As I slowly work through my Age of Darkness box set, I have to determine what to paint for my White Scars and what to paint for my Sons of Hours. So far, I have done the Contemptor and a Tactical Squad for my White Scars as they needed some basic troops and did not yet have any dreadnoughts. For the Cataphractii, being heavy and slow, I decided they fit better with my Sons of Horus. I decided to paint up all ten in one batch as a big foot slogging squad for our Traitor Bash game. I thought it would give me a very tough and formidable core to my army that could take and hold ground and go toe to toe with almost any unit in melee. (It turns out it did not quite work out that way...)
I gave them the old Forge World resin shoulder pads, and I used one set of Forge World power axes for five of them. The other five got a a thunder hammer, a chain fist and a few power fists. I equipped them with just combi-bolters for guns since I was trying to keep the squad cost from ballooning too much and I was assuming they would do most of their damage in melee. I also added a vexilla from the tactical squad sprue. The sergeant got a bare head and a mounted skull trophy to mark him out and help intimidate his foes. I also gave him the pointing hand to indicate that he is directing the unit. He also got golden trim on his thighs where the rest of the unit had green. I painted them pretty much the same as my first Cataphractii squad, except these have black outer shoulder pads to accentuate the brass iconography.
I really like this paint scheme with the super bright edge highlighting but after doing ten Cataphractii terminators. I will need to take a break from it. I think that is why I like having a few armies in the works at a given time. By the time I spend weeks painting the same thing, the thought of another squad of the same scheme is daunting and I am ready for a change.
