Unboxing: Alpha Legion Praetor in Cataphractii Terminator Armour

One of the recent releases from Forge World are the new series of Legion themed Praetors for 30k and the Horus Heresy. Amongst these are two models for the Alpha Legion: one in power armour and one in terminator armour. I picked up the latter very recently and wanted to show what comes in the box.

First: the obligatory box shot.

As might be expected, this is a modest sized blister pack with the usual Forge World attention to detail in the artwork on the front.

The parts inside consist of five sprues of resin, and the circular base, as shown below.

The sprues here are very logical to put together: the main torso coupled with the cape attaches to the two shoulders and arms which have hands ready to extend them. As usual, the head can be positioned in any rotation. Perhaps unusually, the hand weapon comes with the power cables separate from the weapon itself. 

Although the power cables for the weapon will slot in readily, I will offer readers one word of advice: you will need to heat up the cape, shape it a little where it attaches to the back of the model, and then quickly glue it in to place before getting the shoulders and arms in position. Don't do what I did and glue the shoulders first … that way leads to misery. 

That said, my plan here is actually to do a little bit of a conversion on this terminator. I intend to replace the power sword (pictured lower right) with a different weapon. More on this project later!