Heresy Era Thousand Sons – Army on parade before shipping off to a new battlezone…

A bittersweet time has arrived, and the most recent version of the Thousand Sons are going up on the auction block. That means it's time for a set of send-off pictures, and I so liked how the shot of the Imperial Fists turned out at the local GW shop, I took the Sons down for a photo shoot!


I will say that these have been my favorite incarnation of the Thousand Sons of the three I've done, definitely felt they were a nice cohesive force and the mix of bits and kits gelled nicely. Weighing in at about 3000 points (depending on which characters and wargear are chosen, it was designed as a "Pride of the Legion" force, so the veterans and terminators also counted as Troops choices and they performed well on objective missions (since all of the infantry were scoring).


Fun mix of characters, with several sorcerers, and several champions and praetors in various marks of armour. Quite liked bastardizing a couple Deathwatch models for parts too, the Blood Ravens librarian was rather cheeky!


The Terminators were a mix of Wargame Exclusive kits and the plastic Cataphractii, and bear a striking resemblance to the upcoming 'real' FW variants. Will likely do another set of this style of kitbash for the upcoming version of the force, as I have a mess of bits left over to do so! The Contemptors are the one part of the army that I'm already feeling a twinge of sellers remorse over, so there will definitely be a couple more in the new force too, and I especially am looking forward to the new Osiron variant!


The veteran squad always performed admirably, and as already shown I'm doing a pair of vets in the new version, though I am switching up to dual meltas as the missile launcher never quite performed well on the tabletop for me.


Similarly, the assault squad always did well, and I'm planning a 20-strong unit coming up. Though I loved the winged sergeant, his pose never quite clicked with me, so the new variant should hopefully be a bit more dynamic. Seriously considering doing the whole squad with wings next time...



The lone 10-man tac squad ended up being a bit of a gap-filler in this force, next time around Sergeant Hesyre is getting the full 20 brothers and be upgrading from a Rhino to a Storm Eagle as well!


The pair of armoured Proteus Land Raiders always caused consternation among my opponents and always performed well. Their lack of an assault ramp is thought of as a detriment by many, but it's Rule of Cool for me all the way - the Proteus just looks cooler than the Phobos pattern to me. At the moment I'm thinking a lighter/faster force next time so the next force doesn't have any big tanks, but my love of the Proteus means it's only a matter of time before I add one to the army...


The other bit of incipient sellers remorse is the Damocles command Rhino, really enjoyed how the kitbash worked and will likely beg one of my UK buddies to pick up another set of the command tanks from WHW at some point. All in all a very pleasurable project to work on, and I'm all the more excited to get stuck in on the new version using all the awesome new bits and kits that have come out in recent months, not to mention all the cool new stuff previewed at the recent Heresy Weekender!

At the moment the army is up on eBay, and includes Battlefoam trays for the lot (and at the buy it now price I'm including the PackAIR they fit into as well). Unfortunately due to the way shipping and whatnot works these days I'm only currently selling the army on there to stateside buyers. It would likely cost $250 or more to ship overseas which is a shame - it didn't used to be so extortionate. That said, if you are interested and you're overseas drop me an email and we can discuss the options.