tech priest auxilia take 2

I have been informed by one of my friends that the photos I took of the tech priest auxilia were a touch out of focus and blurry and did not really convey the real look of them so here we go again - hopefully these are better.

  and now some details of the magos within the tech priest auxilia

 and then we get some close up shots of a couple of the servo automata - the multi-meltas do feel somewhat large on the models, I have to admit when I first read about the unit I assumed the servo automata would be more akin to 40k servitors but this is what forge world have released and they certainly have a gribbly techno beast feel to them, just a little smaller than I was expecting.

 The overhead shots are trying to capture the candy coat metallic red effect I am trying to create on my automata, hopefully it should be even more obvious and visually impactful on the larger constructs as well as the knight and the tanks.
And now as an added bonus here is my archmagos dominus, just using the normal magos dominus model for this character but it is such a nice model I have no problems promoting him in my army to lead my legio cybernetica cohort.

 Again he has the candy coat effect on his head piece and I think it has turned out really nice, it is good to add another character to the army just to give my poor archmagos some support.

Currently in progress are four myrmidon destructors, 1 bombard, 12 thallax and 3 vorax as well as making a start on the 40k tech priest dominus who is going to serve as an archmagos reductor for my army to combine with the thallax to give me a ordo reductor element to the force. I feel the Vorax though when deployed in the legio cybernetica force and thus getting +1 initiative have the potential to absolutely decimate enemies in close combat, something I have until now been relying on the tech thralls to achieve.

Tech Priest Auxilia

So my friends and I have started making arrangments for another apocalypse battle, this one planned to be slightly more epic in scale as we are going to get as close to every model in our collections - due to this I now have a massive 'to paint' list which needs to be done in short order. With that in mind I have been painting some more mechanicum as well as assembling the plastics from my battle at calth boxed set (I have to admit these plastics are awesome and amazing value for money)
Here is the first results of this painting drive.

So that's a tech priest auxilia with 1 adept, 1 magos (third servo arm), 8 servo automata of which five are armed with multi-meltas and they are typically reductor to give them all tank hunters just to make those multi-meltas as efficient as possible.

I am also working on the magos dominus model who is going to act as the archmagos dominus within my legio cybernetica aspect of the mechanicum as well as four myrmidon destructors generally because they are about the best things in the mechanicum army. I have a bombard under way as well but that is a fair way off completion.

I have started assembly of the next set of models to be worked on, this is going to be 12 thallax and 3 vorax as well as continuing to work on the bombard and starting to paint the titan tech priest I recently picked up who will act as a magos prime in the army.

In terms of the plastics, these are going to form the core of my iron warriors army I am planning, they are the perfect allies for the mechanicum as well as being on the same side as the night lords bringing everything in to a coherent whole all with the sole purpose of bringing death to the false emperor.
I am planning on getting a couple more of the battle at calth sets, the economy of the models is really good, in fact I think it is overall better value than normal plastcs, especially when purchased from a local games store which is offering discounts for various reasons such as the one I use.

Tyrant siege terminators in all of their glory, the missile packs from anvil industries are perfect in my opinion for turning the terminators from the boxed set in to these bad arses and luckily the weapon options from the boxed set include more than enough power fists and chainfists to make the correct weapon selection for the unit. The characters are really nice models and I can see a unit of 19 tactical marines led by a chaplain as being quite a brutal force on the battlefield, I had not really appreciated the power of zealot until I was considering what to do with the chaplain model from this set and really read the rules properly.

There will be more posts incoming, I am for the moment getting painting in every day and thus making progress, I am not currently sure the rate of progress is fast enough to get everything I want ready for the apocalypse battle but I am hoping that the promise of this evennt will be enough to keep the focus in place so when I attend it is going to be with something close to 15,000 points of models including a reaver titan and a couple of primarchs.