Violent Traitors in Violet - A 6mm Project Begins

I did it again. I started a new system. Legions Imperialis has caught my eye ever since it came out but I had never taken the plunge. There is something appealing to me about looking down at a battlefield with a birds eye view. I feel like a commander, not a warrior in the thick of combat. Sitting in a commander's chair with datascreens and holograms, receiving news from the front. That's the idea anyways. I haven't tested the game out yet. I decided to go with Traitors this time - Emperor's children. My main army in 28mm scale is Ultramarines so a bit of a change was needed. Plus purple is my favorite colour! Also a tip: I don't know if it was chance but my pot of Xerces purple had absolutely crap coverage. More proof that switching to vallejo is the right call

Paints used: screamer pink/macragge blue (temporary until I can find a better purple) leadbelcher titanium white (AK) Greedy gold (AP) drybrush with genestealer purple and use 3:1 ratio of darktone to quickshade medium. Then clean up white and do sparing highlight on infantry with genestealer purple

Dreadnought and Friends

This week I took advantage of a brief lull after my essay and lab test to paint up some Ultramarines for Heresy. First up is a Centurion I converted from a mk-IV body. Lightning claw and chainsword is not a legal loadout as I understand it but at the time I thought it was a good idea. Left shoulder pauldron is fron the ultramarines upgrade set and the backpack is magnetized for a jumpack (which is yet to be painted). I also added a greenstuff cape to cement the officer look.

And yes, purity seals. Those well versed in the lore of the Horus Heresy will know that there were none in the 31st millenium. I had originally built this model for 40k and was experimenting with green stuff at the time. I had done basecoats on this batch in a hurry and hadn't noticed them untill it was too late. Ah well. This is a Praetor that uses a model from the old resin masters of the chapter set. I swapped out the head for a mk-vi one so it would match the infantry. The base was elevated with some scrap wood tiles.

The Champion was made from a Mk4 body with the front torso, head, sword and shoulder from the upgrade sprue. The lightning claw arm was made from a terminator power fist with an added claw from the mk6 set. The other shoulder is from a custodes set and the backpack icon is from a 28mm imperial roman standard.

These Mk 6 marines were done as closely as possible to the batch I did a couple years back. That is building up shadow and highlight primarily theough airbrush for a more subtle look. Prussian blue from vallejo was used here for the base colour. White was added to for highlight and drakenhoff nightshade for shadow. Afterward drakenhoff was selectivly applied to recesses and panel lines. I simulated scratches in the armour with black lines, adding highlight beneath them. The only parts of the model that were edge highlighted are some of the backpack, knees and shoulders.

I also painted some mkiv I had laying around from the set I used to make the Champion and centurion. These given extra height with greenstuff in the neck and torso joints.

The Contemptor Dreadnought has nearly all the weapons magnetized sans the conversion beamer and volkite. The base was constructed out of foam, wood and brass rod.

Finally, I rebased Sicarius and an old terminator captain I had laying around. The original banner piece broke off (I blame my cat), so I used a nuncio-vox from the mk6 box

I'm fairly happy with how these turned out. Next up for the army is repairing a broken terminator captain and a land raider and repainting a rhino. Unfortunatly, heresy is a large scale game, so I have some work ahead of me to do a full army. I'm planning on adding 2 more predators and a vindicator laser destroyer to fill up an armour detatchment and repainting some invictarii that were trashed by the previous owner. Prehaps I can even resurrect the Primarch himself who was recovered from depths of facebook marketplace.