SPHESS MAHREENS!

Unsurprisingly, I have some space marines in my collection. My homebrew chapter is an Imperial Fists successor called the Abominators. I shall have to do a lore dump at some point, once I've condensed all my various ideas into something cogent. 

Space marines comprise a sizeable part of my plastic pile of shame; mostly firstborn as I want to go wild kitbashing them out of the various armour marks. I probably have enough to field a nearly full strength company but won't paint them as such. In reality, companies are rarely fielded en masse but are usually deployed across different warzones, aided by contingents from the support companies. The primaris that I do have will mostly be from said support companies, placed their when Cawl's reinforcements made contact, their firstborn colleagues rotated to the battleline companies.

Intercessors with a Lieutenant

Most of my primaris marines are from Dark Imperium and Shadowspear sets, with the above from the former. There is some kitbashing on the lieutenant and the sergeants but I wished I'd waited and combined the push fit intercessors with the multi-part kit, just for a tad more variety.

Lieutenant in the centre, Sergeants on the left & right

The two on the left were painted with a white undercoat, which led to a washed out finish. I tried out two washes, Athonian Camoshade and Biel-Tan Green respectively.  I think the Camoshade came out best so I might look into washing the other models armour the same.

Intercessors

They're enjoyable to paint and thus made a good test bed for my scheme. It came into being due to two factors: I like green and I like painting metallics. I was partly inspired by Darren Latham's Silver Skulls as well, from which I took the Leadbelcher and Nuln oil for the armour, as well as some ideas for markings. The green is Skarsnik Green and I think the paleness contrasts well with the metalics. Weapon casings are naturally the classic red from older editions.

Intercessor

I've painted them to my Good Enough™ standard but will eventually paint on the company markings, which will be on one of the knee pads and for primaris, the circular detail on their backpack. I should also really drill the barrels, although this feels me with dread as lining the drill up perfectly is finicky. I have also just realised, as I write, that I forgot to add snow. My friends have standardised their basing schemes to tie our disparate armies together and that includes snow. Curses! A task for another day.

I will be away for the next three weeks without access to minis and computer both so I won't be posting anything hobby related. I might post a ramble or some photos of my time in Wales but I won't make any promises 😄

Dead but not Forgotten ...

Two whole weeks since my last post! In fairness, last week was somewhat hectic but I can't make the same excuse for this week, alas! Anyway, on to the task at hand:

Northstar Shadow Knight, Diehard Wolf Familiar & Heartbreaker Skeleton Champion

An eclectic selection of undeads this time, hopefully unified somewhat by the basing. The flowers and tufts are from Warpainter Scenics; the individual 'blobs', for want of a better term, are slightly too big for 25mm bases so I've ended up halving them and gluing 'em down as semi-circles. Not sure if it makes the base too busy but its a faff portioning them further. 

ROSD07 - Shadow Knight

Rather chuffed with this one as I followed an excellent tutorial from Gardens of Hecate on painting GW's spooky ghosts (n.b. I used all Citadel paints). This is my first real attempt at highlighting and whilst it's unrefined in many places, it's Good Enough™. I have a copy of Rangers of Shadowdeep, the range he's from, and should really get round to playing it. 

 

ROSD07 - Shadow Knight

I painted it sometime last year but have only just based it on mdf, during which I'd forgotten whether or not I wash Agrellan Badland with Agrax Earthshade. Evidently I do not as it's come out darker than usual. At least I don't use impenetrable jargon to name things, ehh 😉

Diehard Miniatures Wolf Familiar

A kickstarter miniature this one. Not much to say about this undead doggo. I slapped the Skeleton Horde on perhaps but I like my skeletons to look freshly exhumed. I've kept the integral base as it's nice and round but it has made basing interesting. He's basically sitting in the shrub I've artfully obscured in the above pic; I like to think he still has the oblivious attitude some dogs exhibit even in the next life.

Heartbreaker Skeleton Champion

A nice, classic miniature here from Phil Lewis. Look at the size of that there Claymore! I enjoyed painting up the armour (metallics have always been a favourite) and the many dinks it's taken before the occupants demise.