Manic Monday # 22

 Modeling done this week.....nada once again. Family commitments and work kinda too the thought away. Honestly I have alot of stuff I am putting off doing that needs to get done at the house. 

A few weeks back I  entered a contest sponsored by Fallout Hobbies and Friday it was announced I won a free Custom 3d print of shoulder pads and various doors including repulsor class doors. I sold my Repulsors a little while ago but still have the Executioner variant. The hard part was deciding on what chapter to do. The Executioner does not fit my Raptors. It was currently assigned to the Mortifactors but hey have thier shoudler pad icons already. So I went with Exorcists. 

Warhammer Community just dropped another Piety and Pain preview. 

Nothing new here same old pictures

Now we have stats and some rules for the models.....Exciting.

Along with this previous Drukhari preview  things are starting to heat up with 03/20 only 12 days away....

White Dwarf 162 Index Astartes: Exorcists Preview

 So Warhammer Community dropped a bombshell that rocked the Grey Knight and Sons Rogal Dorn 40k Community. As a member of both I am happy for the annoucement. 

From Warhammer Community page 

Index Astartes: Exorcists

The Exorcists have long been held among the most controversial Chapters of Space Marines, and with good reason. Forged from the genetic stock of the Primarch Rogal Dorn, they share many of the stoic traits of Imperial Fists successors. Yet, they’re also possessed (quite literally) of a unique quality unlike that of any other Chapter. 

Were the wider Imperium to learn the source of the Exorcists’ apparent resistance to the otherworldly powers of Chaos, they would undoubtedly declare them Traitoris Extremis and purge them from existence.

You can read all about their shocking lore, then field them in battle thanks to an official rules supplement for Codex: Space Marines, which includes their bespoke Chapter Tactic, By My Will I Deny Thee.

So Exorcists are no Longer rumored Successors to Grey Knights but are confirmed to be Imperial Fist lineage. This makse sense to me as Dorn was the last known surving Primarch and knew the power of the warp and Daemons. 

I am really looking forward to building my mostly Gravis Exorcists army!

Maniac Monday # 19- Huge update..... part 1 Wednesday and Thursday's projects

 So I was super busy in the modeling world this weekend. So much that I have decided to break it down into 3 posts. 

But first this Surprise post from Bolter and Chainsword Rumor section

Nerdgasam

I do want an Exorcists army...Maybe it should be my All Gravis Faction. Hopefully their rules don't suck.

Enough Digression......

So I spent Wednesday and Thursday, adding shields to all the Terminators and Paladins, drilling out  stormbolter barrels, adding grenades, pouches,Tabards, chains and Crux terminatus to the 2nd Paladin Squad, green stuffing purity seals and adding skulls, skeletons, bricks, I beams, pipe, greenstuff rubble, to bases with the plan of priming them of Friday. 

Terminators

Inquistion

Librarians

Librarians

Navigator, 7th Brotherhoo Ancient, Librarian

Terminators and Paladins

Paladins and Terminators

Servitors 

One this was all accomplished I called it a night. 

Exorcists project

So Exorcists were being worked on....ie Removing magnets from the "psilencer" heavy gunner. I have decided not to magnetize everything but continue up scaling and conversions I have planned.

The project is restarting as a Kill Team Campaign roster listed as such:

Leader- Justicar- Dual Falchions
Specialist- Veteran dual Falchions
Specialist- Zealot Dual falchions
Specialist Combat- Dual Falchions.....see a trend here
Specialist Comms- Psilencer or PSycannon have not decided yet
Specialist Heavy- Whatever the comms does not get
Specialist Demolitions- Incinerator
Fire team: 2 Justicars (1 halbred, 1 Daemon Hammer), 6 Grey Knights (1 Warding staff and the rest will have halberds I believe)

My kill team is just under 300 pts....for this roster. With Rogue trader and the commander rule I can add my Planned Conversion of FW's Knight Errant Tylos Rubio as my future commander....but wait


15 grey knight strike models, 3 justicars, 3 heavies........that means Exorcists tactical Demi Squads 1-3 will be done and since Tylos Rubio is in Power armor it can be my Brother champion......BAM Patrol and Kill Team done

now to get working on them

But lets talk about Tylos Rubio real quick and my palns for him:

Parts Break down

keeping the head and his Psychic Hood and torso torso to be chopped below belt and at thighs to extend height

All this will go to the bits box...

I'll add a MK IV helmet to his belt and some other doodads and I am using this model's load out for him

Exorcists continuing saga

I've been thinking do I really need to magnetize everything?

This project has stalled but now that the decals are here, I am hopping to get time to work on them and My "Eversor Scion" Kill Team, and Adepta Sororitas

WIP of Justicar

Crazy Work Schedule is over.....back to 5 8 hr shifts..........

So to celebrate I started working on my Exorcists (count as Grey Knights) Kill Team/ Army. 

Brother Justicar Dradon Andref of the 1st Tactical Strike squad With his Nemesis Daemon Morning Star (Hammer) 

His arms, head, backpack, and melee weapons are all magnetized. I added the Justicar GK Hood to help further distinguish them as GK on the table top.

Still have to do all the GS work (gaps, tabard, and pruity seals, but over all Im happy with him so far. 5 more guys to do for his squad. I need stronger arm/ shoulder magnets. Also I went with a 1mm thigh spacer which keeps him a tad shorter than a primaris marine which was the goal. 

Exorcists build ideas

So after talking with my regular opponent last night, he agreed that with all the little changes I'm doing that changing all the blades and not the just the hammers needs to be done to give it that extra flair. As a cost saving choice I will be making the weapons out plastic card.

As an idea here is what I'm thinking the shapes will look like.

All blades will be similar to this shape and be a little bit modified. 

Add the belt feed wrist mounted storm bolter, nemesis weapons, pouches and this is what Justicar Dradon Andref of the Exorcists 5th Company, 1st Tactical squad will look very similar too. 

Justicar Andref and his squad will pull double duty as a Kill Team and as the main squad or my army

Also we decided to build the army in 500 pt blocks instead of the normal 250 as it allows more variables. The planned list does not use Paladins so I think my terminators will be painted in this scheme:

If I decide to run Paladins I will not paint the regular terminators shoulder pads black. 

Exorcists planning continues.....

Well the plan continues on pace as expected and the first 6 heavy bolters and 3 boxes of 5 man Strike squads have arrived.

I have decided to change out the weapons some what.....to give them a more brutal look. Still deciding if I want to spend the money and by Dark Elf weapons or design them myself. The hammer heads will be replaced with maul heads from the Dark Angel Deathwing knight sprue.

I'm gonna buy a sternguard heavy flamer and possible a grav cannon for the Incinerator and Psycannon conversions.

Exorcists plan keeps on rolling.........

So I have been reviewing some the tactics and build guides online for the Grey Knights.....I don't expect to win but I rather have a cool looking army at the end of the day that I built and painted.

So the build will initially be for 40k Kill Team made up of 5 Strike squad members. Looking back at Grey Knights, they have changed quite a bit since their first full codex. This does bug me. As 40k evolves things change, armies change tiers etc it is part of the evolution. With Grey Knights this hurts the army as you have 3 Dedicated Boxes, and by "Dedicated" I mean only available to the Grey Knights, for the Army:

• Nemesis Dreadknight- Builds NDK or with some conversion work Grand Master variant.
• Terminators-  Builds Grey Knight Terminators, Paladins, Banner Bearers (both versions) and Apothecary.
• Strike Squad- Purgation, Strike, Intercessor, and Purifier Squad. 

The weapon load outs keep changing in ability and point value.  A Marine with a bolter is a marine with a bolter. A Grey Knight with a halbred used to be scary now not so much. Plus with the various weapon load outs available it is hard to chose the right load out on the model.  Some games I may want the attacks on my guys some games I may just want to cleave armor for the squads. 

Strike squads box sets consist of 10 dudes now (used to be 5) and you get 4 sprues of parts. Here is the list of weapons you get:

1.  6 pairs of Falchions
2. 2 Daemon Hammers
3. 2 Ward Staves
4. 8 Swords
5. 6 Halbreds
6. 4 Psycannons
7. 2 Incinerators
8. 2 Psilencers
9. 16 Stormbolter arms

My plan is to run a Strike squad as the following: 

• Strike Sgt- Storm Bolter, Daemon Hammer
• Strike team member- Storm bolter Falchions
• 2 Strike team Members- Storm Bolter Swords
• Strike team member- Psilencer

But the amount of games under my belt this might not be the most beneficial load out I could take. and well the Daemon hammer does have the -1 to hit on a 2 attack model. 

Enter Magnets.....yes as nutty as this sounds I will be magnetizing my models just to deal with the "oh here are your new rules, that out date your load outs. 

Magnetizing guide for Grey Knights.

In the link there is a guide to Game Face Nation's 2 part Youtube video on how to magnetize Grey Knights and well any model. 

With the True scaling of the marines, Cinematic effects, rub and buff paint scheme, why not magnetize them too. 

Outside of Kill Team I am planning to expand it to  smallish army of Grey Knights starting at 500pts lead by a Brother Champion, Strike Squad (same as above), Interceptor Squad (Daemon Hammer, 2 Falchions, 2 Swords), and a Purgation Squad (Daemon Hammer 4 Psilencers).

From Games Workshop

Grey Knight Strike squad (arms, weapons, and accessories)

Mk IV Space Marines (Head, Torso, Legs, Shoulder pads, and maybe backpacks)

Since my Marines will be MK IV Space Marines form Betrayal at Calth, My Brother Champion will be based off of this model

All Models will be based on a the Sector Mechanicus Bases with a magnet underneath. 

PSilencers will modified using the PSilencers and heavy Bolters like pictured below

Zinge Industries Small Linked Ammo Belt (Pedro Kantor Syle) for my storm bolters

Armorcast Cinematic effects 

Storm bolters

PSilencers

Ginfritter Gnomish Workshops Decals

Squad numbers

From Chapter Customizer

Exorcists logo

Squad Markings

Shapeways parts

from The Reliquary 

Interceptor back packs

From Tight Bore Designs 

Ammo boxes for the storm bolter belt feeds. 

more ideas are floating around but not sure if i will do them......