Ten Solar Auxilia Veletaris Storm Section Alternative Colour Schemes and Painting Recipes

During the Horus Heresy, there’s Space Marines. Everywhere. Half of them are really not happy and trying to kill the other half, who are equally unhappy and equally trying to kill the other half. In between, there’s the Mechanicum, the Mechanicus, the Adeptus Custodes, a heap of all manner of others, and the Solar Auxilia. Now, you’re a Solar Auxilia warrior in the 31st Millennium. You’re given heavier armour than your compatriots and an option between a gun which can effectively melt anything up to and including a Space Marine at a distance, or an axe. So what do you choose? Yep. Axe! So that’s how I built the ones Games Workshop sent my way. And painted them all sorts of different colours. So here you are! Ten Solar Auxilia Veletaris Storm Section soldiers, all in different colour schemes and all with Storm Axes because it’s Warhammer; if you can hit it in the face with a big thing, hit it in the face with a big thing.

20 Horus Heresy Solar Auxilia Trooper Colour Schemes and Painting Recipes All In One Place

Horus Heresy? Oh you mean the game and book series focusing upon Space Marines kicking seven shades of Athonian Camo out of each other? Yes. But there’s more to it than that. Other factions of humans and not quite humans were rolling around in the 31st millennium. Not least of which, by a long way, are the Solar Auxilia. And they now have new plastic models in the Horus Heresy tabletop game. Not only that, Games Workshop sent one of the Solar Auxilia Battle Group boxes my way (you can already see where this is going, right?). So what did I do? Yep. Twenty Solar Auxilia Troopers in twenty different colour scheme with their recipes and methods attached into easy to refer to cards for your viewing pleasure.

Baneblade Variants and You; How do they stack up?

Look at all these Xenos and their pitiful Super Heavy Detachments. Aeldari Wraithknights? They’re mighty impressive and all that but heavy? Nothing with those flowing curves could be heavy. Probably forged from some lightweight, efficient, responsibly sourced materials too. Heretical, if you ask me. Now the Orks, they’ve got something approaching the right idea with Stompas but honestly, not enough guns. When it comes to Super Heavy vehicles, the right money looks no further than the Baneblade family of Astra Militarum tanks. With Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse on its way alongside a fresh rebox of the Baneblade and its Baney or Bladey brothers, there’s never been a better time to stuff a Quake Cannon shell deep into the enemy front lines.

But which is right for your needs? The Shadowsword’s titan-slagging volcano cannon? A rain of bolts from a Stormlord’s Vulkan Mega-Bolter? Perhaps you’re a stickler for the ol’ reliable Baneblade Cannon? Let’s look at what each of the eight Baneblade variants does in Warhammer 40,000, shall we?