(Painting) Ignate Perditius, Lost Space Marine for Planet 28

Fun Fact: The first time I ever played 40k was using the Orks and Gretchin from the 2nd Edition boxed set. roughly early 1994.  Flash forward 28 years later, and I've completed my first ever Space Marine.  

I picked up a small pile of Space Marines at a flea market on the cheap (Maja got some Imperial Guard for free).  After many moons of sitting in a bin, I finally grabbed one and put on a variant of Fauxhammer's personal chapter, with a variant storyline.  

Short story, good ol' Ignate Perditius was a newb when his unit of Space Marines got sucked into a vortex of some sort and got deposited on Ruie, a backwater planet with some industrialization but no way off.  To complicate things, numerous other military factions, some from what appeared to be completely different universes.

Ignate's unit managed to carve out a decent corner of the local, but heavy losses continued to shrink their gains, until it was only him a few remaining members of the cohort.  From there, he disbanded the unit and struck out on his home.  

It's unknown what chapter Ignate was originally with, and the few people who would have such knowledge either don't remember or don't care to remember.  Other Space Marine of various chapters have appeared and moved on, sometimes joining forces in the interim.  Almost all followed the same path when it came to equipment maintenance. 

As equipment and armor wore out, the Space Marines used whatever materials and paint that they could scrounge.  A stockpile of of primer gray and what was labelled "DOT Orange" were enough to give many fresh coats.  Many wandering the world are entirely the two colors, while the others are simply painting over the worn out pieces of armor first, and updating further as time passed.

While, much of the armor has been scrounged up to make repairs, Ignate's chest plate is still original, so much so that the Imperial Aquila has largely been worn down.   He doesn't really remember what that symbol stood for, just that it used to be important to him... in a past life. 

For Ignate, years on planet have left him with with a bolt pistol and a civilian grade chainsword to deal with the foes, civilians, and bests he's encountered on planet.

Ignate Perditius - Lost Space Mariner   257 points

Shooting -  5   Fighting - 7   Agility - 7 Hit Points - 20   Speed - 10cm

Traits: Shore Footed, Unshakable

Equipment:  Bolt Pistol (1d10+2 damage, range 25), Chainsword (2d6+6) , Heavy Armor (1d12+6, -1 Agility already calculated)

And let's not forget another crack at the recycled packing material I'm using for sci-fi terrain.

My knifework for the windows is getting more confidence, and I may need to expand this further as I'm in talks to run multiple games for Historicon, and a fun, inexpensive sci-fi game isn't entirely out of the question.  

PROJECT: 350 -  A continued steady drop to 454 (303/151)  from 457 (303/154) from 457 (305/152) a week ago.  Outside of the weekly Star Wars d6 actual plays and a holiday post for Easter, I need to work on getting more projects to fruition.  

Next: Nature abhors a vacuum, and my painting bench is doing its best to fill every open space with a figure for the queue.  I'm hoping to have the Hultr done shortly, complete with a scene with a contemporary reference.  The Pulp Season 4 project got some paint to figures, and with 110 days or so till Historicon, I'm working on prioritizing bench space for refurbishing projects or straight out unit building for July games.