#strike hawks

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Apothecary of the Strike Hawks, Emil Kafka. His bedside manner is considered lacking, even by the standards of other apothecaries, to the point where he can, at times, appear negligent of his duties. The only time he appears enthusiastic, or portrays anything akin to joy, is when torturing his victims. As an apothecary, he poses intimate knowledge of both standard human and astartes biology, and in the the Strike Hawks relentless crusade to liberate STCs from those unworthy - the illegitimate heirs of the Imperium, as they see them - he is unhesitant to use that knowledge to inflict as much pain, to extract as much information, as he possibly can.

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in a rare burst of motivation, i decided to get a start on my apothecary, tho i'll be fucked if the lighting was going to be cooperative between the white pauldrons and everything else being dark colours.

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there’s the honoured of the chapter set built. those eradicators were a bitch to put together, to the point where i ended up clipping off the pin points and just gluing them. i gotta wonder if anyone at gw actually tries to put together their Push To Fit stuff. anyway, here’s the entirety of the built Strike Hawks chapter, most of which just isnt painted, cos i can be an unmotivated fuck some days. it’s probably to force ive got thats closest to actually being rules legal. maybe my mechanicus fellas are a close second

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So, after stripping them twice, ive finally painted the warhammer minis i ever got to a standard im happy with. i got these bad boys in the First Strike starter set back in feb of 2020. well. thats when i ordered them at least. they actually showed up oct, u kno, cos of the whole pandemic thing that happened. truthfully Warhammer 40k Build+Paint Space Marine Heavy Assault set arrived first (i ordered it from a different vendor) arrived first, but thats old as balls. like, the terminators are still on 25mm bases and the dreadnought had a multimelta, and i ordered it after First Strike, so pbtpbtpbt! Any lore underthe cut as usual

In their never ending quest to get STC fragments and archeotech into the hands of those who rightfully deserve it, the Expeditionary Fleets of the Strike Hawks will sometimes need to... reappropriate it from their allies, most commonly the Adeptus Mechanicus. To this end, they will usually employ a ground team of no more than 3 marines, such as Nagetier Squad. In most cases, the Strike Hawks will be out of system before their quarry is even aware that they have been robbed. In other cases... several Expeditionary Forces have been declared heretic and excommunicatum by the ecclesiarchy, heretek by several forgeworlds, and even had bounties placed upon them by especially angry planetary governors and rogue traders. through a miracle of the Emperor, their native chapter has avoided the worst of the consequences, simply finding that they are not welcomes on some planets. The 9th Expeditionary Force avoids this issue altogether by crossing into the Imperium Nihilus, where the chaotic nature of the area allows for a reduced level of scrutiny.

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I decided to put all my minis on the floor just to look at them all and decided ya’ll have to look at all my funny little toy soldiers too. i have had to move part of the lounge to make room. also, if u look at the ar left of the first phot, u can see farsight falling over because that boy just did NOT want to stand up with teh rest of the class

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do i have a problem of collecting and not painting my minis? maybe. anyway here's my whole 40k collection that i am deffo gonna fet around to painting obe day yep gonna paint AND play the tabletop with them xD 😢

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i spent most of the day it it but my assault intercessors of the 13th Exploratory Company are complete

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i present Sub-Captain Mikhail Zorin of the 13th Epxeditionary Company of the Strike Hawks, second in command to Captain Wellington of the same unit. Since Wellington prefers to lead from the to lead from the front, Zorin is often left in charge of the reserve force. many space marines would grow resentful of their commander in this position, but Wellington and Zorin have been friends since they were mere scouts over two centuries ago, and Zorin understands that Wellington trusts no one mroe than himself to watch is back.

i also finished up the second bike of my outrider squad but it aint anything to special so yall gotta wait until the whole squad is painted up to see them