BattleScribe Roster

BattleScribe updated their data for the new 2015 Space Marine codex.  Here's my current roster of models that I currently have completed or near completed for my new army

BATTLESCRIBE SOM ROSTER

Terminators

Attack of the one armed terminators

Space Marine video game

With the Steam summer sale going on I picked up a copy of the Space Marine video game for PC and have been enjoying it quite a lot!  I was surprised and gratified that the SOM were included in multiplayer.

I'm not particularly good at shooters, but playing on PC with a mouse makes targeting a lot easier.  As a result, I'm really looking forward to Eternal Crusade.

Power fist and sword

Experimenting with airbrushed colors for captain and sergeant

Where is Taelus?

Very little information is provided as to where the Taelus is located, home system for the Sons of Medusa.  Medusa itself is located to the galactic North close to the Eye of Terror in the Segmentum Obscurus.  Moirae was located in the Northwest of the Segmentum Solar.  The SOM are rumored to retain recruiting rights to the Laanath Rifts as a result of the Bellrath Crusade.  The Angevin Crusade occurred to the North in the Calixis Sector.  And the Badab War was located to the East in the Ultima Segmentum.  So there does not appear to be much rhyme or reason to the locations associated with the SOM.

Nevertheless the best guess as to the location of Taelus based on rumors seems to be a short distance from the former forge world Moirae.  A location in the Segmentum Solar might make sense if one believes that the Sons of Medusa still believe that hidden messages from the Omnissiah can be discerned from the beacon of the Astronomican.

Tacticals

So the backbone of any army is the troops.  So I started off first by building and painting a tactical squad of marines.

Some miscellaneous SOM pictures from the web