Horus Heresy: Alpha Legion Sicaran Squadron

When I saw the new release I wanted to do something fun with them, they come in a Squadron of 2, so was thinking what I could do to make them stand out..

At first I wanted to draw a symbol which would only be visible when the 2 tanks were sitting side by side, in practise this did not work out as the sonsons create too much of a gap for any symbol to make sense (it an idea which I may visit upon a few Rhino's though.. )

Then, after peering at the Alpha Legion Transfers for a while, it just struck me, Alpha and Omega !  It was staring me in the face all the time!

I sprayed the tanks in the usual manner, black, Vellejo Burnt Metal, Zenithal White Aluminium and then used the Tamita Blue and Green method to make the Alpha Legion Green/Turquoise.

Now the tricky thing was to do all the masking tape, it looked a right mess, but I was confident it would work, I stipple sponged on the lines in dark grey, lighter greys, and then all the way to white.

Fun thing is that the symbols are only visible from a top view and do not look too messy from any other angle, I am quite pleased with the way they came out, I feel it is still making that Alpha Legion arrogant statement, while keeping the symbols obscured, plus that a Squadron called Alpha and Omega just sounds awesome !

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Horus Heresy: Alpha Legion Glaive/Fellblade

When I decided to jump into Heresy the first thing I really wanted was a Glaive, the cannon on it is incredible and it looks the business (ok, the cannon has been toned down by a fiar bit, making the Fellblade a more viable tank, I didn't learn this until after the new rules came out !)

So while I had a Glaive I stumbled upon an eBay auction for the Fellblade turret on its own !  Score !  All I had to do now was to build the Hull Mounted Demolisher cannon, this was easy enough, I had a demolisher cannon from a Baneblade kit and had a spare piece from an old Chimera, together, with a few bits of plasticard and some filler this made for a good substitution.

It sits really snug on the hull, I drill out the holes in the bottom of the plate to fit over the rivets.

Thus I created the Fellglaive, giving me tactical choices on which version I would want to use.

To break up the green a bit I decided to apply some white in the form of a line and one of the turrets was painted in white as well, I simply used finger sponge daubers, starting with dark grey and working all the way up to white, this gives the lines some texture as well looking good against the gleaming metal plates of the green armour.

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Horus Heresy: Alpha Legion Kharybdis completed

Eyecon74:

Completed my Kharybdis Assault Claw.. What a beast of a machine !

Me being me, wanted to have a unique custom base, a mate of mine had a few broken parts on one of his Titans and Forgeworld replaced them of course, but he gave the broken bits to me for the base.

WIth that in mind I decided on a just landed/landing pose, this was a bit of a challenge and it took me a few weeks to work out how to do it, stopping and starting, getting frustrated a few times, but as with all these things, persevere, things tend to work out :D

In the end I got a pose which relies heavily on a 3 mm rod to keep the Claw in place !

I will try to make a more practical "gaming base" as this is a whopping 10 inches in diameter and not super practical, but will look good in a display cabinet :D

I cut away some of the Reaver Titan Carapace and painted it as though it had been cut through by the melta arrays on the Assault Claw.

I made the poor Reaver the remains of the Red Naga, once proud Reaver Titan of the Legio Atarus, the Fire Brands, she met her demise at the Istvaan Massacre and I figured that it would be a typical Alpha Legion thing to desecrate her holy remains…

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Horus Heresy: Alpha Legion Leviathan

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I was looking at the Transfer Sheet for the Alpha legion and it has some really nice transfers on it, but they are pretty big so it is not easy to use them easily.

I had already used a decal some time ago on a shield and that came out very nice, so decided to add one to my Leviathan.

I measured it out and after some dryfitting decided that it would fit, I carefully cut out the little recesses in the armour and started setting it in place.

Now, thing with Leviathans is that the armour panels slope quite a bit, so I had to use a lot of Micro Sol to soften and manipulate the transfer in place.

Use more Micro Sol to soften the edges and keep pressing it down with an old brush, I used the tip of a scalpel to carefully push the vents and recesses in the top of the armour, as well as around the rivets. Once I was happy with the placement I used some varnish to lock it all in place.

After this I started using a sponge finger dauber to go around the edges, for this I used Ironrach Skin and then Deepkin Flesh, both have a faint hint of green in them which matched the colours on the transfer.

After that I started doing some weathering with a sponge and some Rhinox Hide, Skragg Brown, Chainmail and then applied a dot of Seraphim Sepia to the rivets.  I tried to concentrate on the still visible seams of the transfer, sadly they are still a little visible, but I can live with it !

FInally I applied an oil wash all over, cleaned it and this is the end result, quite happy with how it ended up :D

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