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Legions imperialis – Imperial Fists WIP

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Like many at Woehammer, I’ve been hit with the Imperialis bug. Being a child of the 80s & and 90s, I have strong memories of its predecessors, Space Marine and Epic. So there was no chance I wasn’t going to be getting involved with the latest iteration!

I’ve collected Blood Angels since the 2nd Edition 40k box hit the shelves. The Box art of that edition really appealed to me, and I was instantly in love with the Space Vampires.

However, for Imperialis, I wanted something that would ‘pop’ a little more on the tabletop and a Legion that has a fair bit of character. I decided early on this would be the Imperial Fists. After all, who doesn’t love painting yellow?

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Though, you don’t have to go with the traditional colours of the Legion you’ve chosen. GW, as always have supplied many examples in their various Heresy books of individual companies within a Legion having their own paint scheme. With sometimes hundreds of companies to each Legion, it’s no stretch to make up your own colour scheme and head cannon to your own force.

In the end, though, I did plump for the yellow and decided I (like many others) would paint them on the Sprue.

I started by spraying the sprues with Greyseer and then applied Averland Sunset to all the Marines.

I used a watered down Agrax over the top of this and did a light dry brush of Yriel Yellow. Then, it was a case of painting in the blacks, reds, and metals. None of these colours I shaded or highlighted as doing this on 100 8mm models is unfeasible!

With them all painted, I cut them from the sprues and glued them to the bases. I used the GW dark base recipe as shown on their YouTubes.

With all those Marines you also get a few spare, and having painted them up I applied them to the base of one of my Warhound Titans (along with a mini of the month Rhino which I chopped up to look destroyed).

You may be struggling to find good examples of conversions and paint jobs for Imperialis, but one YouTube channel I’ve found really useful is LItbashing. Mattie only uses GW parts from the sprues or greenstuff, and as you can see below, there’s plenty of opportunity for creating those characters from the books.

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My First Legions Imperialis Look

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I was lucky enough to be able to look at the Imperialis sprues this week, and even put together a couple of the Sicaran tanks!

As you can see, these boys are tiny! But the sprues and build are immaculate. There were no visible mould lines, and the details to the minis are incredible!

The two Sicaran tanks I put together were built from 15 pieces, but they all went together with no problem at all.

My favourite aspect of the build was that each Sicaran tank came with a spare turret so that you could build both weapon options for both tanks. Well done GW! With a 2mm magnet to keep them in place, they’d be even better.

I’m very much looking forward to getting my hands on the boxed set of these and going to town with them!

For those worried about painting such a small scale, I’ll have a guide out shortly after the release, which will go into how easy painting smaller scale miniatures are compared to their larger cousins!

On top of the tanks you get tonnes of troops in the box! The troops have been designed to fit on the sprue so that you can paint them before you remove them. Almost all the troops come as a single piece model and the connection to the sprue is usually at the bottom of their base.

I’ve pre-ordered my copy of the boxed set and can’t wait to get cracking with a legion of Imperial Fists.