Horus Heresy: Salamanders Spartan

Hello Bunnies! 

My new Horus Heresy 2.0 is expanding! Following on from my Kratos that I post on Monday is the new plastic Spartan all done up in it’s new finest green! This will most often end up being Vulkan’s personal ride along with his retinue of Firedrakes. 

As with the Kratos, it is a commission painted tank. It isn’t quite finished as we are still deciding what to do regarding flames and awaiting the new transfer sheet to add the final few details. Please check out and support my friend in his commission painting, you can find his work at: https://www.facebook.com/DTB-miniature-painting-141409912551216/

I am very much sticking to the Melta and flamer options for ther army, as such I had to add the Multi-melta pintle weapon and the hull mounted heavy flamers. Probably not the best choices but certainly fit the army nicely! 

The plastic kit is really good, though it does have a lot more pieces than the resin version!! The build was good though and a lot less hassle and better fitting than the old resin one. It weighs a significant amount less as well!! Seeing that the kit clearly makes the new Land Raiders seen in the new Liber books, I am excited to add them into the growing legion when they become available. 

I have loaded up Dave with a huge chunk of additional models as well, so expect to see some updates coming in the next few weeks. He has all the resin I ordered prior to the plastic drop. Vulkan, 20 Pyroclasts, Legion Champion, Praetor or centurion and 8 Firedrakes. To round out the start to the legion I have 20 plastic mk3’s to be tactical support quads all armed with flamers and 4 Rhinos for the Pyro’s and supports to ride around in. Additionally the 10 Cataphratii and plastic contemptor for the new big box will be added in. Further more, plastic Land Raiders will be done when they get released, and hopefully the possible/probable plastic Predator Infernus. 

That’s the great plan anyway! Key your eyes out for updates in the coming months! 

Happy gaming!

Andy

Spartan Assault Tank

Hi All,

I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up my Spartan Assault Tank which I run for my Cataphractii Terminator Squad (and usually my Warsmith or Perturabo too!). I’ve had the kit for quite some time and despite it being partially finished for ages, I decided to pull my finger out and finish the kit.

The Spartan is a great model and it’s a fairly massive kit too – it’s the biggest resin model that I’ve built so far and it was pretty daunting when I first got the box as I hadn’t been working with resin for that long at the time!

I’ve learned that the only way to run the Spartan is with all the upgrades, you’ll want a Flare Shield, Auxiliary Drive and some Armoured Ceramite to ensure you get to where you want to go. It’s an expensive model to begin with and there’s no point in skimping on the upgrades once you’ve laid down more than 300 points for the barebones model!

My experience of fielding the Spartan is that your opponent will either focus a disproportionate amount of firepower on it, leaving the rest of your army untouched, or will largely ignore it and deal with its contents when they arrive. Either way, it always tends to have an impact on a game!

In larger games, I run my Spartan with Perturabo, a Terminator Warsmith and 10 Cataphractii Terminators with plenty of upgrades to go around, which sets me back around 1570 points... ouch!!

How do you field yours, and what do you put inside it?

Cheers!

Ikthelion

Spartan ready for glory!

Hey guys, really happy to show off my new finished product, a Legion Spartan tank for my World Eaters. I have been looking forward to having my first tank folr some time and here it is! I thought it was going to be quite an arduous task to get this beast completed but was quite a simple build and paint.

Hope you all like how I've done, and I would appreciate any feedback so I can better future vehicles (I am looking to get a Whirlwind soon). Currently I am working on the Bloody one (aka Kharn) and also a squad of Red Butchers. These look to be really good to do. Will post updates in regular stages :)

As always we Battle Bunnies appreciate all comments so check out all our posts and see what takes your fancy! Why not check out our Forge World Open Day review? See you soon guys :)



Darko Thane

World Eater Rhino ready (finally)

After long and arduous turmoil my first Rhino is finally complete. I had a few delays which prolonged the completion but it is done now. 

Overall I am very happy with the product and I am looking forward to using it to transport my squad along. I have really enjoyed doing this vehicle and I look forward to doing more in the future as this was my first vehicle attempt!

Currently I am now working on another vehicle, a Spartan. It looks like its going to be a lovely unit to use and with it looking to be nearly as big as a Fellblade (with rough sizing up to Drake's it actually is close!) it looks like it will be fun to build and paint.

Heres a little sneak:

Stay tuned for updates and more work from all of us.

Darko Thane