Sisters of the House of Marik of the Order of Our Martyred Lady

Canoness Don Coin is well aware that in a real shouting match, the Chamber Militant of Casa Bonetti are hopeless outgunned.  So even as they were preparing to leave their priory, she sent messages to other Adeptas Sororitas Priories inviting any who felt inclined to join her mission to Devos IV and smite the heretic, the mutant and the traitor in the Emperor's name.

The Priory of the Oriente Protectorate has sent a delegation from its chamber militant.  This has been deliberately scaled so to not be refused, ie big enough to be worth having, but small enough, ie not enough to mount an independent action, to be a veiled insult to the Order of the Sacred Rose.

The paint on these was definitely by Golem.

Casa Bonetti of the Order of the Sacred Rose

Bishop Popper (of the Cultus Imperialis "The Tree of Man") is officially the highest ranking member of the clergy on Devos IV.  Militant General Zhukov's staff generously allow him to sit at planetary command level within the offices of the Plenipotentiary for Morale and Propaganda.

Having seen other arms of the imperium contribute to the war effort (and thus qualify for or be better positioned to grab a share of whatever spoils there might be), he petitioned the ecclesiasty for a little more muscle.

Just as 3422nd Army Group form up and begin to move from Camp Nuttar around the top of the City to there planned positioned on the eastern side, the Adeptus Sororitas of Casa Bonetti arrive at the Space Port in Acre (lacking the Departmento Munitorium clearance to land directly at Camp Nuttar.

Bishop Popper is used to those who serve the ecclesiasty following his lead at the very least.  He has been able to call on a body of militant mendicants to offer to the Departmento as volunteer priests to accompany Guard units to war.

Now all of a sudden, eerily reminiscent of the Militant General, he has got what he asked for, but no experience or idea of what to do with what he has been sent.  And his relationship with the canoness is so far a vox greeting as she reached orbit.  How things pan out from here is a matter of some interesting wagers in some corners of the imperial war effort.

Her Grace the Canoness Talamare Ineglese Don Coin is the Commander of the Casa Bonetti's Chamber Militant.  She is a somewhat enigmatic character.  She is scared of clowns, to the extent of shoot pict casters which show them.  In vehicular transport, she prefers to drive herself, eschewing being driven by anyone else, even when she is unfamiliar with the type.  She does not issue commands or make plans, trusting to her charges to know what it is they are supposed to be doing.  On campaign, she is perfectly happy to live on grapes, onions and vitamin suppliments. Obviously there is an expectation that this is perfectly acceptable for the rest of the Chamber. Like the rest of her kind, she is short tempered, over zealous, intolerant and suspicious. Aside from all of this, she is perfectly normal.

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” — Yoda

The brothers of the Lostwithial believe that they are not afraid of anything.  After all, they know that they are made to the Emperor's design, and they shall know no fear.

But this isn't about so much about Space Marines and their relationship with fear, as the Black Templars and their relationship with the rest of the universe.

There were once some rhino APCs, made to the usual STC on some Forge World and duly supplied to the Imperial Fists.  As bits wore out and replaced, in common with a lot military assets, Marine, Guard and Navy, the designated items may well have been reconditioned and refurbished so many times that there are possibly no original parts left.

These Imperial Fist vehicles eventually became Black Templar vehicles, honoured and revered for their history and venerated service, after more time has passed, damage is repaired and worn parts are replaced, there is no part of any of these vehicles left which ever saw an Imperial Fist. 

In the way such things work out, the Black Templars who had these vehicles no longer needed them.  Perhaps their crusade suffered losses which meant that these vehicles were surplus to requirements.  Perhaps the Black Templars were supplied with brand new vehicles to replace the bitsa parts and chop shop tired old rhinos they had.  And on a long campaign against a formidable foe, these old vehicles could be given, however grudgingly, to other Space Marines, however unworthy, to prosecute the cause and carry out the will of the Emperor.

But Black Templar crusades, even strike forces, are largely self governing.  What is established lore for some may be unknown to others.  The brothers of the Lostwithial have been made away that the Incandescent Coyotes (Hisitee Nou in their mother tongue) have three Black Templar rhinos.  And that the parts of those honoured and venerated vehicles which identified them specifically as Black Templar vehicles have now been removed and replaced, thus dishonouring those probably stolen vehicles.

Castellean Brodeep discussing, in a prayer fuelled war council, the three ancient Imperial Fist rhinos, lovingly cared for by the Black Templars, and the dishonour done to them now.  He is outlining the retribution to be enacted should the brothers of the Lostwithial ever come across the Incandescent Coyotes during their travels.

Not that I'm suggesting these valiant upholders of the Emperor's will angrily roam his empire, leaving nothing but suffering and ruin behind them.  All in his name.

I've got over 200 hours in Voss Pattern Vultures. All simulated.

So the latest four reinforcements for the Imperial Guard on Devos IV are actually technically members of the Imperial Navy's Close Orbit Command. 

The same heads as the Valk crews

Those cockpit assemblies are much more detailed that the ones I did for the Valks.

And into their flying stations. 

Lots of work still to do, but some meaningful progress is always nice.

It's possibly the future Part 3

This is the SPG with a barrel.  You'll recall that the hull was printed, horizontally split into two pieces. So the track sponsons are separate pieces as well. 

It's a purposeful looking vehicle, even in bright blue and white. 

So let's see how it looks in a single, tank like colour. 

There, now we're getting somewhere. 

So now for hairspray and some actual tank colour. 

It's possibly the future, Part 2

This is another, more speculative print by Steve's boy.  It makes an SPG.  The barrel didn't print nicely, but we have PVC tube the same as I used on the Mastercrafted StUG.  More of this in the future, too. 

So I'll leave you with a few more picts.  It certainly shows that 3D Printing has a lot to offer.

It's possibly the future Part 1

This was printed for me by the son of one of my friends, who being 11, must remain anonymous.  Not Steve, he's old and crusty like me, but those world is run by grown ups don't really need to be on the internet before they're ready. 

So this is Forpost D6's chimera hull.  If you search up Forpost D6 on shapeways, this is one of the wonders on there.  He'll print one out and post it to you for £60ish, but you can down load the file and print your own for gratis.

So Steve and I are chatting away and the conversation eventually gets to where his boy has printed his own Iron Man mask (pretty kool for 11).  I remember seeing this file whilst browsing and asked nicely.  So a couple of these were run off for me. 

The model, as you can see, is a pretty good facsimile of a chimera hull.  It comes up a little short and slightly narrow, but only 1 or 2 mm, as you will see in a future post, nothing that a bit of creative construction can't get round.  And it possibly protects Forpost D6 from legal action (?)

The striations on the model might be avoidable with a tweak of the printer settings, again not something I know too much about.  They are not a problem with regard to the model anyway.  

So.  On the strength of this (before I'd seen this print), I asked Mrs Zzzzz for a 3D Printer for Chrimbo.  As soon as we're out of lock down, I'll see about building the blinkin' thing. 

It's Sun 19 Mar 20, btw.  I've found left over Chimera bits from when I've used the hull on other conversions.  And done a little work there, so you'll see that in a short while.