Final Competition entry!

The theme for this competition if i remember correctly, was Broken Legions, the wounded, dying, dead et cetera, Tragedy in mini form.


Way back when, there was a piece of art in an Index Astartes article that stuck with me, and lead to my love for both the Heresy (or, more specifically, Great Crusade) era, and the Iron Warriors legion.

Ta-daaaa.

 

The tragedy incumbent in that is fantastic, to me. It reflects how and why they turned at a far, far deeper level than "Tentacles are cool."

Thrown against fortifications, taking heavy losses in brutal battles of attrition, only to break the walls and have some pompous twits in bright yellow armour fly their flag and take all the credit.   A legion wittled down, discarded and abused, used as cannon fodder.  Always gave me a different viewpoint on Chaos, and it's really nice to see the modern Heresy fiction going in this direction, and stressing that the "Traitor" legions aren't simply Evil, they're manipulated and desperate.


Anyway, the second i read the theme, this came to mind, and i had to have a crack at it.

Not perfect, but close enough - unfortunately, time constraints on the competitions stopped me sculpting anything fancy or adding more studs, and base constraints stopped me adding more corpses & marines (Or a distant castle full of assholes.) but i'm happy with it.