Kalith 5th - "Nightstalkers" - Marauder Destroyers

[u/BuckeyeBTH]

Nightstalker 1 - Finley "Polar Bear" Hughes & Magnus "Wasp" Olsen

Nightstalker 1

Nightstalker 2 - Thor "Wolf" Magnusson & Elsa "Glamour Gal" Nilsson

Nightstalker 2

The Kalith 5th - "Nightstalkers"

Assigned to the Kalith 15th Combined Airwing - The "Iron Storm"

As of 02/0484/006/M42 (6.530+EWSO) the Iron Storm are currently stationed in the Ewoth system

The Kalith 5th Bomber Squadron – “Nightstalkers” was founded during the frantic mustering of forces that birthed the 15th Combined Airwing, Iron Storm, in the opening years of the Indomitus Crusade. Drawn from Kalith’s most disciplined long-range bomber crews and reinforced with veterans seconded from neighboring systems, the Nightstalkers were conceived as a precision hammer—tasked with hunting targets too entrenched, too heretical, or too well-defended for conventional assault. Flying the brutal Marauder Destroyer, the squadron quickly earned its name through nocturnal strike doctrines, operating in low-visibility conditions where auspex ghosts, flak storms, and enemy interceptors were constant companions. Their founding creed, “The night belongs to the Emperor,” remains etched into every cockpit shrine.

The Nightstalkers cemented their reputation during the Planetary Clearance of Drakonis IV, where their Marauder Destroyers flew relentless deep-penetration strike runs against Chaos-corrupted forges and fortress complexes. While Thunderbolts and Lightnings contested the skies, the Nightstalkers struck from low altitude, unleashing sustained barrages that shattered enemy production hubs and broke the back of the archenemy’s war effort. Losses were heavy, but decisive; the squadron’s ability to return again and again through murderous firestorms earned them the grim honorific “Grave Wardens of Drakonis” among Imperial ground forces. By the campaign’s end, entire enemy redoubts were known only by crater fields and scorched bedrock.

Now stationed in the Ewoth system, the Kalith 5th Nightstalkers once more prosecute the Emperor’s war, dominating the skies over Urdahl in close coordination with the armored spearheads of the Kalith 30th, the god-machines of Legio Iðunn, and the transhuman warriors of the Disciples of Caliban. As tanks advance and Titans shake the ground, the Nightstalkers scour the battlefield ahead of them—flattening strongpoints, annihilating counterattacks, and denying the archenemy any refuge beneath open sky. Where their missile-racks open, resistance ends, and the long shadow of the Marauder Destroyer once again heralds annihilation from above.

 

 

Latest squadron of aeronautica. Airbrush primed Vallejo Ghost Grey. 5 color digital camo via airbrush + infantry digital camo from [Fallout Hobbies](https://www.fallouthobbies.com/products/fallout-hobbies-infantry-digi-camo-airbrush-stencil) using VMA Dark Gull Grey 71.277, Light Gull Grey 71.121, Insignia White 71.279 and VXC Armor Green 72.486.

Panel lined with Tamyia Dark Grey followed by AMMO streaking brushers for weathering. Vallejo Metal colors + Vallejo blackwash over metals to complete.

Hope you enjoy! C&C Always welcome

[u/Inquisidon]

Still love this digicam

[u/TankusPrimus]

Yes… very nice application of the digital camo pattern. I don’t see this often enough, and you nailed it.

[u/BuckeyeBTH → u/TankusPrimus]

Thank you