Hobby: Salamanders Combat Patrol

 

In keeping with the theme of small thematic armies or warbands, I present here my small force of Salamanders Space Marines.  This force was made from leftover 'firstborn' Space Marine models donated by Grey Mountain Gaming club members and a few models from my own collection that were made to create different factions of Marines for people to use in the club's different narratives and games days.  I'm pretty fond of this force. It reminds me of the type of army you might have seen in Codex: Armageddon or a White Dwarf from the early 2000's. It's probably the attack bike and combat squad that does it.  From a composition and development standpoint, I wanted to give some of the flavor of the Salamanders as a chapter (ie., flame weapons) and construct the force as a small rapid reaction unit or rapid incursion strike force.  I picture them being in Vahland Sector to pursue the traitors of the Centurions of Innocence [LINK] a former Successor chapter of the Salamanders turned traitor, and of course helping to contain the many flashpoints in Vahland that threaten to destabilize Southern Ultramar and the Charadon Sector.

Captain Nehr Fal'yn is the esteemed leader of this strike force. As evidenced by the fact he has traded in his helmet for a glowy sword, the mark of any true hero of the Imperium. I've never been a fan of the lore that Salamanders have black skin and red eyes. My first introduction to the chapter portrayed them with African skin tones, and I've always preferred that to the more sci-fi approach. 

The force was really rapidly painted using Vallejo's Intermediate Green thinned down for use in an airbrush.  Which made short work of the force and applied a nice even green across the full force. I added in small flame details here and there, and I had a small amount of Salamanders shoulder pads and upgrades from Forge World which were donated to the club by one of its members.  

All in all, the force is appealing to me, and its always a great feeling to have a painted force on the table. I've got a few posts queued up to show you these guys on the field working to keep Vahland Sector safe from the Mutant, Xenos and Heretic very soon. So stay tuned! 

Thank you for reading! 

-Your Favorite Madman-

Hobby: Necron Combat Patrol

 

Some time ago now, I completed a small combat patrol of Necrons for what I've been terming the 'Galthadra Dynasty'.  A lesser branch of the wider Nihilak Dynasty, the Galthadran Necrons hail from the Belt of Calces in the heart of the Vahland Sector. Their awakening has caused some issues of late for the Imperium, and for several other lesser Xenos races that call the core of Vahland sector home

I wanted to go for a different scheme than I had seen on Necrons, while still keeping on theme for them being a spooky undead force.  I settled on a rusty brown, with accents of yellow, white and brassy gold. To give the impression of a worn and weathered robot but while maintaining some of the pomp and heraldic grandeur that I think of when I think about the Necrons

Originally the force was intended to fight against the Sages of Enmity [LINK] as an introduction for an ex to Warhammer 40,000 back in 9th edition.  That obviously did not come to fruition as you can probably guess that didn't end of working out. But I still got plenty of games in of 9th and 10th. 

The wider club's collection of Necrons, which is now in the many thousands of point's is largely painted in Nihlak Codex compliant colors. But this brown little unit still remains.

This sort of mismatch doesn't bother me to much, I've always enjoyed the history that tabletop games that can communicate. I've met so many people through this hobby and my collection of miniatures reflects the changing interests, styles of moments of my life. I think that's really special.  So even though the Brown Crons represent a painful moment of personal seperation and loss in my life, painting them helped me to find resolution with that breakup.

One of the reasons this blog is still going is after all because I'm a bit of a nostalgic person that likes to wax poetic and talk about life and toy soldiers.

I hope you enjoyed! 

-Your Favorite Madman-

Hobby: Plauge Marines of the Maggotworn Path

 

I've been playing Death Guard, or more specifically Nurgle Chaos Space Marines for just about as long as i've been playing Warhammer, and tabletop games in general. Vahland, and the origins of this blog will attest to that. My original warband the 'Knights of Decay' fought alongside the Rallen 14th and other Traitor Guards under the 'Pilgrims of Rust' and the tales of great heresy and rebellion the two armies unleashed on an unsuspecting sector started as notebook paper scrawlings in a three ring binder until eventually rising to this humble blog you now see before you. 

The actions of the Knights of Decay and their human allies would bring a great deal of ire and both forces were met with a brutal Imperial reprisal (ie. much of the components of both armies were sold) this reprisal, the Manchvellian Crusade, is a mighty tale of heroism in its own right, and perhaps when the time Is right I will sit down and tell you about it.  The important outcome, is that key heros of the warbands survived, and would eventually be refounded into the 'Maggotworn Path' (with the release of the lovely new sculpts for Death Guard in 8th Edition Warhammer 40,000) 

I opted for a strikingly different color pallet from the duo-tone green and brass that was present on the old Knights of Decay. The white and purple appeals to me from an asthetic standpoint becuase of the options to add weathering and other viscera to really 'pop' on the armor. 

The models seen here are the core of the army but are by no means the only members of the force, which has swollen now to a great many points, filled with Daemons, Zombies and Daemon Engines Galore. All told, I'm really very pleased with the figures, and I always enjoy working on them, even if some of the new sculpts can be a little confusing as to where armor ends and flesh begins.  

Thank you for reading! 

-Your Favorite Madman-