If you can't beat them, join them?

So playing Dark Angels, while thematic and cool, does come with a downside: no Centurions. With that in mind, I picked up the new SM codex and a box of Centurions to go with it. I just really dig the models, and those grav-guns they pack are quite heavy-hitting as well.

The kits are complicated as hell to put together. Each miniature has like 30 parts, if I am guessing correctly, which is a whole lot considering they are not much bigger than a Terminator. It was pretty rewarding to get through building them though. I'm pretty pleased with the models.

I have started painting the Sergeant, though I am no longer playing Dark Angels I see no reason to change the color scheme now. So I will paint them up as Dark Angels and just play them as vanilla. I don't think I'll miss much from the DA codex, since Deathwing armies aren't really a thing anymore. The interrogation school of psychic abilities didn't impress me all that much, and I never cared for Ravenwing style armies, so I think I'll be better off with a vanilla codex anyway.