I've painted the space marines from my Legions Imperialis box, but when I get around to playing it, I'm pretty sure I also want to try including some Solar Auxilia tanks as allies.
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The first thing I did was rebase my Imperial Navy flyers from Aeronautica Imperialis for Legions.
I really like the dark green I painted my Aeronautica, and it matches my Titans, so I think I'm also going to make my Solar Auxilia vehicles the same color. I tried a base coat of Black Green and a drybrush of Luftwaffe Camo Green, but I wasn't really happy with the result, so it's plain Luftwaffe Camo Green for the Aethon Heavy Sentinels.
My reasoning is that both the Navy and Auxilia forces have been attached to Legio Venefica for so long that they've adopted the same color scheme for ease of identification.
Then it was on to the fun stuff: the tanks. I started with the entertaining lozenges that are the Malcador tanks.
And moved on to the Leman Russes.
With the basic rules, i.e. pre-Liber Strategia, there was no reason to take the basic battlecannon Russ over the Vanquisher, so that's how I built mine.
The Legions core set came with enough space marine tanks to build 2/3 of an armored company, and the Auxilia got the same. So I needed to pick up some super-heavies to be able to field a company, and with my regular Titanicus opponent threatening me with his Titans, I had to pick the Shadowsword. I built the other tank as a Stormblade, and they're both very handsome beasts.
And so here's my armored company!
Finally, since I have a pretty strong inkling that I'm going to be fighting a Titan Legion, I went and bought some Valdor tank destroyers. The shock pulse ought to come in handy knocking down void shields and screwing with the Titans in general, and besides, I really like painting little tanks.
I wanted to be able to paint the gun under the covering, so I left that off for priming.
And here's the end result.
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What can I say? I adore tiny tanks, and want to paint more of them.
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