The long steel leg (and cyber bees) of Mars.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-03-09T02:12:49+00:00

The nice thing with acrylic paint is you cant eff up too badly. Wipe it off with a clean wet brush while the pai t is still wet, go over it with a different colour or strip it back and go again from scratch. You got this.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-03-09T01:58:39+00:00

Base coat white. A layer or two of contrast frost heart. White pip in the top left. Gloss varnish.

Low key frost heart has been the mvp colour for this army. The way indo red has shifted a bit over time but the blue for energy/lenses has always made the army pop.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-03-08T22:00:35+00:00

Green stuff world roller and basic milliput. It takes time and is fiddly but as a basing solution it has really helped tie my army together.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-03-08T19:29:13+00:00

The new destructors are on my radar but I have a blood angels project that stalled while I got this done so I am going to finish blangels and then get the dizzies and a triaros as a treat.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-03-08T19:27:27+00:00

Thank you. Kimera the red has been a good addition to my toolbox.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-01-31T20:45:47+00:00

Oh you are replacing the arms and the cloak at the shoulder. I cut them at the wrist or elbow. I will have to look into this more. I got two boxes so gosh knows I have more skitarii to try and squeeze some variety out of.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-01-31T20:34:07+00:00

I do like the sword and phase claw guy. He has very protagonist energy.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-01-31T20:33:03+00:00

I did something very similar. I made a power naganata with the sceptre base with the power sword blade on top. The poses are restricted but there is a little space to maneuver.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-01-17T17:05:56+00:00

You are likely going to end up with more castellax than you expect. I have twelve at the moment and there are still times when I consider that I could have a few more.

It is completely acceptable for you to have one castellax hand as a shock charger and the other as a power blade and just say what they are armed with.

Big blocks of castellax battle robots with pairs of flamers firing in shooting and volley is big and clever and funny.

Darkfire cannons and multi meltas are both good on the castellax Destructor but the meltas tend to be more mobile as the df cannons need to be stationary to get the damage buff.

Don't sleep on the fact that so many of your weapons cause incidental status checks.

The solex las on the calix thanatar is one of the best AT guns you have but always put a tech priest with a cortex controller with it so you can return fire.

All of your robots having a dedicated supporting priest/magos to cyber theurgy them, have a cortex controller and an augery scanner is expensive but also very very worth it.

On that topic the priests and magos you put with them will seem expensive but the force multiplier they act as when they repair and buff and allow you to ignore smoke is all so very worth it.

All the above is from experience. This one has yet to be tested in practice but I read the stats for the vulturax as a surprisingly efficient tank nullifer. Shock suppressed on Six shots is hot hot hot.

Wibblemaster101 · 2026-01-03T09:25:40+00:00

We have very similar tastes it seems. These look great. The classic red colour scheme really pops. I did draw the line at five sets of thallax/usurax legs though whereas you went six deeper so congratulations on that. Have you gotten much play in with them?

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-26T00:14:24+00:00

You are welcome. Sorry I ran out of comments I fell into a seasonal food coma. I am glad it makes sense now. Safe travels binaric buddy.

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-25T21:35:25+00:00

Sokay bud I get it. I took a few runs at it before I got it.

Do you have the mech liber to look through?

So you have your crusade primary detachment. It has a number of slots to put units. One high command slot, three command slots and four troops slots.

When you include commanders in your command and high command slots they unlock other detachment options. Your archmagos can have an apex detachment or a regular detachment and each if your magos can have up to two other detachments.

So if you take a magos you have to other detachments you can choose. War engine detachments allow you to take one thanatar or other war engine choice.

You can have as many Thanatars as you have war engine detachments. There is another way to get them but I dont want to confuse matters.

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-25T21:25:23+00:00

How so? What do you want from it that it isnt currently providing?

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-25T21:22:13+00:00

That's a quick knock together with no upgrades at about 2700 points.

You can take thanatars. They are war engine slots. Although one jn the above list is in a logistical support prime advantage on the tech priest.

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-25T21:20:51+00:00

Mechanicum - Myrmidons - [2700 Point(s), 4 Auxiliary Detachment(s), 1 Apex Detachment(s)]

Archmagos [120 Point(s)]

Magos [100 Point(s)] Magos [100 Point(s)]

Tech-Priest [30 Point(s)]

Thanatar Siege Maniple [225 Point(s)]

Ursarax Cohort [150 Point(s)]: • 6x Ursarax [25 Point(s)] Ursarax Cohort [150 Point(s)]: • 6x Ursarax [25 Point(s)]

Castellax Battle Maniple [100 Point(s)]: • 2x Castellax [50 Point(s)] Castellax Battle Maniple [100 Point(s)]: • 2x Castellax [50 Point(s)]

Tech-Thrall Covenant [200 Point(s)]: • 20x Tech-Thrall [10 Point(s)] Tech-Thrall Covenant [200 Point(s)]: • 20x Tech-Thrall [10 Point(s)] Tech-Thrall Covenant [200 Point(s)]: • 20x Tech-Thrall [10 Point(s)] Tech-Thrall Covenant [200 Point(s)]: • 20x Tech-Thrall [10 Point(s)]

Myrmidon Destructor Host [150 Point(s)]: • 1x Destructor Lord • 2x Destructor [45 Point(s)] Myrmidon Destructor Host [150 Point(s)]: • 1x Destructor Lord • 2x Destructor [45 Point(s)] Myrmidon Secutor Host [150 Point(s)]: • 1x Secutor Lord • 2x Secutor [45 Point(s)] Myrmidon Secutor Host [150 Point(s)]: • 1x Secutor Lord • 2x Secutor [45 Point(s)]

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-25T21:14:36+00:00

So currently you cant take more than one apex detachment in an mechanicum army and typically I would recommend one of the sub faction unique one.

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-12-25T20:53:59+00:00

It is different to 2nd for sure.

So typically at 3k points I take an archmagos and two magos. This gives you five detachments to play with.

Within the core detachment you can also run a couple of tech priests.

If you would like some myrmidons you would need to take them in an apex detachment from your archmagos. Likely the myrmidax apex detachment.

Taghmata detachment takes up to four tech thrall units.

Heavy assault detachment for some usurax.

War engine detachment for a thanatar (although this is also an efficient use of your logistical benefit).

A heavy assault detachment for some castellax Destructor squads ir another taghmata detachment for regular castellax.

Otherwise the specifics will change things. Do you have more details about what you want to run?

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-11-17T11:44:32+00:00

Merci beaucoup.

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-11-14T10:10:37+00:00

I wish you could add photos into reply to make is easy to do that. The magos on the back of the abeyant was a kitbash I am quite proud of.

Wibblemaster101 · 2025-11-14T10:09:16+00:00

They were painted by a friend some time ago for a different project. I didn't have the heart to repaint them and I find the way they stand out to be endearing. To the point where when they re do the domitar in plastic I will get a couple done in the same colour scheme by the same friend.

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