Chaos Space Marines
The first miniatures I decided to tackle from the Dark Vengeance box set were the Chaos Space Marines. (these are the first Chaos Space Marines I have ever painted)
I have been painting them (when I can) over the past week and a half, and I am pretty happy with the results I have been getting. (The painting is not finished yet, I still need to paint the cloaks, fur, flesh, and other details)
I started by priming the miniatures with Tamyia Grey Primer, then base coating them with Tamyia Flat Red.
The next step was to paint all of the Gold trim. This was done with Citadel Brass Scorpion.
Once all of the trim was painted I used a was of Citadel Agrax Earthshade over the entire model.
Once the wash was dry, i painted over all of the red areas with Citade Mephiston Red. This was then highlighted with Citadel Evil Sunz Scarlet.
To highlight the Gold trim, I used Citadel Sycorax Bronze.
The bone teeth, and horns were basecoated with Citadel Rakarth Flesh, washed with Agrax Earthshade, and highlighted again with Rakarth Flesh.
For the weapons I am using a combination of Mephiston Red and Leadbelcher, with a wash of Agrax Earthshade. I will be highlighting the weapons with Evil Sunz Scarlet and Runefang Steel. (I may also add a wash of Nuln Oil to the weapons depending how they look once they are highlighted)
When I started painting the Chaos Army, the first Miniature that I began painting was the Hellbrute.
He is a little bit behind the Chaos Space Marines now in terms of the painting, but I will get back onto him soon. I just have one more model to get painted first...... A Helldrake.
I won't be using this model in any games right away (will need to practice a bit with the basic set first) But I just could not help myself when I was in my local Games Workshop store last week. I have been having so much fun painting the CSM's that I wanted to do even more. I have worked out a 1000 point Chaos army for when we expand our games and the Helldrake is one of the units, so I thought why not get one and get it painted.
You can see int the photo above that this is the model with just the Tamyia Flat Red basecoat, and the Brass Scorpion trim. I have painted most of the trim on the model in three days (I still have half of the main body to paint and the four large wings)
Once the trim is complete I will paint the bone sections with Rakarth Flesh, and the metal with Leadbelcher, then wash the entire model with Agrax Earthshade.
My First Finecast.... (or Failcast)
The final model in my painting queue for Chaos is a Finecast Chaos Sorcerer.
This is my first Finecast miniature and I kind of went in to it expecting it to be a bit disappointing (thus I was not disappointed when I saw all of the problems with the miniature)
Everywhere you look on this model there are problems. Form the rivets that are actually pinholes due to bubbles, to the missing section of cloak and helmet.
Unfortunately, for now at least, there is no other choice than to accept that Finecast just is not that FINE, and move on. There are some more models that I want to add to my armies that are only available in finecast.
So that's it really. I still have to paint all of the Chaos Cultists, and Dark Angels (I have them basecoated already)
Hopefully I will have the CSM and Hellbrute finished for my next post, and the Helldrake all together and ready for detailing.
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