Objectives & The Inquisition
Now that you've seen the themed objective markers I thought I'd show you my Neutral objectives that are designed to look like something most races would fight over.



As you can see they're a lot of cool stuff, I'm tempted to create a whole set for the crystal objective and make some crystals on 25mm bases.

But my favourite has to be the Inquisitor.



I have a grot army with imperial wargear, sorcerers who reanimate their enemy’s corpses to serve them and a renegade machine cult. And yet I’ve never faced an Inquisitor on the board.

So I decided to create an Inquisitor objective marker for Capture and control missions for opponents with Imperial armies to use. He is also an excellent opposing objective for the Zanatorian Machine Lord objective.

Codex Cover

The army is fully complete at 1750pts and with 2 weeks to go before the Open War tournament aka judgement day, I'm getting in as much practice as possible for it. I've also had someone create a codex cover for them as well. Check it out...



Created by Tim Divar, some of you may have seen his works in the Firebase Warseer mag.

The next and final post will be a report on how the army preformed at Open War on the 31st october. Hope it's good news.

hey he put a tail on the steel scorpion then! on the codex cover.

good luck adam!

BONUS STUFF: SAVING RATLING PRIVATE BAGGINS

Most of you would have seen the Zanatorian Deathstalkers: http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs27/i/2009/ ... oiteus.jpg

These guys have earned the nickname robowraith and since I had 9 of them I couldn't help but make this comedy objective marker entitled 'Saving Ratling Private Baggins'



I tried to make a sniper rifle to go on the base but all of them were too big in comparson to mr frodo. Instead I stuck a guard backpack, grenade and army knife on the base, as well as give mr baggins a band & berret which is resting on the tree stumb.

Anyway it's good for a laugh. All that leaves now is a few touch ups and putting the fluff on paper.

It's all looking really brilliant. Well done.

The Machine Cult's Background

Of course this army has a large background and since I was unable to create a comic based around it, I decided to have some artwork made that would have a small description of the Zanatorians above it; similar to a page from a codex.



The Zanatorian Machine Cult

Devout followers of the Machine God and once loyal supporters to the Imperium of Man - have taken on a role unfitting of any loyal servant. Freed from the shackles forced upon them by the Treaty of Mars, the Zanatorians have looked beyond what the Imperium dictates to pioneer new and forbidden technologies; one of which is their armies of sentient machines that are all connected by a mind impulse unit to a Machine Lord; the ruling caste of the Zanatorian Machine Cult.

It is because of this that the Zanatorians are regarded as heretics and were nearly hunted to annihilation by the Inquisition; the Zanatorians have boldly taken on the task of protecting an ungrateful galactic empire. With such a daunting task ahead of them they choose to specialize in hit and run tactics to avoid conflicting with Imperial forces, often emerging from the shadows to defend a besieged world before vanishing without a trace.

The Zanatorian Machine Cult is viewed in many ways by different people some call them heretics who are out to disrupt the stability of the Imperium, whilst others believe they are guardians of humanity.

With such a daunting task ahead of them, the methodically inhuman nature of the Machine Cult may be exactly what the realm of Man needs to help defend itself against those who would wish to destroy it.

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The artwork does seem to have trouble portraying what I wanted as it seems focused on the marines rather than the avatar and it doesn't really look like their fighting, but I only gave the artist one week so I don't reallly mind it does the job.

Anyway Judgement day tommorrow; will they achieve the goal of winning best army will have to wait and see?

Well it was judgement day today and I was really hoping that this army would win best army, I could come last in the tournament. All that mattered was the ‘Best Army Award’

Sadly I didn’t win best army, I was so disappointed… Then it was announced that there was an award for best converted army called ‘The Big Mek Award’ AND I WON IT!



AND THAT’S NOT ALL OF IT.

After the judging at lunch time I found a card on my table underneath on of the miniatures, GW is interested in displaying the Zanatorian Machine Cult in the Miniatures Hall at Warhammer World.

Which is fantastic, so somewhere in the future they will be on display at Warhammer World!

I’m so glad that this army has worked at so well, thanks for all your feedback guys I’ll let you know what army project I’m working on next soon. But the Zanatorian project is completed now and won’t see any more work done to it until the Necron codex is out.

-- Project Complete --

wow that's some cool artwork, Adam. and well done in open war!
so whats the next project?