Dark Angels Primaris Intercessors

I finished the first 5 Primaris Intercessors to go with my Dark Angels. These are the basic guys from Dark Imperium, with pauldron markings from Pop Goes the Monkey on Shapeways.

Part of me wishes that I'd gone with a darker green a little closer to my Tactical Marines, but another part of me thinks that the lighter green looks better at tabletop distance. Also, I'm not sure if I should be doing more edge highlighting or just letting the airbrush handle most of the heavy lifting, like I have here. I like edge highlighting on minimarines, but the Primaris are large enough that they pick up natural highlighting from ambient light and I almost feel that for tabletop standard you don't have to go nuts.

That might just be me, though.

Kill Team Cruor Dexter

A week or two ago when the hashtag #myfirstwarhammer was going around, I got inspired to make a Kill Team using the old Marines Cruor Dexter colors (that I haven't really used since I started painting Dark Angels). I still had half-built Veterans made with the ancient metal Iron Hands upgrade pack, cut into even smaller bits to spread out the love. So using my new-ish airbrush, here is the Kill Team Cruor Dexter...

This is the leader- a standard Astartes sarge with plasma pistol and Auspex.



Here are a couple of non-specialists- a beakie with a bolt pistol chucking a grenade (as you can see, his bolter is empty, and he has an entire purity page...) and a cybered-up standard dude.



The three minimarines, before painting. You can see that I split the legs from the Iron Hands upgrade pack to get twice as many augmented guys (although in the fluff for these guys they are primarily prosthetics rather than augmetics- the result of a Dark Eldar incursion on a shrine world they were defending). I might go and finish up a whole squad of Veterans using these old guys at some point.

The last of the old-school Marines is this sniper scout. He was originally painted around 2004.

And wrapping everything up are 3 Primaris marines- 2 Reivers (Combat and Zealot) and a Primaris Lieutenant pretending he's a non-specialist Sergeant with auto bolt rifle and auspex (he probably has one in a pouch somewhere, IDK).

So that's them. I'm really pleased with how they came out- the first real group of dudes I've done more than simple basecoating on with the airbrush! The main purple is P3 Beaten Purple with edge highlights of Vallejo Warlord Purple and a wash Citadel Druchii Violet/Secret Weapon Soft Body Black mixed , the reds are Plaid Folk Art True Burgundy glazed on over some Vallejo brown leather color, and the gunmetal is P3 Pig Iron. The golds are Vallejo Liquid Metal (the old alcohol based ones).

... and I'll leave it with the guy that started the whole thing...

April Showers Bring May Updates

So, since February I've-

-Finished that Dark Angels Rhino. The gloss clear spray that I used on it lifted and crinkled the paint underneath. I opted not to strip it and start over, but rather just accept it as a learning experience, airbrush some Vallejo Satin Poly over top, and move on.

-Added 5th Company knee markings to my Dark Angels tactical dudes.

-Finally found a good deal on an Interrogator-Chaplain Seraphicus from the "limited edition" Dark Vengeance set. He's an eBay rescue and will need a bit of love. Also in the 'eBay Rescue Box' is a plastic Interrogator-Chaplian (he's my current project to give me a break from blue-grey Dark Eldar), a command squad, and I'm also working on a magnetized standard bearer/Ancient. He's fun- I can't wait to show it off.

-I've finished up the Scourges, 2 units of Kabalites, 1 unit of Reavers, and primed and base-coated some Wyches, a unit of Hellions, a Venom, and 2 Raiders for my wife's Drukhari army. I've also got some old-school Incubi and a Beastmaster that we aren't sure what to do with.

So until next time...

A quick reminder on clearcoats...

Don't spray any other rattle-can clearcoat over a Rustoleum clear, or spray Rustoleum clear over any other clearcoat. Even another Rustoleum clear.

Pic is related.

Dark El... err. Drukhari Scourges

Ages and ages ago my wife got about 1000-ish points of Dark Eldar. We started working on them, but life got in the way and they (along with all the rest of the 40k stuff, and most of our other hobbies) were put away until later. Well it's later, and now that the kids are older we have a little more time to goof around with stuff.

Here are a few pictures of the Scourges I've started painting up for her- she wanted them to look sort-of like mockingbirds, which I thought was a pretty neat idea. I may do a more full featured writeup on what I did and how I did it when they are completed.

Stencils

You can take the dude out of the game, but you can't take the game out of the dude.

I've gotten back into building models- and part of that means going back and finishing things that have been sitting around half-painted for years and years. This Dark Angels rhino has resin upgrades (I thought they were legit when I got them off of eBay- turns out they are FauxgeWorld) and a magnetised top hatch.

I should be finished with it some time around 2025, if I keep to my current pace.