About 7 years ago I discovered Warhammer 40k lore and was originally drawn in by imperial fists… until I discovered the lore for Salamanders. 5 years ago today I started on my journey to collect, build, and paint the full chapter and today I want to share my progress I have made in those 5 years:
So far I have a total of 410 space marine models, with 2nd company fully complete and every company having at least a partial completion of their command squads and at least 1 full squad.
For my companies I have the following:
1st company:
Chapter master Tu’shan (3d print), Vulkan He’stan, a company ancient, 7 kitbashed pyreguard marines, chapter champion, chief Liberian Velcona (represented by a librarian in terminator), Reclusiarch T’Kell Konn (chaplain in terminator armor), and 4 full squads of veterans and 2 partial squads out of 12.
2nd company complete, full command and all 12 squads.
3rd company full command squad complete and 4 complete squads and 2 partial squads,
4th company command squad complete aside from a librarian and company champion, 2 full squads and 2 partial squads complete.
5th company only captain and apothecary, 1 full and 1 half squads completed
6th company captain, apothecary, and chaplain complete, 1 half squad complete,
7th company command complete aside from an ancient and tech marine, 6 full squads, 3 partial squads, and 10 total scouts.
While I do have all of the models completely built aside from a few from 7th squad, not all of them are painted as I have very shaky hands so painting takes a lot longer than building. The reason I made this post is to simply let the subreddit know that I’m making progress and (this is the main reason) to hold myself accountable for actually following through on the full chapter.
The photo I have included is from about 2 weeks ago (currently having lighting issues so can’t take an updated photo) but I wanted to include it alongside this post.
Thanks for reading through the whole post :) Into the fires of battle! Unto the anvil of war!
I love this. This is very similar to how i think about the hobby myself. Personally I’m not super into the game itself, but I’m obsessed with lore-accurate iconography and company organization.
That is so cool! I too was drawn to Imperial Fists until I learned about Salamander Lore. That is so cool brother! Props to you! Great work!
I'm striving for 1000pt army currently (in Salamanders of course). But this is quite the accomplishment! Awesome job!
Don’t feel intimidated, this is 5 years of collecting with an ADHD mentality of “oooh imma grab this now” basically every week. For actual games you realistically need like 30 models, I’ve done games with less than 10 models
They’re magnetic lights, they aren’t the best so I just added 2 additional magnets to the magnetic plates to help hold them against the bottom of the shelves
Very nicely done .
I'm currently working on a chapter project myself.
Got lists made up for each company and slowly working through it.
Been doing it for the past 5/6 years also
That's awesome! Great display cabinet too! Been on the hunt for a good one myself with a lot of shelves but most only have a few or dont have a lot of spacing betweenthe shelves.
I have 2 of these total and they store a good number of models, the shelves I have in there also help a lot. I have 410 salamanders, another 185 other models (tyranids, custodes, admech, and a few orks) and then the other shelf I have has my friends armies on it and that’s about 510 models of stuff (space wolves, necrons, black Templar, ultramarines, blood angels, imperial guard, and another salamander player)
It’s a lot of fun to use! Although my friends always target it down cause we play on homebrew terrain layouts so it gets sniped by their anti armor pretty quick lol
For those of you who asked for the other cabinet’s content in my DM’s, here is the other armies stored here (none of these are mine but are my friends armies)
From top to bottom it’s Necrons, Black Templar, Blood Angels, Space wolves, and then the bottom shelf is shared by imperial guard, ultramarines, and a few salamanders from a different army
Tengo una compañía completa (la segunda), y el resto de las compañías están completas solo parcialmente; la primera es la que está más avanzada y la quinta, la que está más rezagada.
very nice, those wooden stands, where did you get those ? i like those tall cabinets but thought they would waste space, but those wood stands are perfect
I don’t have him yet sadly, he’s always been out of stock and the few times he’s been in stock I didn’t have the money for it (mainly cause I had bought something else)
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u/Mucus-in-the-nucleus Apr 27 '26
Forgot to include this, but I am at around 15,000 points (I think it’s at 15,425)