At the moment, Legions Imperialis and BattleTech (plus the occasional game of Space Hulk or Gaslands) are absorbing all my hobby time and interest. At the moment, 40K (with its neverending treadmill of new editions and new codexes, and constant churn of “meta”) holds very little appeal for me and most of my gaming friends. In fact, over the summer I actually put both my 40K armies (apart from my Reaver) into cold storage as they were just taking up space.
But when GW announced a new model for Vulkan He’stan, Forgefather of the Salamanders, I decided to pre-order it, firstly because I have never been very happy with the version I painted more than a decade ago, but also to give myself a palate cleanser after more than 18 months of only painting 8mm miniatures.
As he is a figurehead character for the Salamanders army, I decided to put a bit more than the usual amount of effort into him, and I am quite pleased with how he’s turned out. Definitely an improvment on what I was able to achieve back in 2014!
More pictures below the fold.
