Project 20 Marines - Part II

 

Colour-of-Dried-Blood Angel

It's been slow going with painting projects lately, just until I get a few things sorted out and free up some time and motivation. This post is nothing particularly special, and mostly just to ensure a few notes are kept about the Primaris assembly.

All of the planned twenty marines are now sufficiently assembled to start painting. It took some time to figure out the best approach the for Primaris models: the weapons are not separate from the arms. In the end I decided it best to assemble the arms fully onto the weapons, then allowing the shoulder pads to be glued into position, but keeping the arms only blu-tac'd in place for now. This allows the arms to remain in position for the airbrush stages, also keeping the shoulder pads with the same highlight direction, but easily removed later for easy access to chestplate and weapon painting.

I've yet to decide if various airbrushing stages should be done without and with the arms, or if various areas can be touched up with some Mephiston Red glazing later on.

As a further step from painting the backpacks, I'm experimenting with doing edge highlighting before the final airbrush highlight. I generally don't do much hard edge highlighting anymore and it's hoped that this will allow a softer but still defined edge highlight that I can then strengthen in areas as needed. I've done a single test model in this manner and it's worked well enough so far. The rest of the backpacks need doing yet, but a wet palette means I can just do one at a time whenever the motivation strikes.

For something completely different, getting something to hold each model has been another challenge. I don't particularly want tens of painting handles, but would like something to hold the models while airbrushed. To that end: plastic bottle caps glued onto old Citadel paint pots. It's not perfect, but does the trick. Once the airbrushing is done I can then glue each model onto its proper base and use the painting handles from there.

-- silly painter.