Horus Heresy 30k Blood Angels Tactical Squad 2

 More photos - this time of my second completed 10 man Tactical squad. They also have a Rhino, but this time it's an old 2nd edition one! A classic model! 

If you've been around Warhammer, you'll recognise how many of the Heresy weapons and different looks were inspired by the older models in the range. The new Deimos Rhino is a good example as it's basically a rehash of the Rhino from the early 90s. Equally, a lot of the heavy weapons are variously different variants based on old models. 

As I was looking to capture an older Rogue Trader/2nd edition look with the force, I've tried to sneak in a few classic models where I can. 

The Tactical squad themselves use the new mark VI Marines pretty stock. I'm consciously trying to let the paintwork speak for them, so I've kept conversion to a minimum. I think in this squad the only additional item is the chainmail loincloth on the sergeant. 

In addition to looking nice, I've found basic Tactical Marines to perform rather well on the field!

If you like these guys, come back for more later when I'll be showing more of the finished force! 

Heresy Blood Angels - Tactical Squad

Once again, I'm back after a seemingly long hiatus. What you won't know is that I've been busy behind the scenes working on a batch of heresy era Blood Angels!

When the new box set dropped a month or two ago, it really peeked my interest- I've always liked Heresy, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to go all in on the "big box" - handily it was easy enough to get a hold of 2 Tactical squads and a Praetor new on sprue on eBay for just under £50 - a sort of Start Collecting set of my own devising. Needless to say, once I'd started, the collection grew and I've now painted 1150 points of stuff! (Army photos later...)

With it all building up around me, I figured I should take some photos, so here is the first Tactical squad with their Deimos Rhino in the background. I will take separate photos of the Rhinos later. 

You'll notice the colour scheme is a bit unique. When they said "Horus Heresy 2nd Edition", I just heard 2nd Edition - and hit the old 90s books for inspiration. I've never been a fan of Blood Angels and their famous gold nipple armour - the ones I loved were the bright orange, blue and yellow space vampires of my childhood, and I've tried to capture that sort of feel. The helmets are Rogue Trader inspired with their stripes. 

I did go berserk with the freehand. Each man has a striped helmet and 2 panels of either cheques or black flames that I painstakingly added by hand. They all also have numerals on their helmets on the centre stripe with the legion number as well as hazard striped saw blades. Luckily old fantasy equipped me with the powers of batch painting to see me through!

I converted the sergeant with a few choicw spare parts

My background for the colour variant is that they are a post Heresy force that has adapted a different scheme of helmets to make it less obvious for their marine opponents what their battlefield roles are, and to stop them from being able to assassinate their leaders - something like that.

 That's it for this squad - more coming soon!