Heretics!

Part Two

The 2nd and 3rd gentlemen from the left are the only metal models in this unit.

Previously on 1st Legion Chronicles ...Staring down my first ever entry into the Nova Open and knowing I would be playing next to the corrupted forces of my friend's Death Guard Army I was unable to bring myself to field my Dark Angels army in concert with the decrepit heretics...

There was a solution to my problem that would involve a race against the clock hobby project for what remained of the spring and the summer before Nova 19 in August.  When 3rd edition 40K came out in the late 90's my brother, his dad, and I played 40K on an almost weekly basis for a few years.  At the time my brother played a Chaos Space Marine army as they were known in the days before the addition of extraneous latin for the purposes of copyright differentiation.  His army served him well for a few years and traveled with us along with mine when we moved to Colorado in 2002.

Spaceships Are Not Supposed To Be This Close Together

Part I - Rebels, Slave I, and the Quadjumper

Boba Fett must really want the bounty on those Rebels...

The first in a ongoing series of pictures of the X-wing miniatures game and the sometimes crazy positions the ships get into relative to each other while jockeying for the best firing solutions.  My X-wing playing friends live a lot closer than my 40K playing friends and it's a very quick game to set up and play, so as you can imagine I play a lot of X-wing.  Fantasy Flight has really improved the game with the 2.0 version, it's nice to get to enjoy all the ships in the game as opposed to constantly getting crushed by whatever killer squadron lineup is currently dominating the meta.

Merry Christmas Imaginary Friends!

Sometimes you spend hours researching for a particular post and then others times the internet hands you beautiful things like this Festivus miracle...

Heretics!

Part One

What?! The foul forces of chaos on this blog!  How has this happened?  Is this blog now under the unspeakable influence of the fallen?  Even now the Ravenwing are zeroing in on this location to cleanse the cursed stain of the heretics.  I will save the inevitable long story for after the jump, fortunately there are lots of pictures of models to space out my overly wordy explanation of my descent into the renegades of chaos...

Most of these models are from the 3rd edition plastic Chaos Space Marines box.

Crossing the Rubicon Primaris

Rapidly becoming the second most over used phrase after "perfect storm", I feel like someone needs to send GW a note to point out that if everyone crosses the "Rubicon" then it ceases to be significant.  Has a sacrificial lamb of a current character tried to become primaris, failed and died yet?  I bet when the Dark Angels eventually get their new codex supplement one of the many named 1st Legion special characters is going to bite it in the name of Rubicon crossing consequences.  However that's enough old man griping for one post, onto the pictures of the models...

Uncle Ezekiel wants you for the 1st legion!

Interrogator-Chaplain Sarpedon

This fine example of classic GW sculpting is my first fully finished HQ model for my Dark Angels army.  He was completed earlier this year, but since this blog didn't exist then I thought he would make some good post Thanksgiving content.  What says appreciating your blessings more than a chaplain of the God-Emperor's faith covered in skulls?  There is a great Voxcast episode where Jes Goodwin explains that  all the skulls ever-present in the art of the grimdark is because when the face of your god is a skull, then the skull becomes a holy icon (paraphrased poorly).

Is there a unit of measurement in the 41st millennium that tracks skulls per square meter?