Dreadnought Drop Pod.

This model is kind of a pain in the butt. none of the pieces are lining up right and for some reason it doesn’t like to stay together.

I’m going to have to pin it.

I cut the aquilas off since I’m planning to use this one in my Sons of Horus army. But I have another one for the Red Scorpions which I’ll get together for JMS in the near future.

This is the craziness of my Sons of Horus army and my excuse for why it’s been going so slow. 

In a moment of OCD I decided to pin every marine piece by piece so that I could get the most dynamic poses and make painting as easy as possible.

The previous images I’ve share of this WIP army the models appear to be put together - well in fact they are actually just pinned and one a single model has yet be glued. The benefit of this is it will allow me to paint all of the Secret Weapon Miniature bases in one group. then the Marines properly posed in another, and finally the boltgun (or other weapon) in a third.  It also allows me to do most of the detailing on the model while the weapon is detachable to allow better access to the chest plate. It’s not as important on heresy models because their isn’t an aquila to paint but that is OCD for you.

I am making progress on the Sons of Horus. I e decided to put out and remake 4 if the marines which I had done up in MkV and which them out for older marks.

None of the models are glued yet, everything is held together by pinning, friction and gravity. 
I did this do I could carefully pose each model and paint them without guns or other odd bits getting in the way.

Soon, very soon…

2000ish points of Sons of Horus are officially under way.

I have decided I am going to paint this army myself instead of insisting JMS.  It will be a long labor of love as I am going to pin every piece of every model for strength and easy of painting and posing.

I’ve been wanting to build a traitor chapter while they were still ‘loyal’ for a long time I never thought the Sons of Horus would it the first.

I thought long and hard about wither to build a Luna Wolves army instead of SoH but ultimately I decided to use Abaddon as the army commander instead of Loken or some one else.

Ultimately I will be able to switch out the 2 commanders depending on which side of the HH scenarios I want to play even though this force already is starting to take on a daily chaotic look with the spikes and what-not.

I do also plan to get a Horus Lupercal model once Forge World releases it… I hear he is Primarch 5 **

** still disappointed that FW has released Lorgar before Mortarion… but I digress