Legion IX Rotor Cannon

The "minigun guys", as I've come to call them, are progressing along at the usual slow painting speed.

The enemies of Mankind definitely have time to bleed.

As is usual, the photo doesn't show the nuances of the painting scheme. Highlights and blending can't really be seen, but no matter. The models are completely assembled now, and there starts to be an impression of just how they'll appear when fully done.

One slight annoyance that I'm not going to fix: the left hand thumb. If I could think of a non-destructive way to bend it over, I would. Instead I guess it's some kind of "ready hold".

The ammo feed was a little tricky to get glued in right, though I mostly had the knack by the 5th model (not shown). In future, it might be a better idea to glue the ammo feed to the gun and backpack with neither fitted to the model and before trying to bend the ammo feed, but that assumes the gun will fit to the hand pose nicely. Regardless, I found a fairly simple method was to glue it to the gun first, then when dry point a hair dryer at the ammo fee. It becomes quite malleable, which is a sign to quickly bend it to the right place and wait a minute to cool down (obviously with the hair dryer turned off). This sets the resin in place and makes gluing to the backpack much, much easier.
Even so, a couple of places were snipped to give a better, if angled, connection.

For the ammo feed, bending it was done before painting. Normally I'd use some black spray as a primer, but that wasn't really an option here. Instead, a thin coat of Imperial Primer, followed by black with a brush. Leadbelcher on top, with some Brass Scorpion to pick out the rails. A wash of Nuln Oil later, and that's really it.

The backpack still needs some attention, the rotor cannon needs some highlights picking out on the barrel, and possibly some scorching, shoulder pad trim needs a highlight, and the Blood Angel insignia (which is black this time around as well) needs some highlighting too. I'm tempted to try a black marble effect there, just for something different.

-- silly painter.