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Celestial Lions Space Marine Terminator Squad

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Celestial Lions Space Marine Terminator Squad

I didn’t do a lot of painting in December, but I did pick away at this squad of Celestial Lion Terminators that I managed to finish off on Boxing Day. Well, I say “finish”, but I’m waiting on some decals that I still need to add to those blue kneepads.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Terminator Squad

These models are all “rescue marines”, in that they were aquired secondhand and then repainted (and to some extent, reassembled). The most significant of those being the addition of a Grey Knight’s unhelmeted head, arm and weapon (as well as the Aquila standard) to designate the Sergeant – as well as a Deathwatch shoulder pad.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Terminator Squad

I’ve also added little nods on each of these models to their fellow Sons of Dorn. I plan to eventually be able to combine my small Fist/successor forces into a larger crusade one for larger games.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Terminator Squad

As I finished these models at the end of December, they just edged into the opening days of Dave Stone’s “Paint what you got” challenge” which runs until the end of February, and is all about… well… painting the models that you have!

Celestial Lions Space Marine Terminator Squad, Castaferrum Dreadnought

Here they are alongside the Dreadnought that I finished relatively recently (which helped motivate me to work on these guys again, as they were started over a year ago and pretty much sat in a box for most of that time. I hope to get some more of my long-neglected, half-painted Marines completed over the next period of time. Of course, I’ve started 2021 by mostly painting some entirely different things…

Dreadtober 2020: Celestial Lions Dreadnought

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Dreadtober is an annual painting challenge that runs every October. Much like Zomtober, I’d been looking forward to it and using it for motivation to get some stuff done.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Castaferrum Dreadnought

Also much like Zomtober, (and Orktober!) I forgot about it this year because of the rolling shitshow dumpster fire that 2020 has been until the last minute, so I didn’t sign up over on their main page. In fact, I had only a few days to try to complete something – so I chose one of the Dreadnoughts I had planned to paint for this challenge in 2019. And it was still in the exact same condition as the photo, too!

Yeah. Basically that’s it. Sprayed gold, nothing on the base, a touch of steel and blue on the arms. So it was time to kick things into gear.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Castaferrum Dreadnought

Luckily these old-school Casteferrum Space Marine Dreadnoughts are pretty simple to paint, really – and these AOBR models are even simpler, as they omit and condense some of the extra details found on the various multipart kits. I did need ot finally pull my finger out and make some Celestial Lions decals along with some others I’ve been needing for other projects, which took a good part of an evening.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Castaferrum Dreadnought

Generally speaking, I kept the paint pretty simple. As well as the orangey-gold I use for the Lions and the steel, there are some coppers and a bit of discolouration on some of the elements. A Black Templars decal respects the previous custodians of the Ancient’s suit.

Celestial Lions Space Marine Castaferrum Dreadnought

The model was still a little plain, so I also added some heat discolouration to the Assault Cannon barrels. That arm of course is from the Ancient Dreadnought kit. Since I try to avoid gluing Dreadnought arms on if poissible and this one isn’t a great fit, there’s a blob of blu-tac in there as well!

Celestial Lions Space Marine Castaferrum Dreadnought

Since the Celestial Lions Chapter has a pseudo-African heritage, I also did some freehand on the right greave, and gave the Ancient an African name (from someone I know IRL). Also a nice shot alongside a Primaris Lieutenant and a flame trooper.

And that’s it!