Space Marine Heroes 2 - Part IV

 

Clawing his way through the enemy.

Continuing with the Space Marine Heroes 2 set, another Terminator is finished. I've been working on a small set of them rather than batch painting, so expect more coming soon. All are in some level of basic armour finished, and I'll just be working my way through them two or three at a time now.

There's nothing particularly new with the painting again. Same formula as normal for my Blood Angels approach. The gloss varnish step really does help with applying shades, but also makes the model difficult to predict how it will end up - the matt varnish is still only done almost at the end, but I have an understanding of how it will turn out now.

The gold was done slightly different, purely because I wanted to see how it would look. I borrowed the specific colours used on the Ultramarine Lieutenant. It works ok in some areas, bu perhaps I'll mix it up in future with the "normal" gold approach I've been using with Blood Angels. It would serve as an excellent way to mix up filigree on future models.

As a random note, Skrag Brown heavily thinned makes for a good rust colour.

Decals are once again a massive pain for me to work with. The sheet used is seemingly of lesser quality - the decal did not adhere nicely, and softener had an incredibly hard time getting rid of the silvering effect. I decided to cover some of that up with a bit of battle damage - there's already some on the sculpt anyway, so it's not entirely out of place. Just another example of why I always prefer to paint sculpted details, or freehand, given the option - but the models here are too connected to the shoulder pads and decals it is. I'm sure some of the next models will have the same problem.

The lighting claws are Hoeth Blue, Skink Blue, and Wrack White. I could then use Praxeti White if I really wanted to punch the white some more, but I'm leaving it as is for now. My drybrushing techniques have slowly been improving, with the key for myself being to wipe off most on a paper towel rather than a plastic palette. With a little more practice I could even see myself being able to paint the majority of a model with drybrushing - something to think about one day.

The left glove in black is of course something that's been done on Blood Angels Terminators for a long time, and it just adds so much to the model that I'm continuing the trend.

Now onwards to the next model!

-- silly painter.