1k sons/eldar/IH armies wip

[GriplionGremlin]

well not quite sure if i got the right area for this.
i'm looking to update ya'll on stuff i got going on. armies i'm building etc.

sooo here's my current 1k sons forces

overall:




Termies



1k sons (i like the old sculps)




Chosen (WIP from oop robed DA vets)


Dreads


Pread


Sorcerers



Bikes



Termie Sorc


True Scaled Sorcerer (i'm working on rebuilding his left arm. just didnt look right)


Biker Sorc (custom work still WIP - i've got a special idea for his left arm i'm still figuring out. so far having lots of issues making it work )





well thats them for now. still lots to finish painting but i think they'll be on the back burner for a while. still got my eldar i'm currently working on, iron hands and trying to get back to doing a solid core force of IW fully painted.

[GriplionGremlin]

Eldar

- no overall pic yet perhaps coming in next few weeks

Wraithlord (probably gonna repaint him in the future)


Banshees



Fire Dragons


Guardian Bikes


Warlock/farseer on bike


Reapers


Avatar (gonna strip and repaint. did green for shock affect but over all dont really care for it)


Eldrad (done more to him but no pics lately)


Warlock (done more to him but no new pics yet)


Grav Tank (2 of 7 all turrets are magnatized so i can switch them out between falcon, serpent, prism or some of the FW variants if i want)





more to come later as this is the army i'm currently working on.

[GriplionGremlin]

Iron hands


scouts
group 1 old sculpts


wip new plastic scouts

















think i've got somemore pics of them somewhere. i'll take a look.

[Barrakus]

I like the metallic blue wou picked for the thousand sons, when there done I think they will stand out nicely. I also like how you have so many in the pre heresy color scheme with the robes. that a nice touch.

[GriplionGremlin]

Thanks Barrackus

i wanted to do my 1k sons as a splinter that broke from the main force shortly after the rubaric was performed. I've got Ahriman that i've stripped and will repaint PH colors as well. i wanted them to be the PH colors for the Sorcerers who had thier psychic abilities bumped to show thier loyalty to the original legion and the automatons take the post heresy colors. i've seen some really good models that do all in the post heresy colors but i'm a fan of doing PH on the special guys. as for the chosen i've thought of changing them to post colors due to they would need to have joined the legion after the rubaric. then again i started painting them this way during the last codex where you could have chosen that were all psychers..... .... but those days are gone (for now atleast)

[BurnArt the Ravenbane]

You relly wanted to field a squad of all psykers? That'd be the ammount of points comparable to the ammount of money a wargamer spends on his hobby...

With the new codex, a lot of Chosen have acces to special weapons. You can model them in such a way thet their psychic powers are represented by the weapon rules, for example give one of them a long staff with a buring orb at the end thet will count as plasma rifle, paint some flames on the outstreached hands of antoher and use it as flamer and so on and so forth.

Repeating one o GW mantras, 'just make sure your opponent knows exactly what every model is armed with'.

[GriplionGremlin]

with the new codex i was looking at fielding them as normal chosen.
i have a bunch of speacial weapons and such so that isn't a problem.

besides a full squad of psychers is so much fun to run even if its just to scare the living daylights out of your opponent and watch him/her spend multiple turns trying to wipe them out.

with the old dex you have to remember that 1k sons troops were 2w no inv save and regular bolters with no weapon upgrades avail other than upgrading 1 guy to an asp sorcerer.

now with the new dex its not neccessary to do a squad of all psychers but if i could i would at least once just for the shock factor. and even then only in games that were strickly for fun (ie no tourneys or league games)

as far as how i play my 1k sons in 4th (prior to the 5th ed release) i played with a sorc in term armor, sorc on bike, 1 squad of 9 1ksons + asp sorc w/rhino, 1 squad of 5 1ksons + asp sorc w/ rhino, 2 squads of 4 1ksons + asp sorc, 2 units of 1 oblit, a defiler and 3 bikers with mark of tzeentch and 2 meltas. doesn't sound like much but that list took me to #1 in our 40k league and won me a box of the new plastic chaos termies...

and it also made an Emporer's Children player quit at the end of T2. its not my fault that i concentrate my fire and he tries to roll to go into cover from 5 inches away..... ....getting shot twice by ap3 bolters before he makes it into cover.....lost over half his army in 2 shooting phases and 1 assault phase.