Legion Fellblade Super Heavy Tank

I've uploaded a few pics of the newest (and biggest) addition to our Horus Heresy campaign - a Legion Fellblade super heavy tank. I've had my eye on this behemoth for the past year and I'm incredibly excited to have it assembled and ready for painting. As with any large resin model from Forgeworld, it was a complicated and frustrating build that took 10+ hours to complete. Each piece of resin must be cut (sometimes sawed) away from the sprue, excess resin scrapped away, washed with soap and water, heated and re-molded, cracks and holes filled in with green stuff, and then assembled.

This Fellblade should give my brother and I a centerpiece for our biggest battles and a powerful Lord of War choice that entire missions and scenarios can be crafted around. A model like this really elevates the games it is a part of beyond some periphery skirmish - this is now the epicenter of the battle or campaign. And by rule it has to be more than a skirmish, as the LoW choice can only make up 25% of your force's total points. So except for special missions Phil and I craft around this Fellblade that are more in the realm of narrative play, this tank will only be allowed in games of 2,400 pts. and more.

I really felt that this model "fit" with my Death Guard army I'm building. Slow and intractable, heavy firepower, intimidating - it makes sense that my legion would make use of a tank like this as it fits the tactics and personality of the army perfectly. Other Super Heavies may have more advanced weaponry and are perhaps better overall, but they don't fit a Death Guard army like the Fellblade with its old school tank look, its massive turret cannon and brutal demolisher for close encounters.

At the end of the pictures you'll find a size comparison between the Fellblade, a rhino and a space marine. This sucker is big!