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Honoured Imperium Statue and Ruins

These have been in storage for a while now, it was back in 2011 that I gave the models a basecoat of Humbrol Sea Grey spray paint. I had earlier, drybrushed the Broken Aquila, and then used the same technique on the Space Marine Statue and ruins.

These are the ruins.

As I mentioned in my previous post on the Broken Aquila, I was originally going to keep the whole model grey, but I am now thinking I might add more scenic and foliage and rather than have it as a recentl ruin, have it as one that was left some time ago and nature has over time grown around it. The Imperium has been around for ages and so it still fits the fluff. The statue certainly looks like it is aged rather than damaged as part of a recent battle.

Honoured Imperium Broken Aquila

These have been in storage for a while now, it was back in 2011 that I gave the models a basecoat of Humbrol Sea Grey spray paint.

The broken Aquila was a very flat grey.

I then used a variety of greys and drybushed them on.

I was originally going to keep the whole model grey, but I am now thinking I might add more scenic and foliage and rather than have it as a recently broken Aquila, have it as one that was broken some time ago and nature has over time grown around it. The Imperium has been around for ages and so it still fits the fluff. It was seeing a ruined Imperial City in the jungle in a copy of White Dwarf a few years back that inspired me to think about going down this route.

This scenery that was also on display at GamesDay 2009 always impressed me.

Taking the Imperial Ruins, painting them stone in colour and adding overgrown jungle foliage and roots was always in my opinion an inspired move.

I am going to do something similar with my broken Aquila.

Honoured Imperium Basecoat

I gave the models a base coat of Humbrol Sea Grey spray paint.

The next stage will be drybrushing the models.

See the full workbench feature on these models.

Undercoating the Honoured Imperium

The next stage for the Honoured Imperium was a white undercoat.

Space Marine Statue – Honoured Imperium

This Honoured Imperium box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building. The statue (and variations) has appeared a few times before it was officially released.

The statue was a little more complex to put together. I did think it would have been nice to have some instructions. It was only after I completed the model that I realised that the instructions were on the side of the box.

See the workbench feature on the Honoured Imperium.

Ruined Building – Honoured Imperium

The ruined building that is included in the Honoured Imperium (as an afterthought to fill the sprue?) comes in two parts.

These fit together very easily.

Though quite nice, there need to be more ruins to make it more “realistic” when setting it on a battlefield. I might use it as the basis for a diorama.

Fallen Eagle

Within the Honoured Imperium scenery set is a fallen eagle.

It comprises just two pieces.

They fit together just fine.

It’s a lot bigger than you think it will be. These Orks seem quite small next to it.

One key question before using this in games you do need to ask though, as big as it is, is what did it fall off?

Honoured Imperium

This box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building.

The broken Aquila was seen before at GamesDay 2007.

Whilst the statue (and variations) has appeared a few times as well…

…including this broken version at GamesDay 2007.

This box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building.The set consists of two sprues.

See the workbench feature on the Honoured Imperium.

Honoured Imperium

Games Workshop have released details and made available for pre-order their plastic Honoured Imperium kit.

honimperium

This box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building.

I mentioned the broken Aquila (or fallen eagle) a few days ago and had photographed a prototype back at GamesDay 2007.

I do hope what we are seeing on the website reflect what the actual models are like, he says reflecting on the Blastscape pictures!!!