Waking Dead

Well, so much for a weekly update! What with work and being away – twice – I’ve not had time for much in the way of miniatures. However, the last week or so I’ve been cleaning up my Chaos Space Marines army for a local campaign in a few months. I inherited most of this army from someone else, who I think inherited it from someone else himself, so some of these boys are quite old. And being old, they’re also in need of a little TLC…

The front two rows are my attempts to salvage some vanilla Marines with Bolters. There’re two Aspiring Champions in there with Plasma Pistols and a couple of regular dudes with Plasma Guns. I need to clean up and re-assemble another three Bolter Marines and they’re good to go as two squads of 10.

A little further back are my first three Raptors, including the unit Champion with twin Lightning Claws. I’ve got another Raptor with Bolt Pistol and Chainsword to assemble and one with a Meltagun, then that squad’s also complete. I’d like to get my hands on a Raptor Lord to lead them, but he can wait.

The next row back is a vanilla squad of Havocs, as they come out of the box. I never use these guys, but I own them so I thought I’d at least assemble them. Not sure what I’m going to do with such a mix of weapons; maybe they’ll see an Apocalypse game at some point…

Finally, the back row contains a Lord with Power Weapon and Plasma Pistol, and some Chosen. I’m still missing a few special weapons so I can’t finish that Chosen squad just yet, but so far we have an Aspiring Champion with Power Weapon and Bolt Pistol, and a regular guy with the same wargear. The other two are both armed with Plasma Guns. My plan for these is to use two squads of two, one with Plasmas and Meltas and the other with Flamers and Power Weapons.

Once I’ve finished with this little lot I’m going to sort out the pile of Khorne Berzerker bits I have lying around on my desk, and pick up another pack of Death Guard sprues from Forge World to convert up. My next major task after that is to assemble the two Defilers I still have on sprues, and then we’re back to clean-up. Who knows, maybe I’ll get back to painting them before the end of the year…