Building Templars

Mostly been doing a lot of building this week.  First up are the Vanguard Veterans.  I have to give GW props on all the new space marine models, the number of options not just in weapons, but posing, hands, ancillary equipment, it's awesome.  And the Vanguard Veterans are probably my favorite of all.

Pictured here with backpacks left off for painting.  I love the option of the left hand holding nothing, allowing me to put in an arm that looks like it's there for counterbalancing.  My only gripe is that they never alter the hands.  Pistols are always in the left hand, melee in the right.  I realize they likely do that for convenience, but it means I had to go to another kit to get a guy dual-wielding, and I would have loved one hammer in the left hand.

Oh, and then there's this guy.