Legion Praetors - Sons of Horus - Part III (Showcase)

 

Gaze of the Legion.

The Sons of Horus Legion Praetors are now considered finished. It's about as all-out as I want to go with them - and yes, there's a lot more I could do, but with extremely diminishing returns. So they're done.

The heads I wanted somewhat different to the Blood Angels. It's nothing special:

• Bugman's Glow over the whole head.
  
• Guilliman Flesh Contrast over everything.
  
• Cadian Fleshtone for some highlighting.

A good paintbrush and thinned paints for the eyes, and basically that's it. I did mix in a little grey with the Bugman's Glow to glaze over the scalp to give a bit of a fuzz look, but fairly subtle. With all the bionic attachments, these guys keep a clean scalp.

I'm fairly pleased with the skin tone, as it contrasts well with the armour and keeps focus on the face where it belongs.

The trim metallics I tried to use Castellax Bronze on, but that ends up being about the same colour as the mix of Balthasar Gold, Warplock Bronze, and some Agrax Earthshade. All I ended up doing was adding back the metallic look after the varnish spray. Good to know that I could simply use Castellax Bronze in future. It was highlighted with Sycorax Bronze, and then a few extreme highlights with Canoptek Alloy.

One wonders how he sees past the pauldrons.

I played a little with Contrast paints over various silver metallics, which worked well enough on the weapons. Gives them a rugged, military look - aesthetics aren't as important to these praetors.

Good painting start to the year.

-- silly painter.