Horus Heresy - Ultramarine Captain - WIP #2

Once again work has left me with little time to do anything. However that little hump should now, with any luck, be over.

 

As such, there won't be any blurb attached to this post, rather I'll just show some updated pictures of the Ultramarine Captain. Not much more to do now, finishing up of the cloak and sword and basing to be done.

 

 

Horus Heresy - Ultramarine Captain - WIP #1

Work decided to get the better of me last week and forced me to mess around with my usual schedule, hence the lack of update. Since then however I have been back on the bandwagon and thus we have todays effort.

I last did anything on this guy back in June. To all intent and purpose he is undergoing a complete repaint so I have labelled this post WIP #1.

So far the armour has been repainted and the gold is beginning to get basecoats and shading. The armour is painted with several blue's from the Scale 75 Sky and Ice set. However I have found that, as these paints are quite translucent it is best to work them over a GW Basecoat paint. In this case I used Kantor Blue.

The colours will be pretty much replicated as they stand on other areas, so the cape will be red with a white inner, whilst the pad rim, helmet crest and kneepad will be white.

I added a transfer to the shoulder pad prior to damaging up the pad. I am guessing that I didn't leave enough time for the varnish to dry before applying it as the Micro Set dissolved the varnish I had painted on (I didn't bother to replace it). It also damaged the paintwork so I need to retouch the highlights here as well.

This was also my third attempt at adding a transfer as I wasn't sure where to add cuts to aid it going on smoothly.

The metal areas are so far basecoated with Leadbelcher and washed with Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade.

The battle damage was applied with a sponge, starting with Rhinox Hide and followed up with Leadbelcher and Ironbreaker. I used Vallejo Metallic Medium to paint the brightest chips.

These areas were also glazed with thinned Steel Legion Drab, with multiple glazes being added to the lower greaves and feet to simulate dust and earth.

Feeling Blue...

Originally I was going to put up a consolidated post of things I have been doing, but as I sit here waiting for my SharePoint system scopes to update I've decided to spread out the load a little and hopefully provide a short series of semi-regular (as in more than one a month,) progress posts. I also really need to complete some models as, as yet, I've not shown anything completed.

Starting off this mini series I had intended to show a few shots of some epic odds and sods. Along with both Rictus and Maelstrom I've been buying up a fair few chunks of stuff off of eBay with a view towards doing a pre-heresy themed force.

So I'd started on a quick test squad for a Tactical Detachment, painting consisting of a very simple basecoat, followed by three quick drybrushes and completed with a wash to tie it all together. Individual details have then been filled in. These I'll show in a future post, mostly because I'm not happy with what I've done so far.

No Epic Army is complete without it's 40k counterpart, so a few hurried brush strokes later and out popped this work in progress:

In both cases the blue has been based around the following scheme:

• Kantor Blue Base
• Highlight Ultramarine Blue
• Highlight Ultramarine Blue 1:1 Fenrisian Grey
• Highlight Fenrisian Grey

All have been washed with a Kantor Blue 1:1 Abbadon Black mix (thinned with water & glaze medium). The Epic stuff was washed after the drybrushing whereas the Forgeworld chap was washed prior to the highlighting.

In the midst of painting I've also gotten my hands on some Vallejo matte medium as well, which I've been playing around with on the Captains armour, net result is some moderately smooth blends with only a couple of different highlight mixes applied.

I'm also trying a new white light in my painting lamp...

Next up... Well could be anything really, but I'm hoping on either the Nightlord Marine, Trollslayer or some finished Sedition Wars Samaritans... Or possibly practicing to take better photos...