I got back into the hobby after a gap of about 6 years late in 2007, as a result of reading the Horus Heresy novel series. Although I am yet to play a game since my return, I have gradually been putting together and painting a force comprised of different Space Marine Legions, Mechanicum troops and an Imperial Army contingent for display purposes (and hopefully someday gaming--am finding it hard to find other gamers).

Most of my stuff is very WIP (i.e. unassembled); I thought I'd use this thread to post stuff that's done, and maybe other threads in the main forum for individual model/squad logs. So we'll see how it goes. I also hope to submit various things to the Visual Codex threads.

My painting is still not as good as it used to be, but is passable... I'll start with some pictures of models I painted before Shroudfilm's photo tutorial, and hopefully we'll start to see some more regular updates from me!

The era for the force is, as a whole, just pre-Heresy.

Here's a veteran sergeant from the Sons of Horus:




I always saw their colour as a metallic pale green, based on text and description in Index Astartes, so that's what I went for; note this figure was painted before seeing any other painted Sons of Horus, else I may have gone for a more green scheme like Sotiros' excellent figures. I may or may not do the rest of thr squad like this. It is greener in real life; I blame the flash. And sorry for the mould lines...





This is my Iron Warriors devastator sergeant; I'm more pleased with the way this one turned out.





My Emperor's Children veteran sergeant--I am quite pleased with him; looks more purple in real life. The full tactical squad of 10 is now done and awaiting photography! A chaplain is on the way, too.




This last Astartes is the first one I assembled and painted. I'll try to pass the helmet off as a prototype. Not so amazingly pleased with it, but it's good enough for me. :) Four more are ready for painting.

About 50 marines of various kinds await assembly!