At this point I decided to add some more SHTs to the army. I started with the Stormblade, which is a bit of an oddity. When I originally bought the Shadowsword company, one of the Volcano Cannons was so badly miscast that it was unusable. I would have tried to get a replacement, but FW had just discontinued the models, so that wasn't possible. A bit later, I managed to find another FW Shadowsword on eBay. However, strangely it was slightly bigger than the others. It wasn't a huge difference, maybe 5% or so, but it was enough that I decided not to use it in the same company, so instead I carefully removed the Volcano Cannon and glued it into the hull of the Shadowsword that had previously been missing one.
However, this meant I still had a spare Shadowsword chassis with no main weapon. I still had a couple of spare Plasma Blastguns left over from my Feral titan conversions, and one of those fitted nicely into the slot, leaving me with a fairly convincing Stormblade. I used a Heavy Bolter that was left over from a Space Marine model (either an Attack Bike or a Land Speeder, I can't remember) to add the hull-mounted HB and replaced the sensor turrets with 3D printed lascannon ones to complete the transformation.
Having included a Stormblade in the army, I figured I might as well complete the set and so I printed off a Stormsword and a Stormhammer as well. The model I used for the Stormhammer has no details on the tracks, so I added those manually with a thin layer of greenstuff. The results are a little bit rough and ready, but they'll do.
(Click for larger image.)The Stormblade is the first time I've attempted to do OSL. Seeing as I haven't done it before, I kept it fairly suble, but I tried to add a hint of a blue glow from the plasma coils. It's not perfect but I think it's come out OK.
Next up will be scouts. I have more Rough Riders, some Sentinels, Vultures and Stormtroopers to do. I don't know what order I'll do them in yet.
There are also some more truescale Chaos Titans waiting for my attention, so those might find their way into the queue sooner rather than later.