After painting the Eradicators and saying that scratched the itch quite nicely, I then bought some more marines fairly soon afterwards. In defence of myself*, a local player was having a fire sale of unbuilt kits after a domestic conversation and as I'd had some Blade Guard Veterans on the list of models that I really wanted but just could not justify the price tag of, and seeing some cheap it seemed stupid not to just pick them up**.
I have also been thinking about my current level of gaming., One big thing was that I wasn't doing much collecting/painting for the Imperial side of the campaign as we were fairly well represented on that side, but due to the lack of games and a lack of gaming venue, this has slightly shifted the other way, so I wanted to have a second look at my Aurora Knights and fill any gaps.
*Someone needs to defend me
**I was persuaded during the visit to pick up some unplanned bits but hey
This post is a few units that I picked up or have dug out of my own backlog and got ready for the table and to fill those gaps.
The first unit are the Blade Guard Veterans that set this little debacle off. These have been painted as fairly standard 1st company vets for my Aurora Knights as seen in my Sternguard from the Leviathan boxset. When it came to the shields, I gave one a Ukrainian flag (as the guy selling the models has links to the war), a Norfolk flag (as I decided to buy these while in the county) and the last guy has a bit of a placer shield while I try to think of something else to do.
Next up is an Invader ATV, which has been in my backlog for far longer than I am happy with. It came from a partworks magazine - not sure if it was Conquest or Imperium - but it was something I wasn't ever going to buy full price, but a tenner made it worth picking up. It was another model that I had painters block on trying to decide what should be gold and what should be mechanical. Now I have this, it probably needs a squad of Outriders to go with it.
Next up is Captain Hippolytus of the 4th Company. I was chatting to a mate and he was working out a campaign for these space marines to play in next year***, at which point I noticed I didn't have much in the way of regular leadership for the Aurora Knights 4th Company - the glaring missing entry was the captain himself****.
I decided as a rule of thumb, that I can break at my own leisure, battle company captains would wear Gravis armour (sort of baby Terminator armour) and reserve company captains could wear regular MKx armour - just so I can use what ever models I like but feel like there is a system. Hippolytus is therefore wearing the best in non-terminator armour the chapter can supply, with a cloak in his company colour and an ancient chainsword, once welded on Terra by a hero of the heresy*****.
***which I am pretty sure won't happen
****I do have a captain model for this chapter, but as he is in terminator armour, I want to keep him as the 1st company captain.
*****any rumours that a shrine world is missing it's star relic are unsubstantiated by the chapter
Next is the Apothecary Biologis, from the Leviathan boxset. This model was so close to being finished before he must have gotten caught up in a tidy up session and packed away. I finished the last few bits and added the decals. He isn't perfect, but he is done.
Lastly for this post is a model I painted a few months back on a whim, wrote a post for then didn't ever take a photo of, so he's been lumped to the bottom of this one. When we finished the Fratribusia campaign, I found some decals I wanted to use for any Imperial forces who had taken part (the crab claw with the skull on the banner) and the more I thought about it, the more a banner for the company that I got add campaign markings to as I went, made sense.
And yes, I do have more in the backlog for this project . . .
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