Heresy Era Imperial Fists - Tactical Squad(s) painting begins

Cracking on with the infantry for the Fists - Generally when working on an army I try to knock out the compulsory unit choices early on and get them out of the way, which acts as an incentive to work through 'em so I can get to the fun stuff!

Any self-respecting heresy army includes at least one big blob of tac marines, and for the Imperial Fists I decided to go with the more bulky and solid-looking Mk. III armour to contrast against the more sleek look of the Mk. IV assault marines. I had a rummage around in the heresy bits boxes and came up with enough spare models to throw in a second pair of vox & vexilla troopers and a spare bolter marine which will allow me to run them as two ten-man squads as well (hence the pair of Mk. III sergeants back in the characters post).

Next step was to get the yellow on 'em (and my fingers, desk and shirt). While I was at it I also did the yellow on all the character models, but realized I hadn't taken a pic of 'em yet. I'm trying to do the yellow on big swaths of models at once then come back to finish them off as units or individuals, as that ensures the yellow base colors match across the army.

Speaking of, I updated the painting chart to see how things looked. Turns out from a points perspective it's gotten a bit out of hand! Thinking about trimming the Phalanx Warders and Templar Brethren out of the list for points (and cost) reasons, honestly their rules are somewhat underwhelming though I can't deny the models are beautiful. I managed to finish off the terminators and dreadnoughts this morning, just waiting for it to warm up enough to seal 'em, and I'll get some pics up on the blog!