Servitors of the Unnamed Chapter - Space Marines, Gene-Stealers, Necrons

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**Oldmanronald**

Intercessor

Intercessor – Right View

This again is too close up and shows granularity that is not noticeable on the actual model.

Intercessor – Right Rear View

Intercessor – Front View

Intercessor - Rear View

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The Red Spot

Red Spot at Feet of Aggressor Squad

This picture was posted before but I am reposting it because of the red spot on the pavement. Notice the red spot on the mat, just under the aggressor on the right. Look at the spot itself. It is yellow white in the middle. Then it has a red splat surrounding the white spot. Even more interesting, it has a third region where the red is blended with the gray pavement. This color arrangement makes this seem as if this particular part of the pavement is still hot, either from an incoming round or lava seeping up from the depths of an unstable planet or moon. This spot give real interest and depth to this urban map.

While I was experimenting with pigments on the flamers, I used a little rust red and a drop of it got on the base. Notice the red spot on the base below. The spot is red in the middle but the pigment spread into the gray base material so that it also looks like the pavement is heated.

Base with Red Dot

I am working on some new models, Hellblasters. I am going to experiment with molten areas of their bases using my red and white pigments. This could be fun. I will post the results in several weeks.

Base with a Red Molten Spot

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Intercessor - ACE

Just a good old Intercessor with the name ACE on his boltgun.

Ace the Intercessor – Right Side View

The gunmetal blue and the bronze/brass look good together.

Ace the Intercessor - Left Side View

This base and the model capture the effect that I want. The terrain is rough and dirty and his boots are rough and dirty. This models reflect my fluff, a no-name space marine chapter created to perform for the Lord High Admiral the grubby little missions that other space marine chapter’s refuse to take. When the Master of the Administratum for the Imperium requested that certain other chapters provide space marines for this unnamed chapter, the other chapter masters took advantage of this to get rid of their troublemakers, hot-dogs, and embarrassments. These soldiers are not Adeptus Custodes, golden soldiers to guard the Emperor’s Golden Throne. Instead, these are the soldiers that are called to clean up an Ork or Demon infestation on a space station or abandoned space cruiser lost in the Dead Zone.

Ace the Intercessor - Front View

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Another Intercessor

Intercessor – Front View

Intercessor – Right Side View

Intercessor – Rear View

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Intercessor with Auxiliary Grenade Launcher

Grenadier – Front View

Grenadier – Rear View

Grenadier – Left Side View

Grenadier – Right Side View

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Second Intercessor Sergeant - Cups

Intercessor Sergeant – Front View

He must be a sergeant. He has the key.

Intercessor Sergeant – Left Side View

Intercessor Sergeant – Right Side View

Now you know his name – Sergeant Cups because his bolt rifle has the name CUPS on it.

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Intercessor Mangled Face

Mangle Face – Front View

Mangle Face – Rear View

Mangle Face – Right View

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Second Intercessor with Auxiliary Grenade Launcher

Grenadier – Front View

Grenadier – Right Side View

Grenadier – Right Rear View

Grenadier – Rear View

Grenadier - Left Front View

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Last Intercessor

The Last Intercessor – Front View

The Last Intercessor – Right Side View

The Last Intercessor – Rear View

The Last Intercessor – Left Side View

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The Apothecary

I have experimented with an apothecary. Although a primaris apothecary may be a better fighter and has an additional wound, the standard apothecary may a better deal. Both have the Narthecium that allows them to heal but the standard apothecary is cheaper. I built a standard apothecary out of some spare parts I had laying around.

The Apothecary – Front View

The head is a squire’s head from a spruce of the old Bretonnia knights.

The Apothecary – Rear View

The Apothecary – Right Front View

The Apothecary – Right View

Painting mistakes show up in the close-up view.

The biggest problem with this model is that he looks like a dwarf when he is next to a Primaris space marine model.

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The Lieutenant

The Lieutenant – Front View

The Lieutenant has tactical precision so you can re-roll rolls of one for related units that are within 6” of the lieutenant. The primaris lieutenant has the same ability, is a more robust and deadly fighter, but is 20 points more. Since Games Workshop sells a primaris lieutenant but not a regular lieutenant, I made one from a company champion, some Dark Angel’s parts, and a head from an old Bretonnia squire.

The Lieutenant – Left Side View

The pointing finger is always a great. It may be the best single bit for a model and always make the model look great.

The Lieutenant – Rear View

The Lieutenant – Right Side View

The strap for the bolter was made of floral wire.

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The Primaris Master (or Captain)

This model is the Primaris Captain if you are a space marine or a Primaris Master if you are a Dark Angel. Regardless, this is a great looking model. I really like the pointing finger.

The Primaris Master – Left Front View

The Primaris Master –Front View

The Primaris Master –Rear View

I replaced his cape with one I made from green stuff and floral wire.

The Primaris Master – Left Rear View

This one show some details of the cape

The Primaris Master – Left Side View

He may be a captain or a master but he has the same grubby appearance as my other space marines.

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Lava on the Base

A few posts ago I mentioned the red spot on my gaming mat that had the appearance of heated rock or lava. I noted a red spot on one of my bases and considered playing with such spot to give my bases a look of lava. I did so with two of my models, the primaris captain or master and one of the intercessors. Below is the intercessor.

Intercessor on Lava Base – Front View

I used a combination of washes and pigments to create the red spots on the bases.

Intercessor on Lava Base – Left Side View

Intercessor on Lava Base –Right Side View

This was a fun effect but I was not wowed by the results. This effect may be more impressive on a display board or panoramic background. I will keep the technique in mind but will probably not use it regularly on my bases.

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The Primaris Master (or Captain) with Lava

In the pictures below, I played with placing a red lava spot on the base of my Primaris Master (or for those familiar with lesser chapters than Dark Angels, a Primaris Captain.) The color is interesting but not great. It may work better if I had not gone back and put a final coat of bright red around the white. Again, I was not wowed with the results but may still play around with it.

Primaris Master with Lava Base – Right Side View

Primaris Master with Lava Base – Front View

The bright red looks more like blood than lava.

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Azrael – The Suffering Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels – The Keeper of the Truth

I have always enjoyed the Dark Angels, both the models and the fluff. Religious mysticism, especially Jewish and Christian intrigues me. The Dark Angels are the most religious faction of the 40K universe with its Chaplains and Interrogator-Chaplains, its concern with religious themes such as the Fallen, heresy, redemption, and forgiveness or the withholding of forgiveness, and the rich use of religiously significant names. El is a name for God and names ending in El, such as Azrael, Ezekiel, and Sammael signify a relationship with God. Azrael is the name of Angel of Death in the Hebrew Bible and means help of God. Samael is an archangel who is an accuser, seducer, and destroyer, whose name means venom or poison of God. Ezekiel is a Bible prophet who has one of the strangest visions of heaven in Bible and whose name means strength of God or God will strengthen.

As I built my Azrael, I wanted my Azrael to look like this picture in the Dark Angels Codex.

Picture of Azrael Found in the Dark Angels Codex.

I was unhappy with the metal Azrael and felt that it lacked the power and authority of the above picture. Below is a picture of the metal Azrael painted by one of Games Workshop’s master painters. He looks evil and angry but lack the authority shown in the above picture.

Picture of Metal Azrael

Although I already own a metal Azrael, I decided to use a primaris captain to make Azrael rather than to use the metal model. I am pleased with the results but this new Azrael turned out much different than I expected.

New Azrael - The Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels

Notice that there is almost an anguish in his face. He appears as the suffering servant, a martyr for Imperium of Man, not a martyr for own his death but for his willingness to bear those burdens of command even over the most condemned and chosen servants of the Imperium, even the Dark Angels themselves.

New Azrael and the Relic Bearer with the Lion’s Helm

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The Face of Azrael

One question is why the head of my Azrael appears to be anguished even though the identical head on my primaris captain does not? Compare the two pictures below.

The Head of New Azrael

The Head of the Primaris Captain

Why the difference? There are at least three possible reasons.

1) My Painting

I glued the head on the captain and then painted the face. This is how I usually paint my models. The advantage is that the head is on a solid mount so I don’t have to figure out how to hold the head in place. Also, the head is painted with the rest of the model so it has the same shadows and the same ambiance. The disadvantage, however, it that the model's body blocks my brush so that I cannot place my brush to get to the face from certain angles.

For Azrael and my latest models, I started painting the heads separately and then glued them to the model.

The advantage of painting the head before mounting it on the model is that I can get to each head from almost any angle and can really focus on certain details. In the picture of the captain and Azrael above, compare the eyes and the beard. The captain’s eyes are too big. It is almost impossible not to paint the eyes too big but with the head unmounted, I can paint from underneath the head to put skin tones around the eyes to shrink them down to the proper size and shape. The beard, or more accurately, the five o-clock shadow, was easier to paint in the free head than the mounted head. So was the mouth which means that I was able to bring out details in the lower portions of the face that really give the face its expression.

Heads Painted on the Spruce – the Azrael Head is the Un-spruced Head with a Notched Neck

2) The mounting

For most space marine models, the head has a rounded neck so the face can be placed looking in any reasonable direction. For the primaris captain model, however, the neck is notched so that it only faces one way when mounted. When I mounted the head on the captain, I placed it so that the notch fit and the head was lower in the model. This covered up the expressive neck and lower mouth and jaw line.

For Azrael, I placed the head facing forward. I did not trim the notch so the head was held up higher on the model. To see this, compare the head on the right side view of Azrael with the right side view of the Captain’s face.

Azrael – Right Side View

Captain – Right Side View of the Face

Notice how much lower the face is in the Captain than in Azrael and how the anguished mouth is hidden. Also note with the head higher, Azrael has a much longer neck which gives him an El Greco type appearance. The elongated neck on Azrael makes him appear mystic and combined with his expressive mouth, gives an expression of passionate suffering.

3) The Pose

The Captain is posed with the pointing finger. With the strong pointing finger, the Captain appears to be barking out an order. His mouth is open to project his orders.
Azrael’s pose is more serene. He appears to be quietly observing the battlefield so his open mouth become a look of anguish rather than yelling out a command.

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More Views of the New Azrael – The Suffering Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels – The Keeper of the Truth

New Azrael with Relic Bearer with Lion Helm

I have to figure out what I did to get the blue effect on the blade of the Sword of Secrets and see if I can expand it on other blades.

New Azrael – Right Side View Showing Details of the Lion’s Wrath

I had to do some real cutting to put together the Lion’s Wrath, Azrael’s Combi-Plasma Gun.

New Azrael- Left Side View

To mount the skull on his backpack, I had to drill a hole on the backpack to mount the skull in rather than try to shape the skull to the backpack. The skull was too small to carve into shape.

New Azrael – Back View

I left the back of the banner somewhat sloppy. I am not sure I want to fix it or not.

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The Relic Bearer with Lion Helm

A number of years ago, I bought the metal Azrael which came with a Relic Bearer and Lion’s Helm. Although I have not painted up the metal Azrael, I painted up the Relic Bearer.

New Azrael with Relic Bearer with Lion Helm

Relic Bearer with Lion Helm

You can see why I am not a big fan of metal models. It is already chipped. I may have to cover these models with varnish to preserve them. I have never done that with my models but it may be time.

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The Azrael Banner

Below is a picture of the Azrael Banner that comes with the metal Azrael.

Picture of Painted Up Azrael Banner

Several years ago, I painted this banner up and mounted it on a bike. To be honest, I hated it and stripped it down. I still have the banner and have it drilled out so it could have been mounted on the pole behind my Azrael. Instead, I decided instead to make a new banner and use my own decals.

Green Stuff Banner

The cross bar is made of some plastic tubing that I have. The upright pole is piano wire that I bent into shape so it is fitted into the base. See picture below which shows how I fitted it although it is for another model not for this banner.

Fitted Piano Wire

The big King Kong skull is from the Citadel Skulls kit which contains all sorts of skulls. Most of the skulls I have on my bases and the skulls on Azrael’s backpack are from this kit. This is a great kit for modifying your models if you are into skulls.

New Azrael Banner – Front View

New Azrael Banner – Side View

This picture also shows a nice view of the back of Azrael’s robe and the big King Kong like skull.

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New Azrael and Friends

Here is a picture of my new Azrael posing with two squads of Hellblasters. One is armed with heavy plasma incinerators, the other with standard plasma incinerators. I will be experimenting with both.

Azrael and His Friends

Azrael and Hellblaster Squad with Heavy Incinerators

I don’t have a picture of Azrael with just the standard incinerators. I take a lot of pictures and delete those that are out of focus. With these close-ups, I always have to delete about a fourth of the pictures. I probably deleted the pictures of Azrael with just the standard incinerator Hellblasters.

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Primaris Hellblasters

I have just painted up two hellblaster squads. One is armed with heavy plasma incinerators. The other is with standard plasma incinerators. I made none with the assault plasma incinerators. I plan to play them and see which ones I like better. I suspect that both are useful.

Hellblaster Squad with Heavy Incinerators

I tried several new techniques. I painted the heads separate from the bodies and generally like the results. I painted the plasma incinerators with metallic blue with the corrugated section with white overlaid with fluorescent blue to create a glow. I also tried highlighting portions of the armor with the fluorescent blue to try to give the effect of glowing light. It isn’t perfect and may have looked better with a fluorescent green.

Hellblaster Squad with Standard Incinerators

I put pigments on the base and the lower legs of the primaris models to give the models a grubbier appearance. I had fun with the decals which I often painted over with a wash.

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Hellblaster with Heavy Incinerator – False Eye

If you look closely at this model, you will see that he has an artificial eye. The front view shows the decal on his tasset, the armor plate protecting his upper legs. I painted a wash over the decal to give it a more worn look. I added white highlights covered with a fluorescent green and blue washes on the bevor (neck piece armor), pauldron (shoulder plate) and the upper arm to represent the reflected glow from the plasma incinerator.

False Eye – Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Front View

False Eye – Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Lower Front View

This view better shows the scar on his face over the artificial eye. Presumably, this scar is from the same wound that gauged out his real eye.

The hose is shown below in these right side views.

False Eye – Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Side View

His hair is a mixture of dull orange and yellow paints and so he ended up a ginger or redhead, perhaps as a tribute to my wife who is also a redhead. It really isn’t much of a tribute since she is totally indifferent to miniatures and war gaming.

False Eye – Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Side View

I have a number of duplicate pictures of this model. This is because I take my picture of my finished models outside. I started taking pictures of him and a storm came up and threatened to knock down my panorama so I stopped. When I took my pictures again, I forgot that I already had pictures of this model.

False Eye – Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Side View

This view shows the wash on over the flowered skull on the shoulder plate. Also, the upper flowers on the skull have a wash of fluorescent magenta paint.

False Eye – Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Rear View

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Hellblaster with Heavy Incinerator – The Sergeant

I took a lot of pictures of this Hellblaster but that is okay since I really like how he turned out. He is the sergeant. How do you know he is the sergeant? It is pretty subtle but look at the small skull icon on the lower edge of his pauldron (shoulder plate) and the icon in the box hanging from his belt.

Primaris Hellblaster Sergeant with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Front View

Primaris Hellblaster Sergeant with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Side View

This view shows the wash on over the flowered skull on the shoulder plate. Also, the upper flowers on the skull have a wash of fluorescent magenta paint.

Primaris Hellblaster Sergeant with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Rear View

Primaris Hellblaster Sergeant with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Rear View

Primaris Hellblaster Sergeant with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Front View

Note the one horn cyclops skull on his base. It appears that the skull has one horn because the other broke off but the skull has one eye socket.

Primaris Hellblaster Sergeant with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

This has a good view of face. I really like the left eye. Not all the eyes on my latest models look this good so it has to be a little bit of dumb luck.

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Hellblaster with Heavy Incinerator – Another Redhead

One of the biggest challenges of painting faces are the eyes. The problem is that when we look at another human being, we look at the face and in particular the eyes. But eyes are really small. If you compare a head to the rest of the figure, the head is about 1/7 or 1/6 the body length. Except for space marines, the head is about 1/3 the body width. The head for a space marine is thinner in proportion to the body. This means from any view the head is about 1/20 the size of the body. The eyes are even smaller. For the average space, each eye is about 1/10 the height of the head and about ¼ the width of the head. So the eye is about 1/40 the size of the head. Doing the math, each eye is about 1/800 of the size of the body and that is figuring it out in only two dimensions. If calculated in three dimensions, the eyes are even more proportionally smaller.

Look at any of these pictures I have posted lately. Each eye is barely a dot size, the size of the tip of one of the fingers, the size of a single grain of ballast on the base. If I put a black dot any place on the model other than the face, it would disappear. In fact if you look at some of the pictures, there are many with little blips of misplaced paint. Such mistakes are barely noticeable but these blips are bigger than the eyes. I have found that to paint the pupil of the eye I have to have a tiny drop of paint on a single hair of my paintbrush. In fact, for painting eyes, it doesn’t matter if my brush is a 2 as opposed to a 000 in size since I am only painting with the longest single strain. I don’t know if I got the eye right until I either use a magnifying glass or take a picture and blow it up. I cannot see the error on the model at arms distance. Still, if the eye is not right, the model as not quite right.

This next model has a bad eye. The model has a tip of dark on the eyebrow and the eyes are too opened, making him looked weird and startled looking. On the table top, he looks okay. Even if you are viewing this picture on a smartphone, it may look okay. On a large screen, however, the eyes are wrong.

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Front View

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Side View

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Rear View

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Rear View

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Hellblaster with Heavy Incinerator – Another Baldy

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

In this one, the reflection of the plasma incinerator is a little more subtle than some of my other hellblasters.

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Rear View

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Rear View

It is hard not to have a kink where the two parts of the hose join each other. I should have put some green stuff on the kink and smoothed it out.

Primaris Hellblaster with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

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Hellblaster with Heavy Incinerator – Mohawk

Primaris Hellblaster in Mohawk with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Front View

The Devil decal on the tasset, the armor plate protecting his upper legs, has gaps. I should fix this. I can go and paint in some browns to cover the gaps.

Primaris Hellblaster in Mohawk with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Front View

Primaris Hellblaster in Mohawk with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

Primaris Hellblaster in Mohawk with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Rear View

Primaris Hellblaster in Mohawk with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Left Side View

Primaris Hellblaster in Mohawk with Heavy Plasma Incinerator – Right Rear View

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Work in Progress - Assassins

I have been painting camouflage space marines or equivalents for years. I am getting a little tired of it and have been trying to branch out. I have started to work on assassins. I still use the camouflage pattern as a base so that they look like they are part of my army. Still, they are not space marines and they are a nice break. Below are some that I am working on.

Four Assassins

Culexus Assassin

I haven’t gotten too far on my culexus assassin, just the basic camouflage pattern and a base coat of tin bits which will undercoat my metals. The tin bits gives depth to the steel, silver, gold, or bronze that will be painted over it.

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Work in Progress – Eversor Assassin

This Eversor Assassin is further along than some of my other assassins. Most of the basic colors are in place. I need to add highlights to the colors and some pigments to the base to make the model really pop.

Eversor Assassin

This closeup makes his oversize head look even bigger.

Eversor Assassin - Closeup

Eversor Assassin – Happy in His Work

Last week my wife dragged me to see the ballet Swan Lake. We watched a bunch of men dressed in tights prance around. If you look at the assassins, you'll notice that they're running around in tights. I thought that the ballet would be improved if they put some skulls on the men’s heads, gave them some executioner pistols and neuro-gantlets, and let them take out Von Rothbart, the evil and powerful sorcerer, in proper style. Of course, it would be even better if Rothbart had been dressed as a Demon Prince rather than as a ugly crow.

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Adeptus Custodes Shield Captains on Dawneagle Jetbikes

As I wrote in my last post, I am getting tired of painting space marines in camouflage. So I am painting up some Vertus Praetors as Shield Captains on Jetbikes. Below are three unpainted jetbikes. Notice that I haven’t added their heads. They are pretty much stock except I have mounted the helmets on the bikes so that they are accessible to the Shield Captains although all three will be bareheaded. I have adjusted the shoulders so that all the interceptor lances are all level. I also cut out the plastic shafts of the interceptor lances and replaced them with heavy piano wire. This last step will make them less brittle for transport.

Three Unfinished Shield Captains on Dawneagle Jetbikes

As an acknowledgement to the camouflage of my army, I have painted a small portion of these models in camouflage. The bulk of the model, however, will be gold. I am using a more intense and dark gold paint than the light gold paint used by Games Workshop. After undercoating all the metal areas with tin bits, I used a Vallejo Gold as my base gold color. I mixed the gold with MSP high intensity Core Color purple for my shadows and with MSP high intensity Core Color for the highlights.

Bottles with Gold Paint and MSP Core purple and yellow
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The picture below shows my wet pallet with the gold mixes. The standard base gold is in the middle, the mixture of core purple and gold is on the left with a blob of core purple underneath and the mixture of gold and core yellow is on the right with the core yellow just above it. The blue stain in the middle bottom is just a dried out stain that had no effect.

Gold Shade, Base, and Highlight on Pallet

The gold was difficult to paint. It usually took several coats to cover the surface. I am painting the model from front to back. In the picture below, the first two panels and the eagle wing and heads have several coats, the middle panel two coats, and the last two panels have one coat. The little recess between the panels have the purple gold mix. Most of the rest of the model has the camouflage or tin bits painted, at least in the expected shadow areas.

Gold Painting on Cowl of Dawneagle JetBike

The feathers on the eagle have a mixture of the purple gold and base gold mix interwoven to bring out the shape of the feathers. The top of the eagles head, the tops of the wings, and the first two panels also have some of the yellow gold to bring them out.

Dawneagle Jetbike with Gold Paint – Left Side View

Dawneagle Jetbike with Gold Paint – Right Side View

Dawneagle Jetbike with Gold Paint – Front View

I have only painted one bike so far with the gold paint since it takes a while to do the paint job. For the gold on this picture, there are both natural shadows and painted on shadows. Without the painted on shadow, this model would appear dull and flat.

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Shield Captain on Dawneagle Bike – Model in Progress

I have been working on this bike. Although I built three bikes and am planning on deploying it as a three bike squad, I am painting up one bike at a time. Since I have never painted an Adepus Custodes model, I am experimenting with my metals and other effects. I had fun painting the gold. Now I am working on Vallejo Model Color gunmetal blue with gold trim for the spear. I also used Vallejo gunmetal gray and oily steel for some details. For highlights on the gunmetal blue, I mixed the blue with silver. The effect is subtle but rounds out the lance handle.

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Close up of Details

I also used gunmetal gray, oily steel, and silver on some of the pipes and other non-gold metals.

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Right Side View

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Right Rear View

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Under View

This view shows the underside of the jetbike. The underside is painted with Vallejo Game Color Tinny Tin, dry brushed with gold and other metallic colors. It gives the underside both a shaded look and an engine grim look.

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Left Side View

The jewels are painted in red with the highlights being white overlaid with fluorescent magenta mixed with a little fluorescent orange.

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Close-up of Shoulder

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Front View

This view shows the hurricane bolter. They are painted in gunmetal blue with a mixture of silver and gunmetal blue for the highlights.

Vertus Praetor with Interceptor Lance – Right Front View