My Forgeworld venerable dreadnought Argandus from my space marine chapter. This model's due for an update, changing it to a 'Furioso' dreadnought as I'm using the new Blood Angels codex for my chapter.

Word of warning to anyone looking to buy Forgeworld resin models, they can be an arse to paint even after cleaning because of the texture. This one was difficult because the head just didn't want to stay where I wanted it >_<;

Here's a little back story to this dreadnought:

Before his internment within the armoured sarcophagus of his current shell, Argandus had recently returned to the chapter from duty with the Deathwatch.

As with most other Swords of Fortis space marines he chose to fight within the Death Knights, an elite gathering of warriors dedicated to the teachings of their chapter and taking the battle to the enemy.

After pushing back an Ork horde to its base camp, the xenos had been driven back into small pockets of warbands. When he and his fellow bretheren found one of the warbands the warboss, who had led the entire Ork army, lumbered up to tear them apart.

He dispatched the others before he turned to face Argandus, the two fought in hand to hand for several hours, until finally Argandus succeded in driving his chainsword through the warboss' skull, but leaving himself open the warboss tore through his chestplate with a gigantic power claw. With the warboss dead the rest of the Orks soon fell into dissaray and were defeated.

When apothacaries found him he was barely alive, and was given the honour of being placed inside the sarcophagus of an ancient pre-heresy MKIV dreadnought.





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