on all of the tanks as some are a bit long. Instead they will all be labelled underneath the tank, again just to provide them with a little bit of character - makes for better story telling as well.
Whilst routing around looking for some other pictures I stumbled across some very old pictures of the regiment. Now these pics pretty much show everything that I have apart from the mass of Leman Russ', heavy weapons teams and my Baneblade to name a few.
Ok so in the picture we have: at the front (from L to R) - meltagun, junior officer, commissar, junior officer, meltagun, vindicare assassin, master vox, senior officer, regimental standard, meltagun, medic, commissar, plasmagun, junior officer, plasmagun, junior officer medic.
obviously in the middle the heavy weapons and infantry speak for themselves - ignore the headless zombie squad.
at the very back (from L to R) - chimera, leman russ vanquisher, leman russ, basilisk, leman russ demolisher, leman russ exterminator, chimera.
at the back in front of the tanks (from L to R) - cadian pattern sentinel, lascannon team, kasrkin squad, missile launcher, sniper, cadian pattern sentinel.
A close view of part of the Command squad - the regimental standard is probably my best painted model now. Skin etc has been improved.
And finally one of the Cadian Pattern Sentinels.
I hope that this gives everyone some idea of the size of the unfinished part of my army let alone the huge amount that requires building. I have decided to put the tank company on hold until I can get hold of a spray gun so I can quickly paint them up.
Right still no pictures but there is a reason for this.
The first reason is I'm lazy and haven't got around to taking any photos, but the main reason is that I'm trying to get the models completely finished before I take any photos of them.
My currenttask is completing the 4 infantry squads that have been sitting around collecting dust for the past few months. These squads are from platoons 7 and 9. In each squad there is a sergeant, special weapon and 8 lasgun armed troopers. One of these does have a vox caster. The special weapon for platoon 7 is a flamer and every squad in this platoon will have one. I'm also thinking of keeping these guys to one side and given them some transport to act as a quick flaming response to battles or for city fights. Platoon 9 has grenade launchers, a nice versatile weapon.
In the not too distant future, Platoons 6 and 8 will be armed with meltaguns and plasmaguns. I'm looking at using the plastic versions of the weapons from the Space Marine sprues to do this, and also to make it a bit different to the metal Cadian models. In the far future this will be complemented with some FW Cadian special weapons, if only they did them without respirators :(.
Anyway back to painting and fingers crossed some pictures by next Monday.
This blog is being started having been inspired by Col. Gravis' Praetorian Guard blog and also Admiral Drax' blog, so thanks guys.
Firstly, I'll start with a list of completed projects etc, or at least ones which are near completion:
Commissar Yarrick
Command Squad - with Commissar
Heavy Bolter Squad - Hotel Alpha - 3 x Heavy Bolters
Mortar Squad - Mother Alpha - 3 x Mortars
Lascannon Squad - Lima Alpha - 3 x Lascannons
Ratling Snipers x 7
Sniper
Vindicare Assassin
Platoon 700
Command Squad - with Commissar
Squad 712 - 10 x Guardsmen - Sergeant, Vox, Grenade Launcher
Squad 714 - 10 x Guardsmen - Sergeant, Vox, Grenade Launcher
Leman Russ Battle Tank
Leman Russ Demolisher
Basilisk
Baneblade
Thats pretty much what I've got finished so far. Although everything needs some small detail finished - like decals or basing. I think that provides me with a pretty good base to expand on with everything else.
And now for the huge list of things that I am yet to complete. A lot of this stuff is still on boxes floating around my study.
Creed and Kell special characters
2 x Commissars
3 x Preachers
3 x Cadian Officers
2 x Cadian Guardsmen at ease (Ltd ed models)
Kasrkin Squad - 10 x Kasrkin
Cadian Special Weapons - 3 x Meltaguns, 2 x Plasmaguns
Cadian Squads - about another 4 squads of 10 I think
Heavy Weapons - another 6 heavy weapons to be built
Armageddon Pattern Sentinel
Forgeworld Artemia Pattern Hellhound - so close to completion
2 x Chimera Transports
Leman Russ Exterminator
Converted Leman Russ Vanquisher
Emperor's Fist Tank Company - 4 tanks built: 1 almost completed (pics will be on here soon), 1 painting has begun, 1 basecoated, 1 unpainted and 6 still on sprues.
This is my biggest project at the moment. There are quite a few bits of Forgeworld gear going onto these tanks, and they are all being modelled as if they are on a continuing campaign - so lots of battle damage, lots of equipment etc.
As you can see there is a stupid amount for me to do. I'll get some pics of everything up on here next so I can get some comments and ideas. Thanks for looking guys.
Another completed tank! This time it's the magnetised Manticore/Deathstrike
