As you might have gathered already from other posts on the site, i have started a new Space Marine Army under the ‘Sons of Orar’ Chapter. The main motivation for starting the force is to co-inside with ‘a tale of 6 gamers’ that im running. ever since i heard about the concept and read about it in White Dwarf i have been hooked on the idea, so much so i though i would give it a damn good go and run one with some guys from our gaming group.

Month 1’s challenge is easy, build and paint 4-500points worth of basic FoC, specifically enough to play a small game (2 Troops and a lower level HQ). As Space Marines this isn’t all that easy actually as they don’t really fair too well at the very low points brackets and have very limited choices for troops. Never the less i went for:

1 Captain with Relic Blade

10 Tactical Marines with Fist, Melta & Missile Launcher

1 Rhino

5 Combat Scouts with Power Weapon.

(You should be able to see from the above pic the models in their current state - these need to be finished by 1st July to get full points!)

The reason for choosing Sons of Orar is largely fickle - i love the colour scheme and really wanted to paint something red/white - this made alot of sense to me.

I have finished (nearly) the test model (see pic below). The basing scheme is again something i really wanted to do from a modeling point of view and fits the fluff in the form of Orar’s Sepulchre. The Army are going to be ‘based’ at the Tomb of their spiritual Primarch and so the Polished tiles will fit in with this theme.

I will provide a step by step guide to the basing as well as the colour scheme as part fo the Month 1 rap-up, so stay tuned for that (if you are curious).