Aethon Heavy Sentinels — Wild Hunt of Hibernia
The Wild Hunt of Hibernia is my Solar Auxilia cohort — built around a world of deep forests, misty highlands, and ritual hunts for enormous antlered megafauna. The regiment takes its identity from the myth of the Wild Hunt: spectral riders chasing prey across the night sky. The colour scheme follows from that atmosphere. Sky blue armour. Brass trim gone rough with age and weather.
The Aethons fit the aesthetic well. They’re already ungainly and purposeful in the way a hunting pack is ungainly and purposeful — all legs and weapons, not built for parade grounds.
Each runs autocannon and missile battery. The autocannon does the steady work. The missile battery handles anything that needs discouraging at range. As a squadron they hold flanks and move through terrain that would stall heavier armour.
The kit is worth talking about. The legs are poseable — GW designed them with removable pegs so you can get actual variation between models in a squadron rather than three identical strides. It’s a small thing but it shows in the photos. Each one reads as its own machine.
The brass was the part I cared most about. Base coat, Agrax Earthshade into the recesses, then bringing back the highlights with bright brass. The goal was metal that looks like it’s been maintained but not pampered — functional wear, not display case shine.
These also became a photography experiment. The backdrops are coloured LED panels — magenta, split red and blue, warm orange against ruined terrain. I’ve been shooting more with higher iso’s and leaning into some grain, trying to figure out what gives a photo personality rather than just technical correctness. The magenta shots in particular pushed further than I usually go. I’m not sure they all landed, but I’d rather figure that out by trying.
The Wild Hunt will keep growing. More infantry, more armour, maybe even terrain that fits the Hibernian vibes. The Aethons are the first unit where the scheme started to feel like a coherent thing rather than a direction.
