Bugeater 2014

Alright, so this entry is a long time in coming, between being swamped and work and general lazyness once more.

This weekend I will be attending the 2014 Bugeater GT down in Omaha, NE and I will be participating in the team tournament on Friday. For the team I kind of tossed around several ideas for my 1000pt army, initially wanting to try out the new Tempestus Scions, but the amount of stuff I would have had to buy, build and paint in the time I had wouldn't have been feasible. In the end I decided to take a small Astra Militarum(Imperial Guard) Force, but I didn't exactly just want to take my old IG models that are already painted up and use them, mainly because I've become a better painter since they were finished. What I ended up doing was taking a squad of my old troops and stripping the paint from them, I took two of my Leman Russ tanks and finished them up with washes(Still don't and probably won't have them highlighted), I also added in a platoon of the new Scions, one of the new Commissar models and picked up a couple more pieces to finish out a Vostroyan squad so I could run a bit of a combined arms army.

My List:

HQ:

Lord Commissar - 65
Plasma Pistol - 15
Power Weapon - 15
Carapace - 5
Total - 100

Troop:

Veteran - 60
Power Weapon - 15
Plasma Pistol - 15
Vox - 5
2 plasma guns - 30
Grenadiers - 15
Total - 140

Veteran - 60
Power Weapon - 15
Vox - 5
2 Meltaguns - 20
Grenadiers - 15
Total - 115

Elite:

Tempestus Command - 85
Vox - 5
Standard - 10
Medi - 15
Volleygun - 10
Total - 125

Scions - 70
+5 Scions - 60
Power Weapon - 15
Plasma Pistol - 15
Vox - 5
2 Meltaguns - 20
Total - 185

Leman Russ - 150
Lascannon - 10
Total - 160

Leman Russ - 150
Lascannon - 10
Total - 160

Though I realize I'm 15pt short of my 1000, but it's too late to add anything, so ohwell.

And just finished as of last night, the completed army! I might get the Russes highlighted, but I'm working the next couple of days, so probably not.

Tempestus Scions: 10 man squad and Command Squad: (I have yet to come up with a regimental name, other than they are the 7th.

Close up of the Tempestor Prime and Standard Bearer:

Lord Commissar:

Leman Russ Tanks: (Ascendance and Line Breaker):

Vostroyan First Born:

Valedor 422nd Consolidated(My first Regiment, repainted to my improved level):

Now that I can sit down and look over the models that I've built and that I've painted, I have a few thoughts about the two new kits that I worked on, namely the Scions and the Commissar.

Let's start with the Scions. First off, this kit is absolutely magnificent to put together, all the arms and backpacks are paired up and numbered so that its a breeze to get the correct parts fitting together. I think the most trouble I had was with the banner bearer, had to bend the pole a bit to get both hands to fit properly, but it wasn't that big of a deal. As well, the sheer amount of pieces you get with this box set makes for a lot of great combinations of gear. Plenty of extras like knives, grenades, Imperial Primers as well as a huge assortment of heads. You get about 5 or 6 with berets and you get the same number with full helmets.

For the new Commissar, it may be a single pose model, but it does go together exceptionally well, with little to no mold lines showing up. It is definitely a model I would buy again just to try and change it up.

Thanks for reading or looking haha.