#gravis

Last time I said that I wanted to finish these for a Pariah Nexus campaign this past Thursday. You will notice it is Sunday, and may be concerned that I didn't get it done in time. I in fact did, I just couldn't be arsed to type up a post.

In the order seen above, I present to you:

Chapter Master of my homebrew Chapter, The Fire Thieves, Draephecto. Veteran of the Damocles Crusade and one of the 23 survivors of a 250 year holdout, who are considered First Generation Fire Thieves. I'll explain that another time.

Carrahk’Aksa, one of the chapter's top techmarines, responsible for maintaining their air assets. Also a first generation FT. I'll show you his babies after I've painted the last one.

Ankarydios, an apothecary, maybe chief, we'll see how he does in this campaign. I don't really have any lore for him yet.

Sergeant Iknillitus and his Scouts. Following the chapters penchant for up-armoring and bolters, the scouts adopt heavy weapons and modified MK VIII helmets for increased durability and an intimidating flair. Noteworthy achievements include wiping out a band of chaos cultists and forcing a squad of chaos space marine legionaries to retreat during a kill team campaign.

These next two images are two versions of two characters, so while it's two painted models a piece, it's still really one unit or character.

Deucalion, aka 'The Duke', was the acting Chapter Master during the early years of the Indomitus Crusade. The first generation of the chapter was assumed to have been completely wiped out at some point, so when the Primaris reinforcements were sent out into the galaxy, the Second Generation Fire Thieves were given the identity to honor the lost members, or because it made the bureaucracy easier. Willingly, if not happily, he surrendered the title of Chapter Master when the First Generation survivors were rediscovered. (Left Old, Right New)

Gallicles the Steadfast, is a fucking monster. I like letting the dice tell stories, and they chose him to be the protagonist. He was the Sergeant of my hellblaster squad. His first game on the table, 2nd round, his squad was wiped out by a 6 man squad of boltstorm aggressors. He blew one away on my turn, and then proceeded to tank all of the shots from the remaining 5 the next round (he didn't remain up the round after that though). Hence all the bullet holes on the old model, and why I gave him the Deathstroke style half mask (one of the many bolt rounds took out the eye). His second game, his squad was once again wiped out, this time by kabalites. So for the shits and giggles of it, I had him rush out into melee and lock down a dark Eldar raider. The man managed to once again, make all the saves necessary and survived the melee combat for 3 rounds, locking the raider in place till the end of the game. Finally, a few games later, he managed to survive a round of melee combat with a Custodes Blade Champion. It was at this point I said, fuck it, this guy need a promotion to captain. My buddy playing said Custodes was so entertained by this he donated the castellan axe to put on his captain model.