Relictors

[Hephesto]

Currently working, very slowly of course, on the third instalment of my Relictor army. I used to play these guys way back in the day and this army is something of a tribute to those good old campaigning days. This is also the reason why these guys aren't the normal Relictor grey. A combination of loving to paint shadow grey and a wrong colourscheme in some old WD drove me to lean more towards the Space Wolf colourscheme. I've since learned the error of my ways, but I figured I might as well stick with the old theme.

The first write up for this army was rather over-ambitious with several xenos merc, count-as units and a ton of big vehicles. As soon as I started building and painting again I quickly remembered my sluggish progres, general lack of free time and how cluttered the army would look. So I cut about half the stuff and most of the outlandish stuff from the list. There's still a few special things in there though:
- thunderfire cannon diorama
- eldar corsairs (count as sniper scouts)
- allied assault marine squad from the Subjugator chapter

But enough text, time for some pics. First up a general army overview, note that there's also a predator which is missing from this pic:


Scratchbuild thundefire cannon:


Eldar Corsairs (sorry for the crappy pic, camera was dying on me)


Lovely starter dread with a plastic devastator plasma cannon:

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Moving on to one of the objective markers:


An early wip shot of a second objective marker:


The first SM squad:

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Dozerblade Razorback (as you can see I just put stuff in there I like, not much of a competitive gamer realy):


Better pic of the thunderfire cannon techmarine:


Wip shot of the second marine squad (normal marines need some more work, they're a bit generic right now):


Scouts (not a fan of the normal, very bloated heads):

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Captain and librarian (starter captain with empire wizard bits and old tigerius conversion):


Sternguard:


Subjugator Assault Squad (Maxmini heads and jump packs):


Well as you can see there's still tons of work left and I've been at this for months already.....somehow I'll make it to the end with these guys though! Any comments, crits or suggestions are naturally always more than welcome!

[Slann]

I love the head swaps they are awesome .

[AsgeirArnald]

I love the head swaps they are awesome .

I totally agree. The objective markers look good too.

[Hal'jin]

Those are some nice SMs there, but I simply love those objective markers! I'm going to keep an eye out for this thread.

[Snarf]

Must say i like the conversions on the Sternguard guns. Post when they painted.

[2dØpe]

Those objective markers are fantastic, And thos conversions make my friends relictors look lame haha.

Keep up the good work!

[Hephesto]

Thanks for all the comments guys, those headswaps really do seem to do wonders

I'll keep updating as soon as some new stuff gets done. Finished those scouts 2 days ago, sadly my camera is a gonner so I'm waiting to borrow one from a friend in a couple of days. After that it will be time for some tlc on that second objective marker and the thunderfire cannon diorama.

There may be some scenery as well in a week or two. Entering a terrain building contest over at Astronomican, might as well make something that ties in with my current army!