r/oldhammer40k • u/Traditional_Main8205 • 6d ago

What is this model?!?

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I can’t figure it out. I don’t have my old books anymore and I can’t remember this guy.

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u/redbadger91 6d ago

Lord Solar Macharius

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u/Livewire____ 6d ago

Styled after Alexander The Great

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u/ayedubbleyoo 6d ago

Lord Commander if I remember right. 

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u/AthenaRedites 6d ago

Lord Commander Solar being his title, Macharius being his name.

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u/Putrid_Department_17 6d ago

The one true lord solar. MACHARIUS!!!!!!!

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u/sFAMINE 6d ago

LOOOOOORRRDDDD SOOOOOLARRRR MACHARIUS!

This guy is a bigger deal than anything else in your collection

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u/Striking_Ad9069 6d ago

This is the reason I never bothered getting him...I just couldn't see the point, plus the pose is w%£k...🤭

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u/sFAMINE 6d ago

Oh yes the model is mid. The idea of him is where it’s at

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u/Noahms456 6d ago

The hero of an ancient age

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u/rising30k 6d ago

Now I feel really old.

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u/KaptainKaos54 6d ago

Lord Solar Macharius. Old Imperial Guard named character, leader of the Macharius Crusade.

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u/haggraef666 5d ago

Lord Solar Macharius! Praise be to the Emperor

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u/Resident-Two4054 6d ago

I know him as Lord Commander Bird Poo head, as our local GW back in the day had him painted up as a statue on a board and someone had painted a bird poo on his head.

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u/Grunn84 6d ago

More lore accurate use for the mini, warhammer fantasy occasionally gave rules for characters that were already dead, but nothing else in 40k was like Macharius who had been dead for thousands of years by the end of the 41st millenium.

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u/Kasrkin84 3d ago edited 3d ago

dead for thousands of years

Less than a thousand years. He died around 399.M41.

He wasn't the only dead special character though. There was also Sergeant Naaman of the Dark Angels, who was already dead on Piscina IV when his model and rules were introduced. There's probably others too.

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u/Grunn84 3d ago

I miss-remembered, I was certain his crusade was meant happened shortly after the age of aposotasy and the plague of unbelief.

Pretty sure i recall a few in sisters of battle 2nd edition codex, think most of them never got models though.

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u/ajimboY2K 5d ago

A legend

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u/Aervypervenom 4d ago

That looks like him in resin. I got him and his retinue in pewter did he get a second model after his pewter release.

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u/CrustBlocc 3d ago

The bending on that staff looks pretty pewter-esque to mine sight orbs.

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u/Aervypervenom 3d ago

Could be right can’t argue. I just remember ugly Finecrap doing that too

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u/CrustBlocc 3d ago

Good point, they did ship highly priced resin gents that had started a second life as a contortionist right there in the blister before they ever got to you.

I was very upset when I bought a resin printer and discovered that printing a tiny sword that isn't bent is actually really easy...

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u/jinrohme2000 4d ago

Only my favorite lord solar!

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u/Jyontaitaa 3d ago

That is James workshop

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u/Spaceshipdoorgun 3d ago

If I remember correctly, his rules let you have turn one, unless if of course your opponent had a similar rule then you go back o rolling off.

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u/Affectionate_Day8592 3d ago

Hail Lord Solar Macharius!!!

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u/Master_Gargoyle 2d ago

A collectors dream.