Blood Angels Assault Intercessors - Part I

 

Assault Marine, looking for Apepper Marine.

With very limited time to paint these days, I've had some Assault Intercessors plodding along in the background for a while. I'm batch painting five of them, which is actually easier to do right now compared to a single model.

When batch painting I like to tag sub-assemblies in order to more easily track which part belongs to which model. Normally this is done with markings on various sticks the pieces are glued onto, but here it's easy to see another way: Roman numerals on the base. they will be painted over later on, after everything is finished enough for complete assembly.

The airbrushing stage I had done with one paint at a time, on different days. The steps are still the same (and I really should do a post summarising everything I do for Blood Angels) just in shorter bursts. This meant that the airbrush was well cleaned between paints, and each model actually received more overall attention because I wasn't fatigued by the end. So the airbrush quality on these is one of the best I've done so far, and I think I'll try repeat it again whenever I get to the next set of models.

The helmets have been finished and all glued in, and the armour (including backpack) fully edge highlighted. I did a little more edge highlighting than previous models, just feeling like this time I could get away with it. Here's where batch painting was strangely easier for me.

Sometimes I might have a ten minute window to paint in. That's not much, and getting paints out, setting up, and any clean up, would take just about all that time. Wet palette to the rescue. By having the main reds already on the wet palette, I can just pick up a brush and start painting. Any small mistakes are fixed up as I go, and if an edge highlight is too bright I can tone it back slightly - all the paints are right there on the palette, and it saves just so much time. The shading step was almost the same, just keeping the pot handy and directing the shade directly into recessed areas. Knowing exactly what I want to do, a wet palette, and I'm still making progress: slow progress, but progress nonetheless.

I do like the looks of these models. Different poses to the Death Company models done prior, and obviously different colours, but the same basic design that really works. Also, I quite like how the models have a hexagonal attachment component to the bases. That helped to paint the bases and then glue the model in place. Some minor touchups will need to be done later, but they should hold very securely.

Now I just have to keep on painting.

-- silly painter.