mandag 4. august 2014

What's left to make... Space Marines - part 1 vehicles

Like the Imperial Guard update I have to split this army update in two. This first post will list and talk about the vehicles, and Part 2 will talk about the troops.

I haver lots of vehicles for the Space Marines, and if I just get to work on them I will be able to field quite a lot of points on the battlefield.

I have 1 Stormraven gunship and 1 Stormtalon gunship, I plan to add one more Stormtalon in the future, as it looks way cooler to have 2 fighters escort another ship in to a hot landingzone than just one. But that will wait until I have built a lot of what I already have.

I also have 1 Landspeeder and 1 Landspeeder Storm (Scout verson of the regular Landspeeder), and these will be used just as they are intended in the rules. This time I will assemble it correctly so I don't get the same disaster I got when assembling my first one (see several very old blogposts about this) with lots of greenstuff and the tailsection being assembled the wrong way...

I also have a Droppod to deliver one of my units, but I haven't decided what unit this will be. No matter what I decide I will paint it so that I can use it with whatever unit I like from game to game.

I have 3 boxes that can be assembled as either Stalkers or Hunters, and I plan to have both units in the army but I don't know if it will be 2 Stalkers and 1 Hunter or the other way around.

The Landraider I have will either be a Crusader or Redeemer, this will be decided when I assemble it. I have to see what the different configurations have when it comes to weapon systems. There migh be more Landraiders in the future, but I will not buy more before I have assembled much of the army I already have.

I have started to paint and assemble 1 whirlwind and 1 Vindicator, they will be finished as soon as I get some room on my worktable. They are the first vehicles that I have started on since Games Workshop came out with their new range of paints, so I am doing some experimenting with them to find the look I like. So far I think I have ended on a one tone sceme of Kantor Blue.

There are also quite a lot of bikes in the army. They are a mix of Ravenwing bikes and regular ones. I am not sure yet if I will keep the "tails" on the Ravenwing bikes or if I will cut them off, but I try to remove most of the Dark Angel symbols from the bikes and riders, and just keep what needs to be on to look cool. For the new sets that I build from the box some of this can be arranged by swapping the Dark Angel shoulder guards with unmarked ones from my bitbox.
I have 1 Ravenwing command squad and 1 bike squad as well as 3 bikers from the starter set (Dark Vengeance) and 3 Ravenwing bikers of unknown origin that have the "tails" of the Ravenwing.
Along side them I will field a Space Marine bike squad, 1 space marine on bike (the one with the missing torso), 1 in bubble wrap, and 2 chaplains on bikes still in their boxes. I also have 2 Space Marine attack bikes that just need some final brush-up. There are also 2 scout bikes that will join the 1 already assembled (just missing some weathering) as a scout bike squad.  So there will be a formidable fast attack capability in this army.



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