Project 20 Marines - Part VII

 

Prepare for power fisting.

To be honest, I'm at the stage now of just wanting to get these models done. They've been sitting long enough, I've learned enough, and just want them finished. If it were just the newer Primaris, they'd already be done. The older models however, are covered in details - enough to be individually considered special characters in their own right. It looks amazing all lined up, but the effort required to paint it all a satisfactory level is equally impressive. So I continue.

The model pictured has had a decent amount of handling, and so paint is wearing off in places, even through the varnish. The particular problem I'm facing with this one is actually the details on the legs - I want them all painted prior to gluing the torso in place (it's just held there with blu-tac right now) and so I'm having to constantly handle separate pieces. This is motivating me to get some of the details finished on this model sooner rather than later, just to glue everything together and then only need to touch the base.

Fortunately ropes, scroll carvings, cloth, and purity seal parchment all use one of two base colours: Steel Legion Drab or Zandri Dust. Shades of different sorts are applied, or other cream and brown colours, but the basic impression is there with the base colours, so they're all looking a little more on the way to be finished. I won't bother filling in the scheme used for each of these details: that's already documented elsewhere.

After the ropes, cloth, parchment, scrolls, etc, there still needs to be gemstones, missing filigree and icons, the helmets, and various weapons. I'm considering getting models up to speed individually for the final steps there - it keeps motivation fairly high seeing models being further alone. It's also slightly against the original intention: to paint twenty marines simultaneously. I will see how I feel, but at least the next steps are fairly clear.

Gemstones attached to armour I'm intending to a mixture of purple and red. Anything surrounded entirely by red armour will very likely be purple just to mix it up, and hanging ornaments being red.

One small extra: the grenades with some models I've decided on simple scheme for: Leadbelcher base, and then Athonian Camoshade for fragmentation, and Drakenhof Nightshade for the others. The shades don't really stand out much, and don't really tint the colour much, but it's simple enough to do and works.

-- silly painter.