Blood Angel Aggressors

It's been a while since the last post, mostly because of personal items of interest claiming spare time, but finally a bit more painting done. I do seem to be bunny hopping from project to project, but that's ok - it keeps motivation higher sometimes. I still have Horus as a long standing project, then there's a Ultramarine Legion standard bearer, and now the Aggressors.

The aggros go marching one by one...

These were picked just because large surface areas, which is ideal for some quick airbrush experience. And they have helped in that regard. I'm still getting used to what works best for me, but a three stage approach seems to be working ok so far. After priming, there's a dark base coat, then highlight with the "true" base coat, then finish with a highlight.

Airbrushing is must less precise than a paint brush, so I'm trying to adapt highlighting techniques to match. Directional highlighting is easy, but less interesting sometimes, so I'm going for "patched highlighting". Basically pick an area and highlight as an entire patch, regardless of detail or corners. I'll go back over it later with a shade or some fine-tuned highlights to soften up patch and harmonise everything together. If that makes sense.

Aggressors have the unfortunate attribute of needing to glue the heads in place during torso assembly. So in this case, the heads and inside cowling was painted first and then assembled. Some blu-tac was used to cover up the area prior to priming the (mostly) assembled model and during airbrushing. This seems to have worked rather well, so now it's time to start filling in details and bringing these guys to life.

Oh, and the picture doesn't do them justice as always. Still need to source another proper camera.

-- silly painter.