Alpha Legion Rubic Marines

 After a recent practice game I was introduced to the brutality of Rubic marines.

As I have a habit of being a terrible dice roller eliminating the to hit roll seemed to be a smart move.

With a spare legionaries sprue and a head of flamers from as many chaos kits as I could find I set about creating the unit.

 Most were created using the standard legionaries flamer and weapon combos but a few needed some swapping of barrels to get a consistent finish across the unit. The sarge’s hand flamer was a flamer end and fuel tank added on to a cut down bolt pistol.

The champ also had some extra skulls added to his trophy rack and an addition of a little horror from the changer of ways sprue.

The same kit provided the icon of flame that slotted nicely into a gap in a spare death guard backpack.

My painting again followed the approach of my Legionnaires that has been used across my entire new Alpha Legion army.

My usual yellow green for tentacles was used for the flamers with the barrels given a light stain on the barrel.

I have a friendly two game tournament coming up and I have another rhino and some new chosen to paint up in preparation.

The list will be using the deceptors detachment and will be infantry heavy. Might struggle against knights but will have plenty of sneaky infiltration and move moves.

Alpha Legion Rhino

This is the first of my two rhinos for my Alpha Legion.

This is a second hand rescue that was painted mainly with bolt gun metal. A few of the spiky chaos bits had fallen off and needed replacement.

I added an old bolter from a previous rhino kit and created a havoc missile launcher with a kit bash from the rhino accessory sprue and a missile rack from a mate of mine.

 For the new paint job, I gave it a hit with my air brush with chrome and then applied my usual alpha legion mix paint scheme. I was a bit worried the old paint was too thick but this was not an issue when I started my painting and then a pair of the long chaos words transfer covered up some of the damage.

As is the case in the my other alpha legion I wanted as many parts to be my yellow green mix of the weapons becoming one with the warp.

The chaos panels on the back of the rhino came up really well as did the chains and other chaos icons.

My fist game with the rhino was a good learning curve with my goal to use the rhinos to safely deliver my chosen and my next project which will be Alpha Legion Rubic marines with their flamethrowers.

Hers’s a sneak peak of the unit.

Alpha Legion Obliterators

 Some more heavy back up for my Alpha Legion are these mighty Obliterators.

These bros fit in well with the rest of my Alpha Legion as they are the ultimate mix of marine and war machine.

As usual painting followed my usual paint scheme trialled with my first unit of legionnaires. The only new approach was for the plasma weapons, ammo and feed which had a plasma red speed paint over a yellow undercoat.

I really like my tentacle green that makes the weapons look like my theme which is after 10 000 years of “loyalty”, the marine is becoming one with his armour and weapons.

More Alpha Legion transfers have been obtained so I made sure these bros have a suitable amount of legion insignia and where possible some chaos runes across larger panels. I am very happy with the “text” paragraph on the power fist on one of the bros.

After listening to the Long War Podcast talk about skin tone washes, I also added a watered down GW purple was across the recesses of the skin areas. This came out very well so will be tried for future skin tones.

I have my first game with a heap of my new Alpha Legion tomorrow where these bros will be deep striking to victory.

Alpha Legion Maulerfiend

 The ranks of the Alpha Legion are boosted with this maulerfiend conversion.

The maulerfiend uses the mutalith beast as a base minus the large magic vortex that usually goes on its back. 

The conversion was pretty simple with the magma cutters represented by a couple of weapons I think from an actual maulerfiend/ forgefiend kit.

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I tried my hand at making some slime to hang off the tentacles. The slime was made using uhu glue wrapped around the tentacles and when dried, painted up using my tentacle painting scheme. Probably needs some gloss varnish but I have run out so this will be done later.

The paint scheme of the maulerfiend followed that of my other Alpha Legion which was finished off with transfers from the legionaries kit.

I am now close to 2000 points of my new Alpha Legion and have a game next week which will be lead by Cypher whilst I finish my next conversion.

More cultist reinforcements

Keeping the Alpha Legion project going this week includes another 11 cultists.

Painting followed the approach in my first Cultists post with the only change being the blue painted to match my current approac (noting I had already updated the blue on the older dudes too).

Although the range of sculpts is a bit limited compared to the current multi part kit, I always loved the chaos range from the dark imperium set so when I saw some reinforcements going cheap I scooped them up.

Here are the 11 hanging out with their earlier painted mates.

Chaos Lord and Venomcrawler

 Some more reinforcements for my Alpha Legion with the Chaos Lord from the blackstone fortress set and a venomcrawler.

I always liked the lord mini with one of reasons for his inclusion in my new Alpha Legion is the amount of tentacles growing out of his armour. He appears to slowly becoming one with those tentacles.

The only conversion I needed to do was shaving down his left should pad so I could apply the Alpha Legion transfer. 

Painting of both minis followed the approach of the Alpha Legion Legionnaires with a little extra attention for the lord befitting of his status.

Both bases had cork added to represent rocks to break up the bases a little more. After I finished the paint job I decided to add some barbed wire to both bases so a few of these pics are from before that addition.

As is with the case with my Alpha Legion I want there to be a slow mix of the weapons and armour with the yellow green tentacles. The venomcrawler demonstrates this with the “flesh” and exhaust fumes painted the same way.

 

Alpha Legion Legionnaires 2 Part Two

I have now finished the next five of my second unit of legionnaires.

Much like the first the next five are set for close range shooting and combat.

Painting followed the scheme in Part 1with a little extra of the green paint mix on the accursed weapon of the leader.

With 10 done the unit is ready for the battlefield.

My plan is to run the deceptors detachment but I think I may need some heavy hitters so next up for the Alpha Legion will be a venom crawler and possibly some obliterators.

Alpha Legion Legionnaires 2

 My revised Alpha Legion is slowly being reinforced with a second unit of legionaries.

This unit is more melee and close range focussed with a heavy melee weapon, second bro with a plasma pistol and another with a plasma gun. All other dudes have bolt pistols and chainswords.

The heavy melee is demonstrated by a large spear conversion which seemed appropriate for the sons of the hydra. The wielder also gets the honour of carrying the chaos icon for some reroll of those dark pacts.

Painting followed the approach of the First legionaries unit with the same contract of the yellow green on the larger symbols/  weapon blades and red across all cloth.

I went with the alternative chapter symbol of a single hydra to differentiate them from the first unit of legionaries.

The next five are ready for the paint table.

I also repainted my old Chaos Lord from 7th edition who I always liked and gave him the necessary bigger base for 10th edition.