Painting metallic pre-Heresy Sons of Horus
The Luna Wolves, and their later incarnation as the Sons of Horus, are one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions who get a lot of attention from pre-Heresy fans. Despite this, there is little official material from GW by way of a guide to their appearance. As the Sons of Horus, we’ve got no officially-painted miniatures and a handful of textual and artistic references.
My inspiration comes from the illustration in the Index Astartes article and a handful of references to the armour being a ‘metallic sea green’ in colour. I should mention that I've since seen a handful of examples painted using a Vallejo colour which is a very close (non-metallic) match for the Index Astartes illustration and looks good, although the precise name of the colour escapes me. The Collected Visions art books depict them in various tones, from pale green through green-grey to a very dark, almost black grey tone. I suppose one way to look at this is it leaves a lot of freedom for us to interpret things our own ways.
Contest: Bell of Lost Souls – Objectives
The great bell has just announced a new challenge to create a set of 3 objectives for any of their supported games systems. That being: 40k, Fantasy, Warmachine and Flames of War.
From their announcement:
Your challenge is to submit to the BoLS 1-3 high-quality pictures of the following:
Path of the Traitor count down
In just 3 days the Great Crusade team will be congregating at Warhammer World for a weekend of pre-Heresy gaming, both themed and freeform.
From The Path of the Traitor announcement:
You are all encouraged to bring your work-in-progress AOTE armies and play with the lists and rules you intend to use for the event in May - consider this a good chance to try out those new units and combos beforehand.
Painting Space Marine Legions – Alpha Legion – part b
Continuing from part A, this article concludes the guide for painting pre-Heresy Alpha Legion marines.
The model used for this tutorial was built in a previous tutorial:
Mark V power armour: Part A | Part B.
One of the risks of using PVA glue to create studs is that they can be easily rubbed off when handling the model. Inevitably some of the studs did rub off this model whislt painting, leaving some areas looking a little strange. A quick an easy way to resolve this, which also helps contribute to weathering the model, is to drill small holes where the studs should be. In the picture belows, I've drilled a hole in the helmet and shoulder pad where studs were rubbed off.
Preview: Space marine statue, Aquila + ruins scenery
A very brief snippet here, but you know what they say about pictures equating to words?
Here's a few coming soon:
Copyright Games Workshop 2010
At long last you say? This is going to be LOT of fun to convert!
From the text on the page, this looks like a set including all 3 pieces for €19.50, coming April 17th.
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