Rough and Reddy

After focussing on Fallout and Carnevale for the past couple of months, I decided to turn my attention, for simplicity's sake, to some models I've had assembled and undercoated for a while.

Namely a squad of Cataphractii Terminators for my every expanding Blood Angels army.

I say 'army' but in reality this unit is probably the most significant step in them becoming 'armies' as it will now push my Indomitus pattern terminators (the normal ones) into being a purely 40k unit, leaving just my Dreadnoughts, Baal Predator and Rhinos straddling both armies.

I've wanted to add some Cataphractii Terminators for some time, for several reasons.

Firstly, they look cool. Secondly, one of my character models is similarly equipped and mismatched armour in a unit leads to experiencing the worst aspects of both choices.

The third reason is that in the second edition of Horus Heresy, Cataphractii Terminators can take a Land Raider Spartan as a designated transport, whereas the Indomitus Terminators couldn't.

This seems to be simply because Games Workshop insist on making the units in the pdf supplements just a bit rubbish.

Anyway, this frees up a slot in the overworked heavy support section of my army, and allows me to use more of my units.

Their equipment is a bit of a mishmash largely because I picked the unit up of eBay.

I bought them pre-painted because it looked like, from the photo, that they were already painted red and I could quickly and easily touch them up to add to my army.

Unfortunately, the paint job of the models seemed to have been done by a blind badger in the dark whilst drunk, with thick layers of badly applied paint.

What's more, there are several areas of some of the models where far too much glue had been applied or there had been carelessness cleaning up the model leaving them a bit battle damaged.

In short, I think I've finally learned my lesson about buying painted models off eBay unless the photograph is really clear.

However, despite this, I managed to clean them up and paint them in my usual (tediously slow) manner and the will fit right in.

Additionally, I took the opportunity to paint a regular Terminator that I picked up for 50p at a show to add to my 40k unit.

I've realised I've run out of suitable transfers for his shoulder pauldron and so I need to source some more.

I will continue to add to this unit, taking them to a maximum 10 models as other come available.

Acquired: 15

Painted: 72

Lead Mountain: 705