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Really got into kitbashing here.

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One thing I love about the Salamanders is not that they commit tech-heresy, but how they choose to commit tech-heresy. If your equipment breaks; know how to fix it (Wild concept I know, but in 40k that kind knowledge is usually illegal). That kind of mechanical know how however, encourages each battle-brother to modify, personalize, and maintain their own equipment leading to all sorts of different looking marines.

Looking back over my models is a treat to see how I tried to make each marine look unique.

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This little guy is one of the prides and joys of my collection. This is my interpretation of Vulkan He'Stan. In 9th edition he had one of the best aura abilities for Salamanders for really bringing the HEAT of your army's melta weapons to new degrees. Loved pairing him with Eradicators for full re-rolls.

I made him out of half a dozen kits from 40k and Age of Sigmar, as well as special resin bits I ordered for his helmet, fiery halo, and spear (The halo is also made from a clipped ring from a dog tag). The scale ridges on the cap took hours of careful placement and I had to get really creative to fashion the gauntlet flame thrower. I'm especially happy with how the size of his spear really reflects how it was made by a giant, who probably meant to either use it himself or gift it to one of his bothers before war broke out.

Now that 10th edition has just started and chapter specific rules have been limited to epic-heroes, I feel like he's my best option for really playing Salamanders instead of just playing green colored marines.

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More kitbashing for the grim darkness of the 41st millennia, the biggest Salamander of them all, and some fiery boys for him to lead.

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Why walk when you can ride in some of the best troop transports the sons of Vulkan can provide?

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When you prime you toys with spray paint, it kind of stinks when what few free days you have, also happen to be very humid, raining, snowy, or windy. When my older sib offered to let me use their art studio, I dubbed the day Prime Time!

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This was another long time passion project of mine, and my first attempt at a playable diorama miniature. Games Workshop made one heck of a pose-able cyborg with their new Contemptor Dreadnought model and after I built the one that came with their Age of Darkness box, I was inspired to buy a second.

In the grim dark future of the 41st millennia, there is no peace, there is only war. Billions of lives are fed into a war machine by an empire that is prepared to spend a billion more. If only to maintain what failing grasp it has on its remaining territory. And in this truly awful state of affairs, there remains at least one light of hope and compassion. The Sons of Vulkan. The Salamanders.

Where other Astartes view the average citizen as annoyances they are ordered to fight around or pathetic mortals that exist only by the good graces of their emperor, the Salamanders are humble heroes. They hold human life sacred above all other things and their organization exists to protect humanity from the horrors of the universe.

This warrior, hundreds if not thousands of years old, trapped in the life support system a metal giant worth more resources than some planets, takes to his knee in the sea of battle to buy time for a field medic to save the life of another soldier. To him neither of their lives are expendable and as soon as the medic finishes her work, what ever forces dared threaten the homes of these two small souls, will know the fires of his wrath.

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Sometimes you like all the options a miniature kit can build you, but it only gives you enough of some parts to build one or two variations. With these big boys in walking military grade hospital beds only came with two elbow joints, but multiple gun/arm options.

When in doubt get creative and play with magnets!

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Thought it would be cool to go through how my Space Marine collection started and how it's grown over the years.

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So there is something I noticed, after first seeing season two’s theme song. There is an effect that keeps making return appearances throughout the series. This effect takes the form a big pulsating red and black circle/orb and it has shown up in every opening theme since the first. I will admit I’m still not entirely sure if my example from season two’s theme is the same circle/orb. However, I’m am certain it’s not meant to represent either the sun or the moon, but something more sinister. So for now I count it.

In its first appearance it appears in the midst of Team RWBY as if somehow related to them on a personal level. But rather than remaining aloft, it crashes down showing its power and challenging our heroes who promptly attack. This implies to me that the red and black circle/orb represents a person who will act as the catalyst for conflict in the show.

Assuming my second example represents the same force and/or person we can see how this time it is far above our protagonists and obliterates everything around it. This seems to me to mean that this force is not only a source of conflict, but the greatest force of opposition Team RWBY will face.

Next it shows up again right after the photo of Team STRQ (seemingly in the photo itself), teams RWBY and JNPR tumble out from the circle/orb, and proceed to fall apart. From this it would appear that this force may actually succeed in isolating and dividing Team RWBY. And considering everything the four have been through, anything that can do that isn’t to be trifled with.

Finally bringing it all together. There is one instance in the series proper, when the effect is seen again. As the portal Raven uses to exit the train after saving Yang. I believe White-Fang-Adam is correct and Cinder Fall will not be the show’s final challenge for Team RWBY to combat, as she is never associated with this effect and makes her own separated appearances in season two and three’s opening themes. I believe that it will be Yang’s mother, Raven, who will represent a personal attachment to members of Team RWBY powerful enough to shake the foundation of our protagonists and threaten to divide them forever.

Or I could be dead wrong and still missing some crucial information that shall reveal more later. Who knows? Part of the reason I love RWBY.