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Lord Seneschal and Commander of the First Assault Cadre of the Imperial Fists
Fafnir Rann is a true son of Dorn; he believes that a offense is a good defense. He is as much a bulwark when he uses his shield as he is a whirlwind of blades when he trades the protection for twin power axes. He is a native of Inwit, and joined the legion to become an Imperial Fist when Rogal Dorn was discovered by the Emperor and had a storied career.
He was present at the battle at Phall, counter-assaulting the Iron Warriors. He was assumedly on Terra for the preparations of the Siege after that and led the Assault forces against the Iron warriors at the Lion’s Gate Space Port. Well after the Siege had ended, and the Scouring had commenced, Fafnir Rann was Chapter Master of the Executioners, a Third Founding Chapter
Painting the yellow and getting the gradient to orange wasn’t nearly as tough as I thought; I airbrushed him Averland Sunset. Then I applied a 3 to 1 medium to Iyanden yellow contrast paint to the bottom two-thirds of each armor panel, and repeated that step again with the bottom third. Done. I think it looks brilliant.
What wasn’t easy was keeping the silver trim where it was supposed to be while danger-close to the yellow. I used Iron Hands steel so as to be a bit brighter than leadbelcher. I screwed up a few times, but less than was expected. After the Iron Hands steel was applied, I hit it with half medium and half Basilicanum gray contrast and then brightened it up with the Iron Hands color again, and did a final edge highlight of Stormhost Silver.
Fafnir Rann was one of the two Black Library Celebration figures released in 2022 for the Siege of Terra novel series. He is also a character in the Sigismund book. He’s certainly not one of the biggest names in the series but he got some attention in the Siege and the model is spectacular. Got my first Imperial Fists model complete. I’m sure some more are just around the corner.
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Tyson
Obsessive and neurotic collector of little plastic men, novels about the same little plastic men and paints to make the little plastic men pretty. Married to Kera, who puts up with him and pretends that she doesn’t hear him speaking to the little plastic men in between making pew pew noises in the hobby room. Requires adult supervision. A menace to himself but rarely to others. More beard than man
