Pictures join the thread

So I got some pictures taken with my phone, not particularly good, but as good as I can do for the time being.

I put all the guys together, some are painted and ready, others are part way there, and a few are still in their pre-Mantis Warrior guises (badly painted Space Wolves and White Panthers mostly).

First of all, introducing Ahazra Redth and his personal Sternguard entourage, Kopano Lesedi.

The sternguard are just normal plastic Space Marines, I am painting them with a base of Ork Hide, Overbrushing roughly with Snot green and then highlighting with Goblin green. The helms are Chaos black and an old citadel colour called 'Ash Waste Grey', which is quite similar to Rotting Flesh.

Ahazra himself started out as a pair of Space Wolf walking legs and a Space marine plastic body. I sculpted on (roughly, I'm not great with green stuff) a cloak, though it doesn't quite work, as he would not be able to walk very fast with the amount of material that is there. The head is from the old Khorne Berkerkers box (by old, I mean around the time the 3rd ed Chaos plastics first came out I think), I trimmed off the raised helm parts carefully, I really like the grill mouth on it, quite scary and ascetic looking. The sword is a Glaive Encarmine, I attached it to the wrist of an old SM biker arm I had lying around, while the Bolt Pistol is from a CSM. The hood and the gorget were made from green stuff, both of which I am rather proud of as they have come out well.

Secondly introducing the beginnings of Assault Squad Kefentse. This shows the painting scheme mentioned above a little better. The Jump packs have been highlighted with goblin green, but the bodies have only got so far as the snot green overbrush.

The two completed tactical squads. In the front, Squad Uuka, lead by Veteran Sergeant Uuka. They are ten strong and field a Missile Launcher and Meltagun for tank and marine killing. The plastic marines of the squad are made up of 2nd Edition and current edition marines, with 1 old metal marine (the melta gunner).

Behind them we can see squad Lefu. These also sport a Missile Launcher and Meltagun, and are made up of the marines from the 2nd Ed boxed set. As I said, I am in major recycling mode!

In the corner there you can see the yet to be painted marines for my third, unnamed Tactical squad.

Finally introducing the first of the LandSpeeder Tornados (Multi-Melta, Heavy Flamer loadout) and the first of the two Dreadnoughts. 

This has been a very picture heavy post, so I shall end it here and speak more about the background, the names and the future of this army in a soon to come blog post.