Crusade!

So this project has not seen a lot of activity over the last year, partly as I was still playing catchup with what I had gotten completed/in the build queue, partly as some surgeries on my spine in June & July (don’t worry – it’s nowhere near as drastic as it sounds, even factoring in the reason for the initial surgery being to remove a benign tumor) have meant I just don’t have the capability at present to move the stuff blocking in my painting area.

So where do things stand for this force of crusading Imperials?

Well for starters the Custodian Guard were reinforced by a Shield-Captain and 4 Custodes bearing Sentinel Blades & Storm Shields. Combined with the 5 with Guardian Spears that lets me build 3 minimum sized squads at least.

The Space Wolves received a converted Ragnar Blackman (now sadly superseded by the  stunning Primaris version), built off of Krom Dragongaze with bits from  the various other Space Wolf kits, as well as a shoulderpad from Puppets War, as well as a Contemptor Dreadnaught (love the SW lore that they consider these chassis cursed), Njal Stormcaller, Great Company Ancient, Wolf Guard Terminators, as well as finally getting a pack of Grey Hunters painted with a somewhat darker countenance to them (these were started life as White Scars Veterans before the 13th Black Crusade campaign saw them earmarked to become Grey Slayers. Coming back to them I figured it might be fun to make them a pack who had rejected Ragnar’s assencion to replace Berek at head of the Great Company after his death, and had simply left Fenris to serve The Imperium as they saw fit, yet had now returned to aid their kin in  the wake of the devastation wrecked by Magnus’ plots). And then a bit of kit bashing saved a dreadnaught brought off Ebay that was in a right state, and saw construction of a Wolf Priest Terminator.
Lets put a pin in things there though as there will be more to come back to for the sons of Fenris…

Insert obligatory NO ONE EXPECTS joke here 😛

Oh, and a contingent of Knights from House Mortan. Gods I want to give that Preceptor a run – giving +1 to hit rolls for Knight Armigers and what amounts to a laser-shotgun? Yes please…

And some assorted model builds; Grey Knight Librarian & Chaplain, Crimson Fists Captain, assorted Astartes, Big Bobby G, and what’s becoming the core of a Sisters of Battle force…