With all the buzz about Great Crusade and Heresy-era armies these days, how could I not jump onboard with this? Picking a Legion was a no-brainer for me. Sons of Horus, of course! And make no mistake, this is going to be a traitor army-- the iconic Cthonian Legionnaires that are on a slide towards total damnation and ten thousand years of war as the Black Legion.
This is sort of an unusual project in that I want to be able to use the same set of models with two very different army lists. One is the Great Crusade/Heresy-era Legiones Astartes army list presented in Horus Heresy Vol. 1: Betrayal. The other, I haven't exactly settled on yet, but am leaning towards Codex: Chaos Space Marines simply because the squad makeup is overall most similar to the Heresy army list. The reason I want to make it playable using two different lists is because I want the army to be playable in a tournament and in pickup games where my opponent may not be familiar with the Forge World rules set.
So with that in mind, I'm building not so much to a given points limit, or even to a fixed army list, but rather, am building models in a rough proportion-- for every ten models armed with boltguns, bolt pistols, and close combat weapons, I will make one model armed with a special weapon, and one sergeant. This will give me the core of bolter-armed troops the Heresy list requires (Tactical Squads are exclusively armed with boltguns) while still providing me with the special weapons troopers I'll need to form special weapons squads out of the Heresy list and include special weapons in units when drawing the army from Codex: Chaos Space Marines.
A lot of people have commented on how there isn't a good painting guide for the Sons of Horus right now. Honestly, it's pretty damned simple-- you prime the model using grey spray paint, wash it twice with Coelia Greenshade, and then highlight it using either Reaper Master Series or Vallejo, which both make appropriate colors that won't require mixing four different shades as the GW guide calls for.
These are a couple test models. I've been playing around with weathering and battle damage, neither of which are things I'm particularly good or experienced with-- hopefully the grit and dirt looks like grit and dirt and not like air bubbles and smeared paint...
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This is sort of an unusual project in that I want to be able to use the same set of models with two very different army lists. One is the Great Crusade/Heresy-era Legiones Astartes army list presented in Horus Heresy Vol. 1: Betrayal. The other, I haven't exactly settled on yet, but am leaning towards Codex: Chaos Space Marines simply because the squad makeup is overall most similar to the Heresy army list. The reason I want to make it playable using two different lists is because I want the army to be playable in a tournament and in pickup games where my opponent may not be familiar with the Forge World rules set.
So with that in mind, I'm building not so much to a given points limit, or even to a fixed army list, but rather, am building models in a rough proportion-- for every ten models armed with boltguns, bolt pistols, and close combat weapons, I will make one model armed with a special weapon, and one sergeant. This will give me the core of bolter-armed troops the Heresy list requires (Tactical Squads are exclusively armed with boltguns) while still providing me with the special weapons troopers I'll need to form special weapons squads out of the Heresy list and include special weapons in units when drawing the army from Codex: Chaos Space Marines.
A lot of people have commented on how there isn't a good painting guide for the Sons of Horus right now. Honestly, it's pretty damned simple-- you prime the model using grey spray paint, wash it twice with Coelia Greenshade, and then highlight it using either Reaper Master Series or Vallejo, which both make appropriate colors that won't require mixing four different shades as the GW guide calls for.
These are a couple test models. I've been playing around with weathering and battle damage, neither of which are things I'm particularly good or experienced with-- hopefully the grit and dirt looks like grit and dirt and not like air bubbles and smeared paint...
