Lonkelo dives into Kill Team

I completely forgot to update the project after I added some Vostroyan Cuirassiers to my Kill Team collection. Cuirassiers? Yes. This is me attempting to game along the gaps.

Since I built my Vostroyan Navy Breacher kill team to be a bit more generic, I was able to use most of them for a regular Imperial Guard kill team. This meant that I could either field two groups of seven guardsmen or two groups of Tempestus Scions, or a combination of the two. I went with the latter and decided I needed to make some minis that looked like how I’d imagine the Vostroyan counterparts of the Imperium’s Tempestus Scions.

I give you, the Кираси́ры, or Cuirassiers!

For these minis I again made heavy use of the fantastic Grognards from Wargames Atlantic, but with some parts also from the heavy weapons set, which allows you to have some of them kneeling down.

Tempestus scions are normally armed with hotshot lasguns, which I simulated by using old school GW Cadian arms, to which I added some bent paper clips as a power cable to their backpacks.

Like my other Vostroyans I used the following colours:

• Army Painter (AP) Speed Paints blood red for the coat
• AP Speed Paints gravelord grey for the fur hats
• AP Speed Paints hardened leather for…. well, the leather
• AP true copper
• GW leadbelcher
• GW nuln oil

To this I added some silver highlights to the crests on the helmets, to help them stand out more.

Sorry for the somewhat fuzzy photos. I only noticed just now… Anyway, from left to right: cuirassier gunner with grenade launcher, two regular cuirassiers and a comms cuirassier.

I’m especially happy with the cuirassier sergeant, however:

This was my first attempt at OSL and I’m not displeased with the end result. The lightning effect on the sword is somewhat disappointing, but the light effect worked out nicely.

Note that the arms I used for the sergeant are from the old GW Empire militia pack. I’ve used these arms on countless miniatures, both fantasy and scifi. They just work really well.

As a bonus, I remember @avernos saying I hadn’t managed to get the logo right on the bases in the past! Finally got one right! Can you find it?