Another Squad Bites the Dust

Today I made good on my intentions to build an assault squad.  I used the assault squad and Death Company boxes with some bits from the Command Squad bow mixed in.  I wanted to get them finished today because I have plenty of stuff to put together for this coming week, but also so I could prime them in the morning.  Weather allowing of course, as it's been pretty cold here the last couple days.  I botched one of the Death Company jump packs, two really.  One of the packs has a cord running around the exhausts, two halves that definitely go together.  The first time I made this pack, for another assault sergeant, I got the halves matched up, but in the batch cleaning and assembling I did today that small detail got missed.  Other than that I'm very happy with them.

Full assault squad, check.

I pinned the metal meltagun hand into the arm.  I considered pinning the arms to the shoulders as well, but decided to skip it as excessive.  I drilled all the barrels except the metal one, which I'll just paint.  I think the 50/50 assault/Death Company mix worked well.  It just occurred to me that I haven't based these guys, so maybe I won't prime them tomorrow and base them instead.  If that's the case I'll try and get the other meltagunners, and maybe the Sanguinary Priest, done tomorrow as well.  Updated to-do list:

5 Sanguinary Guard - built
Full assault squad - built
3 jump pack meltagunners - box (one torso assembled)
Jump Pack Sanguinary Priest - box
various arms/backpacks/bits -box

Wednesday is scheduled, and Tuesday is going to be too soon, so I'm looking at Thursday or Friday for the first game with the new list.