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Salamanders update (with pictures!)

I’ve been consistently building and painting, and I swear it never seems like I’m making progress. There’s a lot more green marines, though.

I haven’t played a lot, but when I have, it’s been better than the beatings I’d been receiving. With a few exceptions, though, my opponents weren’t very good. One of my FLGS (Comics & More) attracts a… younger… crowd. I seriously don’t know where 8-15 year-olds get the money for this hobby, but they do. Playing them is one part teaching and one part vengeance for all the time I had my backside handed to me by 12-year-olds at Magic: The Gathering (which I said good riddance to in order to finance my Crimson Fists). If nothing else, it’s good practice.

My best match came with my Salamanders against Nids, played by a quite worthy opponent (who usually plays Chaos). We were both surprised when I wiped him out on turn 4 – Apparently, bugs burn and are squished by thunder hammers.

My Blood Angels trounced another Nid player and two Space Marine players (Sicarius/Tigirus and Lysander armies, respectively).

But, you’re tired of text from me. This time… I have pictures!

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This is Honoured Sergeant Tel’Yan, 6th Company Detachment. See what I did there with the name? I am soooo original. This model was fun (and is obviously not finished). I wanted the elongated barrel, stock and strap, so I cut one of the spare sniper rifles up and heated some plasticard. The camo pattern is straight out of my camo tutorial, using desert tones (Graveyard Earth, Kommando Khaki and Bleached Bone with an Ogryn Flesh wash and dotting with Chadronite Granite).

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Land Raider 1 of 2 (2 is still in the box), “We Are His Righteous Hammer,” is currently built out as a Crusader pattern. After my first Blood Angels Land Raider where I magnetized all of the weapons, I realized that I wasn’t very happy with the hurricane bolters. I had an extra set of sponson mounts (without the weapons) laying around, so I used the Godhammer sponsons specifically for the Hurricane bolters. The Flamestorm cannons and lascannons will share a separate set, which I have yet to build (all of my current lists use Crusaders, so I’m not in a rush).

The freehanding on the top uses an non-metallic metal technique. I didn’t use it on the rest, because I actually like the multi-angle shine that metallics give you. I went with it on the freehand, because I wanted it to look like it was actually painted on by the chapter.

Lastly, the Rhino chassis I spoke about in my last post:

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I messed up when I was magnetizing the Predator sponsons, and the only fix was to make them permanently Lascannons (which is about all I use anyway). Other than that, this has nearly every option I could think of (except for HK missiles and an extra Storm Bolter, that is). Not show are the Heavy Bolter turret, which needs to be primed, and the Dozer Blade that I forgot to put into the picture. I built it in such a way that I can clip it to any Rhino chassis. I’ve even got the lascannon/plasmagun combo in there. Next project for this will be a heavy flamer turret.

Here’s what it turns into:

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Now, I’ve got to go make a not-cheezy list for the next tournament. Because against these kids, I can’t justify 14 Thunder Hammer terminators, Vulkan, and two Land Raiders. It’s just not sporting.

Maybe I’ll get those Sternguard primed and ready.