Project 20 Marines - Part IX (Showcase)

 

Survivors of the Tyranid assault on Baal.

Finally, the project of painting 20 Space Marines in one big batch has been done. Took long enough. I've mentioned before that this kind of painting simply isn't for me - I don't batch paint easily, at least not with Blood Angels. I prefer to pay attention to details, to give meaning to just about every colour used, every choice made. That kind of approach just doesn't lend well to batch painting, and is highly demotivational when thinking that there's 20 models this needs to be done on. I'd have finished them all much faster if I'd done them one at a time.

Filling the ranks of the 2nd Company.

There are some areas that worked well in batch painting. The helmets surprisingly were fine in that regard. The weapons mostly too, although that could just be because I was starting to approach the finish line by then. The general base armour worked just fine in batched mode because I don't have much time during the day and it's easy to keep two or three colours on a wet palette and just do a little bit here and there when I can. So maybe that's the better approach - do what I can in batches, then finish off models one or two at a time.

The Primaris were the easiest to go through in batch mode. They're all quite similar, and with very little embellishment on each model. The tactical squad though look much more interesting in the end, but are simply so much more difficult to do in batch mode.

I'm getting much more effective at using the decal softener. I was wiping away excess, but realised I don't need to - it will do its job just fine without that, and there's no need to push a decal onto a surface - the softener will pull it to the surface ok. On the note of decals, I'm putting most older models into 3rd Company, newer Primaris into 2nd Company. Not exclusively that way, but it let's me use more of the squad designation decals. I've also tried to paint areas on those models without knee pads so that they still indicate which squad. Don't really know why it's important, but I'm kind of just going with it now.

Oh, and keeping a sheet of "how to paint Blood Angels" really made even this slow attempt possible. I'd have been lost without that. I will keep going with squads as I can, but need a small break with other models before I start on the next.

Using my "1 model for every 2 painted" mantra, I can now permit myself to buy 7 models. I bought a few small things before the price rise, so I reset the count assuming these squads done.

-- silly painter.