I’m toying around with the idea of doing a pre heresy army and these guys were my test run at a world eaters scheme. I’m still stuck on if I want to do a pure world eaters or a conglomeration of loyalist remnants from Istvan III. I like the loyalist idea because it allows me to paint many different chapter colors while retaining a nice theme. I’m just not sure how the different legion rules work. They’re not entirely clear on how you make your army a specific legion. Do you just declare it in the creation of the army list? If anyone knows for sure please let me know. I’m probably just missing it somewhere in the text.
As for the painting of these guys, I pretty much followed the forgeworld paint scheme for them. I primed them with the vallejo surface primer white and then washed them all with a mix of Drakenhof Nightshade, Nuln Oil, Lahmian Medium and Water (even parts of each). After that dries, sponge on ceramite white. The blue was Kantor blue highlighted with teclis blue with a bit of the wash from earlier. The brass was done with a base coat of some old tin bits and then sycorax bronze. To get the best results always base the metals with black first. I then washed this with secret weapons armor wash and gave it one more highlight with the sycorax brass. I used weathering powders on the base and lightly brushed them up onto the armor to give it a dirty worn look. I tried using some vallejo hull red to add armor chips but it didn’t quite turn out right. I’m not sure if I need more practice at painting them or just a new technique. I’ll try doing some research.
Anyways, thats that. Now its time to test up a few other color schemes. I have one I really want to try for the Emperors children involving runefang steel and tamiya clear purple .
Enjoy!
The Sneakiest Carp 