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.