Legions Imperialis Civitas Imperialis Administratum Sector

After having painted all the infantry and tanks of the Army I thought it was the right time to take a group picture to see what's left. Basically, I have 10 "miniatures" pending: 5 Knights, 4 Titans and 1 Thunderhawk. I hope to paint at least a couple of those before the end of the year, as stretch goals.

Now that I have an Army that is big enough to play up to 2k games, I decide to buy some scenery so that I could host games at home. I bought one Administratum Sector and one set of Ruins and after removing all of them from the sprues I was a little bit overwhelmed... you can see in the picture below the insane amount of pieces I had. I think I spent around 5 or 6 hours just removing them from the sprue and cleaning mold lines, and a couple more assembling them. After building several of the "standard" ones, I decided to build a super big one, enough to hide a Titan (Reaver though) behind it!

Once I deploy all the scenery is more than enough to cover 5'x4' which is the standard Legions table size. I hope to paint them using airbrush experiment a little bit with different shades and weathering techniques.

Legiones Astartes Support

And this marks the last post with all the miniatures of the Support Box and therefore all Infantry and Dreadnoughts of the Army! I have completed the stretch of the original goal!

Here you can see two Rapiers and four Tarantulas. Honestly, I don't like them too much. I only field them if I need to add some units for the points, but usually I'd rather not field them. You will also notice that two Rapiers are missing as I gave those away to a friend that will put them to much better use since he plays Iron Warriors.

Dreadnought Talon (III)

Today I am showing the Leviathans that came with the Support Box.

Painted like the Deredeos, these guys provide some brutal support for close combat. So far they have not been very effective in battle, but I just like them so much that I always include them.

Dreadnought Talon (II)

The support box comes fully loaded with 8 new Dreadnoughts, 4 Deredeos and 4 Leviathans. Today I am showing the Deredeos!

These Dreads provide invaluable support against flying targets so they are a must in every battle.

I was not too happy with how the Contemptors looked like as I painted them using the Infantry Techniques so I decided to paint them as if they were tanks, exactly as explained in the post about Rhinos. I am much more pleased with how they have turned out, in particular, with the enamel green wash. I think it really fits them better.

Sicarans

The last batch of tanks from the Starter box, painted at the same time as the Predators and with the same techniques. Not much to say about them save for the fact that they so far have been useless on the field getting killed on turn 1 or 2 without causing any damage haha

With this post I have managed to fulfill all the objectives I set at the end of last year and I am super happy because of that. But since I recently bought a Support Box that has more Dreadnoughts and some support weapons, I decided to include these as a stretch goal to the original goals so I am going to post them next!

Predators

The second batch of tanks I painted were the ones included in the starter box: Predators and Sicarans.

I followed exactly the same method and techniques as with the Rhinos. These three with lascannons have been so far  always in all the games I have played.

Rhinos

After having painted the Infantry and Contemptors I needed to paint the tanks to provide some much needed support.

First of all, a box of Rhinos to provide some mobility. I typically field two Demi-Companies. One on foot and one fully mechanized. And for the one with vehicles, I usually have at least 6-8 Rhinos.

Unfortunately, as you probably will see in the pictures, there is a huge coarse grain mixed with dust overall and even tiny filaments... That is the varnish coat that managed to completely botch the paint job... not only for these Rhinos but in fact for all the miniatures that I had painted and was varnishing in batch, that I will be showing in the upcoming weeks. After banishing that varnish spray to the Eye of Terror I went back to the hobby desk to redo most of the colours...

The way I painted these was super fast:

1. base coat black with spray
2. green with airbrush
3. black again on the black or metal parts
4. boltgun metal on the metal parts
5. wash green with dark wash enamel for green vehicles
6. wash metal with strong tone (kind of agrash)
7. apply decals
8. varnish

All in all I think it took about 2 hours in total.