Escalation

Got a few nice bits from Forgeworld and Pig Iron Productions in the post today.

Despite not having finalised an army list (I'm stuck on HQ units), I do already know a lot about what vehicles I want to include. I really like the Manticore model and it also happens to be a great piece of artillery, so I'll be including at least one. I've been following the building of the Bishkek 2nd Manticore over on Santa Cruz Warhammer, looks great.

I also really like the Tank Destroyer model so I bought one of those also. According to the fluff, they are often destroyed, recovered and modified to carry battle cannons so I'll be running it as a 'counts as' leman Russ Vanquisher with a hull lascannon and KC Pask (or at least his non-union Traitor equivalent ;)). I might convert a bit to show the repairs and the Lascannon, maybe go for a co-axial mounted version... All in all, I'm planning to run the vanquisher, a standard Russ and an Executioner, possibly squadded up with a Demolisher depending on points availability.

Apart from that, I got some more renegade militia torsos as I will need at least 20 to do the basic squads for an Infantry platoon. Another 10 will be enough for all the heavy weapons teams. I'm thinking autocannons or heavy bolters and maybe a few missile launchers for these.

From Pig Iron, I got some nice gas mask heads and some of the Feral Infantry Militia to use as penal legion troopers. I think a few people have had this idea already, but I still like them. Also got some backpacks etc.

I'm planning to do tank hunting Veteran Squads with the gasmask heads and Vostroyan bodies. This has, I admit, come straight from the Silent Company of Korsk, I really like the techno-archaic look and it will distinguish them nicely from the standard troopers. Bit of work to be done on them though as they need to be de-imperialed and I need to get some more flamers to convert into Melta Guns. Time to break out the dremel I think.