IX Legion - the "Minigun Guys"

If one minigun doesn't work, try five.

They're classified as "complete" now. A few decals to round things off, simply because the Forgeworld ones seem to be of good quality. Didn't know how these fellows would fit into the legion hierarchy, so gave them 2nd company. One day I might paint something else on to indicate heavy support, but for now I'll just leave it as is.

Backpacks contain ammo storage, and I didn't want that to just be silver. Bullet casings elsewhere are more copper or brass in colour, so it didn't fit to just be some grey metal colour. Instead, Brass Scorpion was applied to give it just enough of a (brass) sheen. It also ties it in with the red armour just a little bit.

Pauldrons are edged in black, and given an Eshin Grey highlight, followed by more edging with Dawnstone. Same was done for the straps on the backpack, while the helmet only had Dawnstone applied. No highlights were done to the other black edging of the armour on accounting of wanting some of the black to show.

The insignia was based with black, and then highlighted with Dark Reaper, with final edging of Russ Grey in places. This helps separate the insignia from the shoulder pad edges, while still giving it that black look. I did try to put some 'Ardcoat on a blood drop, but it was far too shiny and really didn't harmonise with the rest of the model.

One thing missing from this set is an edge highlight of Wild Rider Red. I normally do that as a final highlight on red armour, but in this case it wasn't needed. Such highlights serve as a border around panel areas, giving more depth to the model. This was instead served by the black edging.

The barrels of the rotor cannons do not have any burnt or heated metal effect applied. If there would be anything, it would be a blackened muzzle. More or less didn't want that, because the gun was black enough as it is. Regular maintenance and more efficient propellant might help reduce blackened endings as well.

All in all, these models were a lot of fun to paint. Just would have liked the arm and weapon positioning to be less of a pain, but with plastic variants of the armour available, perhaps that won't be such a problem in future.

-- silly painter.