Dark Mechanicus project – Chimera and StuG
Fresh from the forge, I've painted up a customised Chimera to fit with the StuG shown previously. The dark red will be repeated across the tanks to help keep the army looking uniform on the battlefield as there's going to be plenty of unique traits to each individual vehicle.
The obvious difference to the model is the exposed tracks, which I'm drawing inspiration from World War I vehicles (though most real world tanks are like this!). I've reconstructed the top of the vehicle a little to put the turret towards the back of the vehicle and drop those ugly lasgun portholes.
Dark Mechanicus project – The StuG!
Deadlines are fast approaching - the Age of the Emperor campaign is less than 80 days away and my army is in serious need of attention. Typically, I chose to start a new army from scratch and in this case, one that requires a lot more custom work than most - Dark Mechanicus.
Combining several aspects of the 40k (30k!) background, this force will be an amalgamation of Adeptus mechanicus, daemons, robots and heretics. As such, I am looking to make almost every model unique.
Creating Space Marine Legions: Thousand Sons – part 1
I've always been a fan of both Tzeentch and the Thousand Sons, originally through the seduction of Chaos in my earlier years, but more recently with the original legion. I've been itching for an excuse to build some pre-Heresy Thousand Sons for a while now, so here's my first venture into the path of the sorceror!
The Thousand Sons are one of the most stylized legions, with highly ornate decorations on their armour and unique weaponry. Their concept is undeniably inspired by Egyptian architecture and mythology, adorned with iconography such as scarabs and khepesh-like blades.
Fortunately the Chaos Space Marine range provides plenty of options to meet these needs.
Painting metallic pre-Heresy Thousand Sons
This is my method for painting metallic pre-Heresy Thousand Sons, in seven easy steps. I've been assembling a force for a while and this is a test scheme I tried out; in the end I decided not to go for the metallic look on the force, although there was interest about how the look was achieved and so I created this tutorial.
I spent a while looking for metallic red paints but didn't find anything which worked well for my purposes. If anyone does, though, please let me know! So this is all done with Games Workshop paints (regular, Foundation, and washes).
It is important that you let each layer dry fully before painting the next. This can take a few hours but if you don't wait for them to dry then the paint can pool and mix in funny ways you don't want. Aside from drying time it's very fast, and could be sped up more by batch-painting and/or using an airbrush.
Creating pre-Heresy marines: Part 6b mark V Power Armour
Continuing and concluding the pre-Herey power armour series, this is the second part of Creating pre-Heresy marines: mark V Power Armour.
You can view the first part of this tutorial here: part 1.
The second part of this tutorial shows how to make power cables for the thigh plates and a quick method of adding studs to the whole model.
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