Project 20 Marines - Part VIII

 

Feuer Frei!

This won't be a very long post, as I'm still just trying to get through these twenty models. All the purity seals, rope, scrolls, cloth, and some minor additional details are now done. The Intercessors have been ready for longer - it's still all the magnitude of extras from the older kit that's slowing me down. On the one hand, getting models done is so much slower and that's frustrating, but on the other hand the older Tactical Marines look more impressive once completed. The older sculpts are much more personalised in Blood Angels tradition, whereas the Primaris are only just starting to get a feel for it. This fits in with the lore, but I doubt it's intentional - it's simply easier to manufacture the basic Primaris kit and pop in a few Chapter specific shoulder pads.

Not shown on the model above, cloth on a handful of models I tried slightly different - not in which paints to use, but in how to apply it. I tried to stipple the later highlight stages to give a more rough and textured appearance than armour panels might have. It sort of works, but sometimes also just looks like sandstone. Perhaps I need an extra paint on top to brighten it up a little. Still, Blood Angels might choose more sturdy material on the battlefield, and it does look that.

Most of the wings on the older kit I've decided to keep in black. Some exceptions of course, notably on the backback seen above, but seeing as I have both original and Primaris being done together I decided it was obviously not long after the Devastation of Baal, and the older troops are in mourning for the loss of their comrades. I even have one with a cloth or scroll, without fancy writing but instead lists of words - the names of those he fought alongside perhaps and is now continuing to honour in battle. It's sometimes fun to come up with a little story when painting details, just for motivation if nothing else.

And motivation is low once more. I've done enough now that I really can't put off starting on the helmets any longer. There are still gemstones to paint (a lot of gemstones - the Sergeant alone as 11 of them) and a few bits of gold detailing, but there will be more on the helmets. There's still a heap of unpainted guns to get ready as well.

In other words, still much to go, but they're starting to look like on approach to the home stretch. I'll definitely not be trying this again - I might be able to get ten Primaris done at a time, but the older models I think only five at a time....or maybe just individually.

I'll hold off posting on this project again until they're fully completed. Maybe I can get some of the Thunderhawk done in-between.

-- silly painter.