Hobby Recap - April

Space Marines!

 In April I put the 3d printing fiasco behind me and got a fair bit of painting done. After struggling to find motivation I took up an offer to paint at a friends place while hanging out. This proved to be a good strategy and I cleared out a fair bit of the 40k backlog.

The first thing I got painted was a unit of 5 sternguard (just in time for them to be moved into legends). I’m quite happy with how they turned out. I decided to go with the traditional white helmets and shoulder trim. The vanguard veterans I painted a few years back had gold helmets and silver trim. I’ll probably repaint them at some point to match if I have the time. I might post a painting tutorial for ultramarines at some point. I’ve switched to airbrush for the armour but I’ll cover my past methods as well.

Continuing with the first company theme I also painted 5 terminators and the captain from the old start collecting set. Like with the sternguard my other terminators were long ago painted silver in an effort to “change it up” but my tastes have changed. The sword on the captain was done by layering progressively lighter shades of red but I honestly can’t recall the exact method.

Terminators converted from dark vengeance set

Half-based captain

The next weekend I had the idea to paint three vehicles at once. I thought I should use my painting motivation while I still had it. The drop pod and land raider had been sitting unpainted since I bought them in 2019. I dreaded painting the vast swaths of blue for months until I realized I could use an airbrush. I also finished a predator I had bought from Craigslist the week before. I’m fairly happy with them but I skipped a few details like searchlights and the guy poking out of the land raider.

Predator destructor 

The hazard stripes are worth the effort

Land raider with unpainted searchlights

Some loose ends were tied up with 6 intercessors and a gravis captain. These are painted as red scorpions (my friends tell me they look neither red nor like scorpions). I got these from the dark imperium set I bought a while back. I didn’t want to mix firstborn and primaris in my army so I’m painting the them as a different chapter. Before you ask, there is no way I’m free handing the damn scorpion on their shoulders. 

Gravis captain leads the charge

Anyway, I only have one more recap to do before I move on to current stuff.

Thanks for reading - Parker

Group shot