Space Marine Heroes 2 - Part V

 

The enemy has time to bleed.

Not really deserving a full post, so this might be shorter but a couple more models are now "done". There are a few places on each where I'm not entirely happy, but they're not going into competitions and are well enough to give each model some presence, so I'm classifying them as done.

I struggled with the bases for a long while, and in the end Celestra Grey with Basilicanum Grey did most of the heavy lifting for me. Once that was done, the rest kind of just followed. There's a lot of neutral grey in there, but it's not colour I was interested in so much as a lighter value to offset the armour. I find it balances well against the Aquila on the chest, the Crux Terminatus, and the blacks elsewhere.

The assault cannon model (Brother Fuerran) has the best decal application of recent times, but it still look a lot to get it right.

Missiles.T That look like eyes. Well that's creepy.

Brother Ebellius could also have done with a little more work on the right knee pad, but I didn't want to ruin it with a poorly applied decal, or even worse freehand, so I left it alone. And now I look at the picture, there are two service studs on his head not painted - something very soon to be corrected! The chapter symbol decal was so troublesome that I ended up actually putting down a little gold freehand filigree - and it's not even decent by any stretch of the imagination, but still looks better than what it's covering up. The face also has so much character that I couldn't imagine using the helmet option.

With these two finished, the tally of models in the "1 for every 2 painted" now stands at 10.5, and hopefully will rise a bit more before the end of the year. There are still six more left in the Heroes 2 set that I have.

-- silly painter.