Fire Hawks. OWAC May

The Annals of the 9th Squad mark them as the last to leave the Fire Hawks first homeworld of Cousteau XI and thus lead the honour guard that is stationed on the planets memorial shrine.

March to the Stars. An account of the Fire Hawks.

Veteran Tactical squad

Marines with terminator Honours

Tactical Squad and Rhino Transport

The full breakdown of May on the OWAC blog is here

Old World Army Challenge

Copper Oracle publicity!

Very pleased to have the Copper Oracle showcased on the Spikey Bits Blog

www.spikeybitsblog.com

Adeptus Mechanicus: The Copper Oracle

Primary scan + target designated Copper Oracle has been acquired

Structural parameters

= 98.2% compliance with 4th Revision Baroque Indulgence Artistic Principles

The Copper Oracle was constructed by Adept Itzen-Da a pupil of Adept Ulterimua and was a prototype Warp reader. Embedded within the machine is an artificially grown and enhanced brain partly cultured from illicitly gathered Navigator House stock. 

The Oracle was an early step into the exploration of the Akasha Postulation and Noospheric field work. Unfortunately during the initial testing the feedback from the warp connection resulted in temporal instability and the Oracle platform was pulled into the warp. The Copper Oracle is still bound to the Red Planet, by accident or design is unknown, and will periodically reappear in different locations. Sometimes for mere hours and other times for days. Still operational after all this time, the Copper Oracle  dispenses its visions into the desert

More recently sightings have increased and the Copper Oracle has been gathering resources, utilizing ancient pathways and access codes to old to be countered. Only time will reveal its purpose and if speaks with the will of the Omnissiah or Warp inspired madness. 

   

Additional:

Access granted to apocryphal file 1/22.34

Adept Itzen-Da disappeared after the first testing of the Copper Oracle and Official records log that he offered himself for Unwinding and Reclamation as a result of the debacle. Other sources indicate he entered the Copper Oracle during its initialization and remains as part of it still. 

querry search Itzen-Da, Adept hidden rank...

Reclaimation Authorized 30.011.299

Subfiles  

Parts manifest
[Empty]
Transport and storage
[Empty]
Redistribution
                     [Empty]

Skitarii Archivist Begg 7-B

Begg 7-B stumbled forward as he stepped off the lowered transport door, the clank of his feet sounding out against the rhythm around him. Automatic systems took over and prevented him from falling but not before he had upset the harmony of the disembarkation and drawing the attention of Alpha Rahon Ta-Ro. The Alpha prioritised his Noospheric link and sent over an urgent query, demerit markers highlighting the disruption and 0.0045 efficiency drop.
Begg struggled to respond, his system starting to overload as external feeds disconnected and his own software started to purge under an external override

+System reroute and PURGE+
+incoming Imperative OVERRIDE+
+Awaiting capacity confirmation and KEY+

The Alpha stepped over to where Begg had stopped and queried again, simultaneously redirecting the halted flow of Skitarii around them both and and alerting the dock rotation Adept. Begg barely noticed through the static haze of isolation and reboot protocols.
Emotional buffers gave way and triggered Pict feeds from the recent Acquisitional Campaign, jarred and overlaid with GPS parameters and Martian Geo date.
The outline of a Copper blue face emerged from the noise.

+PURGE+
+System KEY inload. Awaiting Imperative…
+Cant Variation upgrade. IN HIS NAME WE SPEAK+
+Unit requisition. PRIORITY 1.+

The reorder cleared the static and even the Alpha felt its passing, ancient pre-Heresy imperatives and security clearance leaving a digital wake. Alpha and Adept stood down and resumed their place in the Order of the Day and Begg, filled with the voice of Onmissiah, walked into the desert.

Requisitioned by The Copper Oracle, Begg now serves as Archivist, gathering up the Hard Copy Data streams.

The figure was painted in line with the Copper Oracle. I wanted to work with a muted rusted palette and stretch myself with a more organic and grunted technique than I usually paint with. Inspired by the work of John Blanche.

Copper Oracle dreg WIP

While the Copper Oracle settles under its first coat of paint I have started on a couple of minor characters to keep it company. The first is an old Skitarii Begg 7-B. Returning from a campaign, his cogitator and neural suppressors damaged he struggled to cope with increasing waves of emotion and fled into the desert. Expecting to die he was overtaken by a vision of the Copper Oracle and sought it out. Begg now tends the Oracle and gathers up the data  sheets that fall from its mouth and scours the nearby wastes for more

Adeptus Mechanicus: Copper Oracle 4

The head piece has now been filled up. 

First with the main pieces and then smaller figures, ranging from an Epic Scale Ogryn and a Sentinl to a 6mm WW2 tank and Black Tree Cyberman (its a cyborg so totally counts as Mechanicum!) the spaces in-between where then filled with wooden sticks to form antenna and helping to build a loose curved outline to the build. The signature Admech pipework was then added in layers using pipes from Zing Industries excellent range of bitz and Guitar strings. The ends of the pipes were capped of with plugs from the Zing range and added to the while effect.

The 'easy' part of putting it together is about done now so i will be undercoating and getting the first couple of layers down and will hopefully post up tomorrow

Zing Industries wargaming bitz

Adeptus Mechanicus: Copper Oracle 3

Time to fill the head!
The mounted Knight of the Blazing Sun is the centrepiece and larger pieces pinned around it. Once all of the larger pieces are attached the aim is to build up around them and fill the gaps with either antenna, various Bitz and then cabling.

Granted it's looking a little crude but most of the lower portions will be hidden and all repainted once in place

Adeptus Mechanicus: Copper Oracle 2

Work continues on the Copper Oracle, with some extra basing and some more detail on the head piece

The large socket at the back of the head was constructed using a bottle lid, some straws, cocktail sticks and doweling.

While the PVA/Sand was drying i started work on some of the detail pieces, mainly raiding my bits box  to gather or build a range of techno archaic figures. My favourites are the light bulb on the napoleonic gun carriage and the Grandmaster of the knights of the Blazing Sun with a cannon head and radar dish shield.