[Alpha Legion] Brothers of the Night

[Panda_]

This will be my Work In Process thread for the =][= Call of Chaos V =][=

 

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Imperial Scum, hear me!

I Panda_ hereby swear my forces, my dedication and my very soul to Eternal Vengeance !

 

I swear to those who listen that I will paint and present 1 squad of 19 cultists, 1 Sorcerer, 1 squad of Chaos Space Marine of the Alpha Legion.

 

I also swear to provide a project update, at least twice per month.

You can follow my progress HERE.

 

- Panda_

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[Panda_]

Let's rock together the imperial scum !

I got Vengeance and the first figurines to be painted are undercoated. Most of them are going to wear different colors from the Legion one (yes, they are supposed to belong to the 'local' population, where the battlefield is taking place).

This is the paints I gathered (most came from the old starter box). As my paint box is too small, some colors won't fit. Thus I underlined the ones supposed to be the most relevant for a decent paint.

- Chaos Black

- Necron Abyss (twice, I wanted to do Nigh Legion)

- Skull White

- Regal Blue

- Enchanted Blue

- Goblin Green

- Sotek Green

- Leviathan Purple

- Mithril Silver

- Bleached Bone

- Sunburst Yellow

- Bronzed Flesh

- Blood Red

- Snakebite Leather

- Liche Purple

- Shining Gold

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Seems like this post has gone into the wind !

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As cultist's clothes uses different colors, I'm testing a few colors on the cultists.

On the first one, I've used a single layer of Necron Abyss. However, the paint is thick (although I mixed water), perhaps because it's going old.

This blue was my base NL paint. With the Leviathan Purple wash, it was the perfect dark (with reflects !) for my old Night Lords. Perhaps, this is too dark for AL. Still, I'm going to try it with a green/cyan wash, once I've checked on the color wheel.

Then, as I've noticed Bronzed Flesh (hands of the first model) were really close to leather, I've painted a cultist with both colors (Bronzed Flesh and Snakebite Leather). I think I'm going into troubles if I plaint lot's of leather (note for self : Less leather !).

This is the last pic for the update. As Necron Abyss could be too dark, I've buy Sotek Green. Sadly it looks too be too "light". And as you noticed. I'm a bad painter and I prefer yet to paint the dark colors first before giving light to the model.

[lhg033]

i would try and unify the cultists somehow colour wise to show tey belong to the same cult/follow the same god etc. there is nothing to say also that the CSM they are with didnt stir up a rebelion so the cultists could sport (or at least the squad leader) some sort of colour or device to link the to the marines to give a more unfied looking army.

 

i would suggest getting a few more colours for the flesh. as this wil be fairly prominent on the cultists.

 

other than that, not a lot to say yet - cant tell if you've drilled the barrels of the guns. cant see any mould lines....

[Panda_]

Thanks for the input :-)

 

They aren't loyalist. Variety is a tool to be used, especially for Alphas. If the foe think they are civilians, they might not kill them.

 

Kidding aside: Yes, you're right. I'll have to find a theme for most of cultists.

 

Flesh, Skin : Yes, I'm already having difficulties. Bronzed Flesh is too "yellow" to be universal on the cultists. I'll need a few more colors. Do you have suggestions ?

 

I've not drilled anything. I don't own a drill (which makes magnetizing impossible too).

[lhg033]

the flesh 'sets' from the GW painting guides are ok. the flesh one is a bit lighter than the tanned flesh one and may fit what you want.

also a thinned bit of red/purple on the lips and or blue/purple under the eyes makes faces seem a lot more realistic. on the lips, if you do this then a few very faint verticle lines onthe lip it akes it even more detailed. dont have any close photos of this but here's an example - think this followed an old painting faces guide in a WD a few years back. was relatively quick for pretty good results.

for arms you can get away with less detail and dry brushing works well. my only examples aren't board apropriate (orks)

i agree the sotec blue is too light. first blue is nice a dark. civilian clothes under the robes would look good and add the variety back in.

i would suggest a drill as and when you can - you can always go bac and drill the barels on these guys

[Panda_]

the flesh 'sets' from the GW painting guides are ok. the flesh one is a bit lighter than the tanned flesh one and may fit what you want.

Still, I'll need something else. Perhaps using bleached bone for drybrushings (which doesn't seem the best color association) ?

 

also a thinned bit of red/purple on the lips and or blue/purple under the eyes makes faces seem a lot more realistic. on the lips,

I'll definitly do that. Thanks for the tip, I've never painted flesh to this day.

 

i agree the sotec blue is too light. first blue is nice a dark. civilian clothes under the robes would look good and add the variety back in.

I'll try another model with the first blue as the base paint, then mid color Sotek Green (and perhaps highlights with goblin green), before tie all those color together with some green wash.

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Shoting the progress on those 3 figs.

Basically, painting metal parts with Mithril Silver and painting some clothes with Leviathan Purple. That way, they have a few things in common.

Metal doesn't appear on the photo as in reality : It reflects the flashs and the white tissue under the figs. I'm eager to apply a purple wash on the blue or purple clothes.

[lhg033]

i llike the colours though they make me think a bit of genestealer cultists with the blue and purple.

 

will see if i can find the old WD i have with painting faces tut and the painting skin tuts

[lhg033]

got em - they use the old paint range but there is a chart to compare the new/old ranges.

 

wd 350 - eavy metal masterclas on faces (6 page painting article! actually pretty good for the theory)

basic face

base tallarn flesh

wash with ogryn flesh a couple of times

mid tone 1:1 bleached bone/dwarf flesh

highlight bleached bone

 

palid flesh:

base tallarn flesh

mid tone elf flesh

highlight skull white

 

dark tone

base scorched brown/chaos black mix

mid tone scorched brown

highlight scorched brown/graveyard earth

 

eavy metal guide for faces - used this for my guy. took an hour or so, excluding wash drying times

base tallarn flesh

thin wash dark flesh making sure it goes in the recesses (think i did the a couple of times as it was too thin)

wash of scorched brown/chaos black into deeper details

mid tone 2:1:! mix of tallarn flesh/fortress grey/bleached bone to all but recesses

1:1 tallarn flesh/bleached bone

bleached bone highlight of raised areas

bleached bone/regal blue wash around eyes and scab red/bleached bone wash on bottom lip

skull white highlight on prominent areas

 

have a few more but they tend to be similar (WD 310 has a big face feature using a guard model, includes tattoos, burns, scars....)

 

sorry for wall of text but not sure i'm allowed to just scan the pages in and post (mods?)

[Panda_]

It's, okay.

You did enough :tu: I won't buy all of them, but you gave me a nice selection. I'll edit the painting list once I get them (most probably tomorrow).

I've just assembled and primed 5 marines. I'm only missing the sorceror yet. But he is painted, I'll clean him of his foul paints to present him before the community.

Here is the new guys :

Those last 2 are my favorites. I love when they raise their knife to stab their foes :-)

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December Update 1

I've buy a few new paints to help me.

So, I've applied some blue to the marines, you may not notice without zoomin : it's a dark one.


Now, here is the updated cultists. I'll consider them finished if I've not enough time.


And there is new cultists, also considered "finished":

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December Update 2

Now the marines reach the 2nd step :