Alpharaddon/ Omegaddon Alpha Legion Lord

 This weekend the Alpha Legion have a two game tournament and will be led by Abaddon.

However, as I don’t have an Abaddon miniature I decided to use a spare Roboute Guilliman for a conversion of the Despoiler. Keeping with the Alpha Legion theme he is renamed as Alparaddon or is it Omegaddon?

I stole this idea from an excellent YouTuber Striking Scorpion 82 who uses a similar Guilliman repaint as Mimic the Daemon Prince in his Alpha Legion.

The conversion used the Guillimam base with a replaced head and shoulder pads. For the left hand I found a chaos fantasy shield / armour plate that fitted nicely with a bit of cutting.  This gave the weapon a more appropriate chaos look for his Talon of Horus.

To fill some gaps between the new should pads and chest I used some skull chains from the chaos rhino kit. These required various degrees of trimming but fitted in well between the gaps.

The theee “hydra” heads on the backpack also came from the chaos rhino kit. I purposely kept one off centre to represent these heads being “alive”.

The chaos star was attached with an another spiky bit from the rhino kit. From memory the star is from a chaos knight kit.

I used a chaos legionary tabard and belt buckle that again fitted nicely underneath the G-man’s chest plate. This added to my overall approach which was to keep the original imperial armour mixed in with the various chaos icons.

Similarly, I kept the imperial seals but repainted the stamps my usual yellow green but made the seals black.  This came out well.

I liked the scenic base of the original mini but decided to wrap the imperial eagle in rusty barbed wire with an extra strand across the front of the base. The chaos marine was painted in a black and gold combo for its contrast and slight homage to the Black Legion.

My painting followed the approach of the rest of my Alpha Legion with the exception being I used a few washes of blues over the silver trim of the armour and over the tentacles and cables.

I am very happy with the combination of imperial and chaos iconography across the mini as truly representative of the schism within the Alpha Legion.

I have not used Abaddon before so let’s hope he is as dealt as his datasheet appears. He will be joined by ten Chaos Chosen tooled up with a mix of combi and close combat weapons.  To prevent sneaky strategems our old mate Cypher will be shadowing this mighty new Lord.

Alpha Legion Rhino 2

 After picking up some second hand Alpha Legion rhino doors and hull at a swap event, it was time to get them on one of my spare rhinos.

Although my first Rhino had a heap of chaos spikes I kept this one a little more toned down and just added a back pole with a skull and necron head.

I loaded this one up with the combi weapon as I reckon the anti infantry is the way to go.

Painting followed the approach of the first rhino with the alpha legion symbols painted in the yellow green combo used across the rest of my new army.

I addrd a few more transfers from the legionnaires kit to break up the green blue of the hull.

I have a tournament coming up that only has one rhino in the list at the moment so it will be a tough call which ones stays home and which one drives around the Alpha Legion Rubic Marines.

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.