Lissanne's Rainbow Warriors- Wrap Up! The Rainbow's End

So my 5th OWAC comes to an end, with an unbroken string of victories and no mulligans!  My goal was to complete all the figures necessary for a series of Space Hulk games using Rainbow Warriors, while doing a 2nd legion army full of equality and eco friendly pony loving marines! Rainbows are fun!  Rainbows are hard....I didn't get all the vehicles done I had intended, like another rhino, a land raider and a bike squad, but I am happy with all I did get done!

So here is that Space Hulk list and pics of the finished models!
One Captain with Power Sword and Storm Bolter
Two Sargents with Storm Bolters and Power Swords

One Lieutenent with Storm bolter and Power fist
One Sargent with Storm bolter and Power fist

Chaplain with Storm Bolter and Crozius
Librarian with Storm Bolter and Force Axe
Techmarine with Storm Bolter and Photon (Missile) Launcher
Techmarine with Storm Bolter and Auspex

Two Termies with Heavy Flamers and Power Fists

Two Termies with Assault Cannons and Power Fists

One with Chainfist and Storm Bolter (I have 2, oh well)

One with Lightning Claws, and one with a Thunder Hammer and Force Shield (who was done previously)

And 7 standard terminators with storm bolter and power fist, and the other Sargent (front left) that ended up in the group shot.  There are actually 8 standards here, but what the hey!  More is good.

And those things not on the list

Terminator Hero Rainbow Dash

 The two dreadnoughts Cadence and Cascade

 Drop Pod Chrysalis

Skyrangers (7) and Grav Tank Azure Sky

QT Mark Crusaders (10) and Rhino Celestia

And the Baneblade Tarkus

 

Since I am doing a 12 squad challenge elsewhere, I have the Skyrangers to finish and another 10 person squad of marines.  I painted up a fancy space marine the other week who turned out to be a Primaris, so I think the final squad will be all Primaris.  No one is around in the fluff to stop Cawl from doing it, LOL!  So it isn't really the Rainbow's end, after all.

 This was probably the hardest OWAC for me since the first (cavalry...) but I'm happy to have gotten it done!  An endless line of intricate models all mostly alike is difficult and mind numbing, as it turns out.  But I can finish the last models (for the other challenge) more slowly..  And I have painted so much this month- only one Rainbow Warrior!

So Congratulations to all the finishers, be you a novice or repeat offender.  It never gets easier!

Lissanne's Rainbow Warriors- Cadence and Cascade (322pts) Rank and file month #3

 Nothing says old school 40K like scratchbuilt vehicles! This month I have a Drop Pod for my vehicle, the Chrysalis, and its occupants, which are a pair of Dreadnoughts and the 2nd techmarine!  I found these Dreads I didn't know I had in my stash, and felt the urge to paint them!  I admit, I got distracted from the terminators which I intended to do this month.  What's new?
Drop pods are legit vehicles in 3rd, but worth 0 pts.  Here is the Chrysalis.  I used an old official pattern, believe it or not!

 I started getting into this duality theme, dark and light, befitting the 2nd legion.  Represented by the light and dark unicorns of love and death. I'm going to carry it through the whole army now.

The Dreads are named Cadence and Cascade, I was trying for a lighter and darker blue, but really light blue looked awful.  Cadence is the lighter, with the light horse crest.  Instead of banners on the Dreadnoughts, I tried a knight's crest, these being unicorn heads (of course).  They fit with the dark/light theme too!

Cadence

 Cascade

In 3rd, only one Dread is supposed to be in a pod, and the techmarine should really belong to the other group of Terminators I had to do, but I thought this was a nice grouping, even though each dread alone is a squad, and the techmarine belongs to neither.  March turned out to be a bit more busy than I thought, and I have promised an extravagance to the Overlord for my Wildcard month, so Rank and File these are since they can be.  They are elite troops in 3rd, so it's all good!  

...and Pink Jade

The Techmarine is named Pink Jade, to fit with the song (Cadence and Cascade, and Jade).  This is the tech that is listed to have a Proton launcher, but since that doesn't exist so they got a missile launcher.   I also wanted to try a terminator with a horse head.  My Khorne termies have dog juggernaut heads, so....  I like the way it looks and will probably give a horse head to my hero next month.

So, the points
Chrysalis- Drop pod 0 pts
Cadence  Dreadnought 75pts + multimelta 40 pts  115 total
Cascade- Dreadnought 75pts + multimelta 40 pts  115 total
Pink Jade- techmarine 42pts and servo arm 30pts and missile launcher 20 pts  92 pts total

322 pt total

I think I will be doing my Leaders next month, I've been picking at them and it's a great way to get my big buffer back while not rushing!  I need a nice big buffer.  In May should be the remaining terminators and another larger scratchbuilt vehicle, and I have BIG surprise for my Wildcard month in June.  And there are always extras! (which since I am doing a 12 squad challenge elsewhere are not really extras.)  I plan to have 10 termies and 10 more marines stuck in there somewhere.  I really have to get back to that space hulk terminator list, the original point of this challenge!

For forms sake, here is the beginning to my May vehicle, and other starting shots for this month. since I didn't post them in the opening blog. 

Dreadnought and techmarine

Drop pod

And the May Vehicle start

 I am NOT making the mistake of assembling this one before I do paintings on the sides of this one (like I did with the rhino)  
Onward to Leader Month!

Shine like Rainbows- Lissanne's 2nd legion Rainbow Warriors Rank and File #1 (462 pts)

 

  

Here come the Wonderbolters!

Surprise!
Last month I started out with a goal of doing the 24 Rainbow Warrior terminators needed to play an old series of Space Hulk games.  I have a few done, but it is a very specific list, and needs a lot of conversion.  And in addition do some normal marines and vehicles to bring it in line with OWAC rules.
But in the intervening month my mission statement has expanded.  Turns out I will be combining this challenge with a year long challenge to do 12 units for an single army (any era).  So I am starting with the space hulk units and old school marines plus whatever I can dig up.  And vehicles.  Lots of vehicles.  Whodda thunk it?  A legit Rainbow Warriors army instead of one just for Space Hulk.  And so it grows.

 This month I decided to do 10 of the terminators when the OWAC is fresh, which should take pressure off the rest of the challenge.  I usually do a lot in January for that reason.  What was I thinking?  These are big complex models, even though I cherry picked the rank and file (storm bolter/power fist), avoided faces and most of the specials and conversions for this month. With blog and photography included, I just made it.  Whew!

But I have 2 Space Hulk squads now, a standard one to play with, and a less standard squad to start to fill that list.
These Second Legion  Rainbow Warriors are independent thinkers with a lot of personal iconography variations, heavy on wings, lightning bolts and stars (please don't call them cutie marks!).  As the marine is sitting in the suit, they come in big and bigger, with a corresponding amount of detail!  These are the Wonderbolters, and have MLP Wonderbolt names and a Pony theme will be running through this army.  And the personality and the personal icons of their namesake pony.  Not to mention that the Wonderbolt icon and Rainbow Warrior icon are identical!  Space Hulk terminators usually are deployed in squads of 5, 1 leader, 1 special, and 3 bolter & powerfist termies, who we will call normal.   Here are the 2 space hulk squads.
 

Whiplash and Fast Clip

Whiplash- lieutenant otherwise normal.
Fast Clip- normal Fast Clip & Whiplash always been in the same squad since they became marines.

Short Fuse and Starburst

Starburst- normal, great shot
Short Fuse-normal with legendary short temper

Crescent Moon the techmarine

Crescent Moon-Techmarine with bolter and auspex in the traditional (pale) red (Okay, it's pink)  
Got tiny servo arms for the auspex too!

Since the list of scenarios call for 2 different Techmarines, and I don't know of any Terminator techmarines except for Iron Fathers and Warsmiths, I converted.  I will be converting the other one too.

Squad 2

Firefly

Firefly sargent with the beaky helmet and power sword leading

Fleetfoot, Rapid Fire and Cloud Chaser

Rapid Fire- normal opinionated timid novice, always been smallish
Fleetfoot- normal, first and fastest
Cloud Chaser-normal,  a nimble marine, quick to the rescue

Blaze

Blaze the Highly Decorated with Flamer hot temper too

  Even though I avoided a lot of specialists, of which there are many on this list, it was still a rather hellish month.  These are big complicated figs, the list is very specific, and the appropriate models are often not available.  So a lot of conversions are necessary, and those take time.

   And there are a lot of rainbows on the back.

And how do I keep track of the names?

points
10 Terminators- 42 pts each
Servo arm and Auspex +32 pts
Flamer +10 pts
total 462 pts

  So... my new bright idea- the Vehicle of the month club, I love scratch building vehicles, so in each Rank and file month there will be a new vehicle or two + whatever figs I get done.  I'm not worried about points, and I will probably get a squad done anyway,  but the vehicle every month obeys the letter of the OWAC rules, and will allow me take my time and do a nice job with my special termies.  Which is the whole point of this challenge to me.

Iannick's terminator squad and specialists (702 points)

Do not fail your Brothers. Though their bodies die, their spirit must return to the Chapter. That is your charge.

Medic credo

Rank & file month #2

Woo! I finished this month's entry at the very last minute, with barely an hour left in February. In hindsight, doing the Terminators in the shortest month of the Challenge was probably not the best idea. These guys are not only big, but they have so much details!

It was also an extremely difficult month for me as last week I had to say goodbye to my best friend, my cat Leto. 19 years together is a very long time, and his passing really hit me hard. I had to muster all of my discipline to finish my February's entry as, frankly, the last few days the OWAC and painting little miniatures seemed trivial.

Anyways,  here they are, my squad of Terminators, including the iconic Terminator captain model, which was a blast to paint. I purchased these models, I believe in 1990 or 1991. They were not part of an army or anything, just a classic impulse buy I would so often back in the days (age hasn't made me that much wiser on those I must admit). I just thought they look really, really cool. Well, they still do. 

But I never did anything with them. For two reasons :

1. I remember having the toughest time gluing them together, the arms especially. My two part epoxy glue skills were a mess, and my father's trying his glue gun on them didn't achieve the results I was hoping for, either! 
2. Man were they indimidating! These guys were in every golden demon book and white dwarfs, and they had so much details I was so afraid I would screw them up!

So I did what any young hobbyist does, and put them back in the book, never to apply paint to them. 30 years later, they were overdue!

And while the gluing part went pretty well (death to two part epoxy!), they were still intimidating to paint. Those figures have a ton of details, and I would've liked to have a bit more time to work on them. Notheless, they look bad ass!

Close-up on Captain Leto 

I obviously went with my red templars colour scheme, but gave them the white left pauldron of my elites. I didn't do checkerboards or stripes, as is the tradition, but rather used my chapter's iconography and my trusted transfers. Time was a factor in that decision, but also I'm just not a big fan of hasard stripes. I know, pretty shameful for a Oldhammerer. I also wanted to give them a clean look and keep to my gold-red-white colour triad. I like them.

Close-up on some of the iconography

Next up we have a quatuor of specialists. I gave the Techmarines golden helmets and backpacks to give them a different look than the regular marines. Metallics seemed like an appropriate choice given their role. I'd love to know why the GW crew at the time thought techmarines should sport creature claws on the pauldron, it's a weird choice. But they are just such iconic miniatures.

The inspiration for my medics colour scheme came from the Ultramarines (Filippo will be proud) with a change or two. I really like them. The white and the red just pops. Although the white highlights are lost in the photography. I wasn't really happy with my previous white recipe so I tried something new and used GW's white contrast as recess shading, along with an off white as the main white and pure white for the highlights (did the same with my termies and techmarines) and I quite like the final results. My first attemps at using contrasts were quite disappointing but that white is a great tool. Good job GW. I may not like a lot of your new figures but your painting tools are often super useful.

I'm not sold on that banner...I realized at the last minute that I had no plans for that banner and I really didn't want to publish an unfinished figure! Panicked, I looked online for a printable banner and had little success. Even worse I realized I was out of red in my ink cartidge. Doh! So I came up with this. Not great but it will have to do. 

• 2 Techmarines : 34 pts
• 2 Medics (Champion) : 68 pts
• 1x Terminator squad : 450 pts
• Terminator Captain (Hero) : 150 pts

Total for the month : 702 pts (lol)

Next month? I'll probably take a break from the rank & files entries.