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I hate text tutorials as much as you, but I didn't take any pictures while I was building. I was asked how I built this in my Showcase thread, so I'm cross-posting this over here. This is my Sanguinor, inspired by the Harbinger of Menoth, 40Ked up a bit.



The base is the Wyrd Miniature Apparitions pinned in the best formation I could manage to the base. They are based black and given two or three levels of edge highlighting in grey with a Badab Black wash to tone it back down. The mud on the base is an artists paste that I mixed different browns over and then gave a layer of 'Ard Coat to make it look wet.

The figure himself is mostly a kitbash: Sanguinary Guard legs, swords and torso from the new Grey Knights (there is a torso that says "Avenging Angel," how could I resist), the head is from one of the Dark Angel sets, and the wings are from the Dark Eldar Scourges.

The swords and hands all took some cutting apart and repositioning to get the angles they are at, which was a pain given the small surfaces I was trying to glue together. For the head I clipped the front of the helmet off and dug more out with a hobby knife, I then pressed greenstuff into the cavity and smoothed it, blending it up to the edges of the hood. Then paint the inside black, use a lighter color (I used Dheneb Stone with a delvan Mud wash) for the outside of the hood to increase the contrast and make the black look deeper. (I saw this used before, but I don't remember who I stole the idea from)

I also cut the "box" off the back of the torso where the backpack is usually mounted, as I wanted the wings to look more organic to the character. The Scourge wings actually fit the curve of the back remarkably well, you just have the issue again of a large piece with a small connection. One of them is pinned (it kept falling off) and the other one should be, but it was staying in place and I was sufficiently aggravated by the other that I left it be.

For painting, I primed him black and gave him a solid coat of Vallejo Game color (VGC) Hammered Copper and a wash of Delvan Mud. The verdigris is a wash consisting of 1:1 GW Enchanted Blue and Knarloc Green, a drop or two of Future Floor Polish and enough water to get it nice and thin (I tested it on a spare model I had until I was happy with the consistancy). Do bits at a time so you can soak the wash back off the model with a damp brush where you want the metal to show through more, if you let it dry it becomes hard to reapply the metal and have it blend in to the verdigris well. I got a lot of inspiration from this website. The wings were blended from GW Dheneb Stone near the body to VGC Bleached Bone, given several coatings of Delvan Mud (darkening near the body) and edged in places with the Bleached Bone.

He is pinned to the back of one of the Apparitions through his heel. The chain is just from a craft store, glued to the Apparitions hands and draped over the model. I gave the chain a thin layer of superglue to hold it in place (blow on it to pop the bubbles filling the links) and then layered it with Tamiya's Smoke and GW Delvan Mud and Ogryn Flesh.

Great tutorial, amazing mini. Thanks for posting!

That's a great mini. Excellent conversion work.

This is awesome! I would love to field it in my Dark Angels army.