40k Anniversary model

As some of the gaming world are aware, last year was the anniversary of 40k's launch. I was one of the lucky few in our local store to get the limited Marine that was released as part of the celebration.

He's not quite finished yet, but I ran out of inspiration... I really don't like painting marines; which was a pain to discover part way through painting a marine force!

He's an experiment in using a white undercoat and layer after layer of washes to build up the colours. I wish I'd taken some intermediate photos as well because it's really interesting to see what happens to the colours and model with this approach as it basically highlights itself if you just keep adding layers into the recesses of the model instead of all over.

Red Scorpion Sergeant

As I mentioned yesterday, DakkaDakka had a thread (it may even still be going for all I know) called the Great Marine Swap that allowed people to paint up figures for other people. The other Red Scorpion that I did was a sergeant for someone's Deathwatch squad. All I was asked for was a sergeant armed with a plasma pistol... the rest was up to me to piece together.

In some of the Forge World books, Red Scorpion sergeants could be upgraded to apothecaries, so what could be better than an apothecary power fist?

Red Scorpion Dreadnought

A few years back DakkaDakka, the gaming forum, had a painting thread that allowed people to set up trades of individual space marines, painted in whatever chapter the painter wanted, but equipped however the recipient wanted. This allowed the recipient to build up useful squads, but provided enough flexibility to the painter to have some fun. I did a few of these and had a lot of fun until I ran out of marine parts and didn't fancy buying more boxes. I think the best one I did was for someone who wanted a Forge World Dreadnought, but didn't feel they could do it justice. Sadly as it was a swap, I do not have the original to get better photos :(

At the time, I was painting up a small Red Scorpion strike force thanks to Forge World's amazing figures. I never did get to play with them before selling it on. Still. It was a nice paint scheme to work on and it's really striking on the dreadnought



If you're wondering, the base was purposefully left blank so he could base it to match his own force.