Incaladion Skitarii Vanguard Unit

Incaladion Vanguard

When the Skitarii Ranger/Vanguard models were released I loved the Rangers with their hoods and couldn't get excited by the Vanguard.  Sure, their radiation weapons made for an even grimmer fate than the Rangers, but I couldn't bring myself to make any of the models.

Eventually I decided to put the Vanguard bits to work so I used third party greatcoat bodies (thinly lead lined to extend the operational effectiveness of the troops I reasoned) to make the alpha and radium carbine models. but all of my special weapons had been committed to the Rangers so the unit sat waiting to be completed.

  

Eventually, when the Nighthaunt models were released I managed to come up with a conversion idea that would let me buy some while also completing the Vanguard unit.  Rad troops should be among the worst of the stock Mechanicus units a foe would face so the idea of horse skulled, tumor laden near corpses accompanying the Vanguard seemed about right.  If I were a better modeler then one or more with the robes burned off could make for a truly repugnant conversion.

Having also read up a bit more on the Incaladion forgeworld, the idea of a Magos with even more ferociously recycled units than the norm kind of fits.  Since I intend to paint my Mechanicus in the Mars color scheme, Magos Thule Garman and his forges on Incaladion will be loyalists working to both quell remaining rebellious forges and defend the world from all of the outside attention it receives.