Sunday, August 25, 2013

Pre-Planning My Mechanicus Army


Friday night I was at my FLGS here in Vegas and decided to order my initial batch of Iron Brotherhood minis.  I have searched for pictures of other existing armies for inspiration and have discovered some beautiful work out there.  Until FW or GW come out with a full list I have decided to base my army on Codex: Necrons.  I felt by using that codex it would help with the advanced technology feel of the army. 

Magos
 
This is the first guy I ordered and will be my counts as Necron Lord.  The only thing I plan on adding to the model is a Mechanicus style warscythe. 
 
Praetorians
 
Was thinking about running these guys as Necron Deathmarks.  I like the model so I probably won't be doing too much them.
 
Skittarii
 
To make a legal army I went ahead and ordered 10 of these guys and will run them in two squads of 5 Necron Immortals.  I think the model is fine as is, so I probably won't be doing any conversions with these either.
 
Weapons Servitor
 
These are the last models I ordered.  I was having a difficult time thinking about what to run them as so I am leaning towards Necron Heavy Destroyers.  I definitely want to add ranged weapons arms and a power pack of some sort.
 
 
 

Future Plans will included filling out the ranks of my existing units and adding more units.  The two pictures above are models that I would like to get eventually.  Since the model range is limited I plan on adding simple modifications to represent different units.  I would like to add a flyer eventually but I am having a difficult time finding a model that would go along with the theme. 
 
This is not going to be a competitive list and will be for friendly games at my game store because I know some of the model are not the best at what they represent.  I play 40k for fun and the last thing I want to be accused of is modeling for advantage.  I'm doing it to satisfy my long fixation with the Mechanicus and as a fun side project to go along with my existing 40k armies. 
 
 
I may consider using these bits from Kromlech if I can get ahold of them:  http://www.kromlech.eu/
 
  
Here is a link Hortwerth's fantastic Iron Brotherhood army that really inspired me and really pushed me over the edge to go ahead with this project: http://s6.invisionfree.com/adeptusmechanicus/ar/t80.htm 
 
 
                                     
I wanted to share this video again just because it's so cool.
 
 

 


 

2 comments:

  1. Nice! So good luck with your army. I look forward to see pics. :D

    Will it be a Loyalist or a Dark Mech army? Anyway this will be cool. You could then use them also for HH games, as the Mechanicum schould be featured in the next book.

    Thumbs up!

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  2. Hey Knight!

    It's going to be Imperial, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make them Dark Mechanicus ;)

    I'm mostly doing the project to hold me over until they have a full AM list from FW, so hopefully we won't be waiting for too long! I'm aiming for 1750pts, but I'm not sure what kind of model I can use as a flyer that would fit with the overall look.

    First models may be in this week if so I'll post pics soon!

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