The Grand Return

After my month long vacation base jumping with the spider monkeys off Guadalajara (hey it’s the internet I can say anything right!!), I am back to update you all about my 40k projects. I know that you all have been waiting with baited breath to find out how I organized the rest of my Imperial Fist Army.

Squad Severus



When I first started making my Imperial Fists I wasn’t sure that I was going to expand it to be an entire army. I started with a tactical squad and I figured at worst it would look good in a display case. Because I hand’t quit thought about tactics yet, the load out was not very optimized for the army. It was more just the standard option from what I have seen other vanilla marines take over the years (mostly during 4th edition). I took a power weapon, a plasma gun, and a missile launcher.



In retrospect the squad is not very optimized for the way it plays in the army. The plasma gun is way overpriced, and without a melta or power fist I need to add melta bombs to the Sergeant. I like the missile launcher as a tactical heavy weapon but overall doesn’t pack enough punch to be a stand back heavy weapon.

Overall I see this squad as having an identity crisis. It is not quit strong enough to charge in, not quit powerful enough to stand in the backfield, not quit enough single punch to split 2/3 special weapons into a combat squad. In creating my army I tried to give all of my squads some personality. With such a non-focused weapon load out I decided that this was the youngest squad, and specifically had the youngest Sergeant. The Sergeant hasn’t quite figured out his identity and as such his weapons are non-optimized. In effect he has the “standard” tactical load out. I chose this to be the 6th tactical squad being the lowest on the pecking order.



In trying to give more personality to the Sergeant I tried to remember how I was back when I was a young/new leader in the military. In short, I was an asshole. I imagine the Sergeant as a strict authoritarian, but this masks his lack of experience. He is in no way inept (I mean he is a freaking space marine Sergeant by god), but against his other Sergeants he hasn’t quit found his way.

Tomorrow (OK maybe next week) my 2nd tactical squad.

Rix

Quality Control

I am officially done with GW primer. After spraying half of my assault squad I noticed some cracking in the primer. Thinking that it must have been my spraying technique (to far, to close, or something), I went about stripping those models and soon afterwords sprayed my razorback. SAME F!@%ING THING. If I'm anything I'm persistent. So I tried it again on a devastator squad. Yea you guessed it, imagine that.

After finally wising up I pulled out some random bits and attempted lots of different spraying styles. The conclusion, the primer was bad. I could understand if it was an old can, but I had just bought it. In my mind this is just inexcusable. For a company to put so much effort into putting out great models to then allow the PRIMER to destroy them......

Thank god for simple green. I think the models will come out OK, but the vehicle has too many long flat surfaces and I don't think it will come out right. We'll see.

Anyone know any good primers?

Rix