Mage’s Mantis Warriors – Updated 15/02/20 HQ Librarian Completed

I’ve had a box of two attack bikes in sub assemblies, two ten-strong Scout Squads and some Primaris Characters leftover from Conquest magazine. I chose not to add them to my Minotaurs and absorb them into my small Mantis Warriors detachment. They’ve been sitting in a box for a while and put on the backburner.

I was a little board with doing detailed characters for Arcworlde so am using these guys as my ‘B-Project’ for batch painting and doing more limited surface areas and textures. It’s been a breath of fresh air since the Arcworlde models have so much details and character compared to small uniformed groups of Space Marines.

The green is done bar touch-ups and I am starting on the yellow, skin and metal next.

It is not much of an update but I did want to get back into the habbit of working on and updating my logs.

It’s been a while! I’ve been busy and butterflying around different projects as well as sorting stuff in my personal life and avoiding forums. I’m back for a bit.

This is my Mantis Warriors Librarian. He will count as Ahazra Redth, the special character from the Forge World Badab War book.

He has had a head swap (with the Chaos Space Marine Master of Executions) and not been assembled with his foot rock. This had given him a haggard, maybe older look with his frame being haunched.

I like to think he had been drained from overuse of his powers over the course of the Badab War. Interestingly, he was MIA and his body never recovered. Maybe he was corrupted by Chaos and fled with the Astral Claws after the war and possibly became one of the first Red Corsairs Sorcerors…

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ahazra_Redth

I finished another couple of bikes from my Conquest Magazine series. Most of the models (the Primaris ones) have contributed to my Minotaurs Chapter army. The more scouty, fast, reconaissance stuff that is not primaris has gone toward my Mantis Warriors force on here. I envision Badab War games in the not too distant future 🙂

The Bikes were fun and quick to do.

Next up for this project are two Attack Bikes and ten Scouts with Bolters. These are in the process of being primed and basecoated respectively. Hopefully if I can get a non-rainy day (in Ireland, in Autumn? Forget about it!) I can finish priming some of them…

The second Landspeeder was completed a while back at the same time as the first one. I wanted to space out updating the project log and allow the previous post time to ‘breathe’as it were. Much like the first one, this one takes inspiration from the Rogue Trader style Landpspeeder and also has a diorama base of it hovering around ruins.

Regarding the diorama base, the base and vehicle were not attached. They were painted separately and then glued together before varnishing.

These were a lot of fun to paint and I might add some tanks in future as painting these vehicles was quick and fun.

A while back I completed a pair of Landspeeders but got sidetracked both updating this log and working on the army. Here is the first one. Enjoy!

These were surprisingly fun to paint. I converted them to resemble the Rogue Trader era Speeders. Next time I post they will be complete and have diorama bases

The second Speeder

The Sergeant and another Bine Squad member are complete. Not much to say other than enjoy looking.