This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer Imperial Fists Mark VI Legion Command Space Marine from the Horus Heresy. It includes a blue glowing eyes tutorial. For the whole mini including the base the process took 3 hours.
This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer Death Guard Mark III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. It includes a green glowing eyes tutorial and how I painted the OSL effect on the Plasma Gun and armor For the whole mini including the base the process took 3.5 hours.
This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer Thousand Sons Mark III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. It includes a green glowing eyes tutorial and how I painted the Gemstones of the Void Dart. For the whole mini including the base the process took 3.0 hours.
This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer White Scars Kit bashed Mark VI Vigilator Space Marine from the Horus Heresy. It includes a blue glowing eyes tutorial. For the whole mini including the base the process took 4 hours.
This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer Emperor’s Children Mark III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. It includes a green glowing eyes tutorial and how I painted the glowing power sword. For the whole mini including the base the process took 3.5 hours.
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Blood Angels MK VI Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. This Video also includes the steps for armor chipping and battle damage
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Ultramarine MK VI Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. This Video also includes the steps for armor chipping and battle damage
The Base paint job i show in this tutorial needs around 2.5h. For the whole mini including basing it took 3h.
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Ultramarine MK VI Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. This Video also includes the steps for armor chipping and battle damage
The Base paint job i show in this tutorial needs around 2.5h. For the whole mini including basing it took 3.5h.
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Word Bearers MK III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. The Base paint job i show in this tutorial needs around 2h. For the whole mini including OPTIONAL highlights and basing it took 3h.
This video is a quick tutorial where I show you how i painted the details on my Legio Custodes Armor. This is part 2 of 2 and covers the whole process of painting Shoulder pads, Ropes, Leather and Gemstones.
This video is a quick tutorial where I show you how I painted my true metallic metal Warhammer 40k Adeptus Custodes armor. This video is part 1 of 2 parts and covers the whole process of painting gold armor. The second part will cover the leather, gems and ropes.
Another Quick painting guide, how I painted a Grimdark Salamanders Horus Heresy MK VI Space Marine. The Video also includes a guide how you can easily paint freehand flames on shoulder pads.
The base process of painting the armor I show in this video takes around 2h of painting time.
Here a quick Video how i create my simple buts still epic Mars Bases.
I used this Bases on several Projects. The biggest one was my Armies on Parade 2023 Sons of Horus entry.
I also use them on the ongoing Time vs. Result category where i started to paint every Horus Heresy Legion by mixing multiple speed painting techniques.
Last year i started with a concept mini of a Black Templar colorscheme that is a little bit more outstanding then the regular black versions.
So i researched a couple of crusader style colors in the depths of the world wide web, and then there was this moment that brought me back to some old World of Warcraft times…
What if i paint some Scarlet Crusade style?!
With that idea in mind i took a looking a couple of Artworks about the scarlet crusade and realized that i have one big problem with that idea. There are no logos or decals of the logos…
Okay, challenge accepted! So i have to test freehand painting!
So i started with the freehand which took me around two evenings of painting. As i saw the final result of the freehand i was so proud of it, that i thought, lets try hard with the model!
Here is the final result:
Bayards Revenge Diorama by PlaguenarrScarlet Crusade freehand close upBayards Revenge Front ViewOrk NMM Boots close upNMM Sword and face close upOrk copper NMM close up
A couple of weeks ago i went to my local Warhammer store and viewed because of a rainy day a starter game from the 10th Edition of Warhammer 40k. As i saw that the new combat Patrol system is a easy stating point for the 10th edition and also realized that the Space Marine Combat Patrol only includes 12 models i decided to start a quick combat patrol painting project.
Also one of my loved local Warhammer store workers who is a big Alpha Legion fan announced that he will leave the GW family for a new carrer. And an Idea was born…
So i wanted to paint all the Combat Patrol units in a Alpha Legion theme to honor my local Warhammer store worker called “Mark”.
As a Start Point and schedule i decided to almost use “speed painting patterns”. So i gave myself around 3-4h for every unit model and about 10h for each of the character models.
Half on the way to the goal i ran into a post of a Alpha Legion Member that decloaks and i was addicted to the idea that at least the Captain needs this awesome effect painted on.
Here are the final results of the combat patrol painting:
As i saw the Adeptus Arbites Miniature of the month May 2023. I almost instandly got a a flashback about the 1987 released movie RoboCop and got in love with the model.
Thats why i decided to join another miniature of the month painting competition.
As i thought a bit foward about the movie i got the idea that i would be a awesome basic scheme to paint the armor in metallic style instead of black.
After i practiced some simple NMM (non metallic metal) parts on multiple models i decided that this might be the right time to paint a whole miniature in NMM.
This is how it came out:
Adeptus Arbites NMM frontAdeptus Arbites NMM rightAdeptus Arbites NMM left
In November 2022 in the middle of a visit in my local Warhammer store i decided by fun to join the miniature of the month painting competiotion with the Lumineth Realm-Lords Archer.
I was verry surprised that i won and got motivated by former Golden Daemon Winner Mattias Winter to try more competition painting.
This brings me to a story addicted to my short About Me first Warhammer journey. In all those years off from the hobby. There was always this one story in the Warhammer universe i could never forget about.
Horus vs. Emperor of Mankind
As i discovered on my return to the hobby that there is now a whole game about this Warhammer era called “The Horus Heresy” i was so fascinated that i decided i need a Sons of Horus Army with the Warmaster himself.
What brings me back to 2022…
As Games Workshoup in March 2022 annouced a new Horus Heresy Version even with new models i decided this is the time to start a Sons of Horus Project!
With this in mind and the motivation of Mattias Winter the project for Armies on Parade 2023 was figured out…
This Post will be the diary of the whole project and will track my progress of thinking, building, painting, struggeling, hopes and also fears…
The Offical Schedule
January – February: New Year New Army
March – April: Supreme Command
May – June: Gods of War
July – August: Magicans and Machines
September – October: Battlefront
November: The Grand Finale
The Project
So the basic idea of the wohl proect is a Sons of Horus Army thats full Eavy Metal level painted.
It was always one of my dreams to have atleast one full display army. The Army Will contain arround 4k Points including the new Horus the Ascenden Model
These are the Current models the project will include:
HQ
Horus Lupercal the Ascended
Maloghurst the Twisted
Ezekyle Abaddon
Core
Legion Tactical Squad MK IV
Legoin Drop Pod
Legion Tactical Squad MK IV
Legion Rhino
Elite
Contemptor-Dreadnought
Legion Dreadnought Drop Pod
Contemptor-Dreadnought
Contemptor-Dreadnought
Justaerin Terminators
Support
Legion Land Raider Spartan
Legion Kratos Heavy Assault Tank
The assembling process
First things first…
So as the offical schedule proposes i started a new army…
So i decided to assemble all the minis nefore i start to drop any paint on a mini.
I started the assembling process in the holidays of chrismas and my goal was to finish all of them at new year’s eve exept for horus and the Justaerin Terminators… Horus wasent even available to this time. And the Justaerin just came up as i started to plan the scenery….
The be honest… i fnished the assembling process on February the 10th… The good news is that Horus and the Justaerin where also ordered and finished at this time.
If you dont kitbash assembling in my opinion is one of the most boring parts in the hobby… i thought until i was finished with lets say 75%. After this marker i gopt so motivated by the pile i allready finished, that i really enjoyed even the assembly process at this point.
Im really sure that for future projects like this i have a new point of view to the whole building process and can much more enjoy it!
Building the HQ And It´s scenery
With the concept in mind to build an environment based on the heresy 2.0 trailer i started to think about how to build a scenery that will achiev the first real goal on the official schedule.
So this little piece of scenery should be a small diorama at its own and put all the focus on the warmaster itself without stealing him the whole show. It should also fit all together as a centerpiece on the wohle board later on.
Inspired by the Horus Ascended Diorama base i decided to arrange some Imperial Fist corpses arround the whole HQ.
Horus should be in the center so that he gains most of the attention. The corpses will be focus arranged arround him. To keep the scenery authentic and push also a small amount of attention to Maloghurst i decided to use his pose targeting a enemy, to let him shoot a Imperial fist within the scenery.
Abaddon will in this scenery join the battlefield in the background supported by his mighty Justaerin and a awesome looking Spartan Assault Tank.
Here the first impressions…
The photos where taken at February 18 and i started to feel some pressure about finishing the HQ until the end of April.
First drops of paint
With the pressure in mind i decided to start painting even if the diorama scenery was not finished
The Painting Order should be the following:
Maloghurst the Twisted (to transfer my basic scheme on a character)
Ezekyle Abaddon (to develop and train me the black armor scheme for Horus)
Horus Ascended (to apply all ive learned and get the best possible result)
Maloghurst the Twisted
To be honest… i allready started to pait the Maloghurst model at the end of 2022.
After i developed the armor colors on the first 5 MKVI Space Marines long time before i decided to join Armies on Parade with Sons of Horus i started to paint Maloghurst with the same scheme to see if it fits together with the gold parts.
After i achieved that step i stopped painting the model… i got a real lack of motivation with all the details on the whole model.
With the Armies on Parade challange in mind i found the motivation to finish the model
But it took me still two more weeks to finish. The photos where taken on the 3rd of March 2023
Here the final result:
Maloghurst frontMaloghurst backMaloghurst side details
Ezekyle Abaddon round one
This ist the first horror storry i’ve to tell within the project…
I started to paint Abaddon with the intention to prepare a colorscheme formula for the armor that i can trasfer the to Horus and the Justaerin and wanted to try a red OSL effect on the face that is based on a guide from Richard Gray.
I was really happy with the result and finished the model on 17th of March 2023. A Day later i want to give the model a varnish coat and finish the base.
This is wehere the horror begun…
I accidently used a gloss varnish instead of a satin. I panicked and before the gloss varnish was dry and sparyed a satin varnish coat over… this ended up i sparkelig on the armor and i had to repaint the whole model…
Ezekyle Abaddon Version one finishedEzekyle Abaddon Varnish damagedEzekyle Abaddon in Isoprop
Ezekyle Abaddon round two
After this really frustrating expirinece i needed another two weeks to paint Abaddon…
The bright side with the previous accident… I was even more happy with the new final result of the model.
A two week setback on the whole project is really hard. Im now in a situation where iam not able to finish Horus and the Whole HQ including the diorama base within the official schedule at the end of april…
Stay tuned for more updates…
Horus Ascended
As soon as i finished Abaddon i directly started with the painting of Horus. This model has so much details that i used 6 days of my vacation to paint most of the model within the offical schedule. I painted on this vacation days arround 14-16 hours. On my regular wor days i painted arround 4-6 hours a day on the model.
As i finished arround 70% of the model i got knocked out by a COVID infection. With this infection i lost another 10 days on the whole project. At this point i was sure that iam not able to finish horus and the diorama base within the april timeline for the first official goal.
After i got healthy again i finished painting Horus on 22nd of April 2023. With the vaccation and my regular work days combined it took arround three weeks and arround 120h of painting at all.
In case of the time pressure i only took one picture of the finished model until now. I also didnt finish the base at this stage because i decided to paint it parallel to the diorama base in case of fitting together. I will uploade more detailed pictures of horus in a couple of days
But here atlleast one picture of the final result:
My deadline to finish the diorama base was on 27th of April 2023. The major problem was that i had a all day appointment on this date. And the weekend was planned with a friend that i only see once a year.
So i only had 4 days left to assemble the diorama base and paint the whole stuff on it including the Horus Base.
I developed the plan to finish the building and assambling within Sunday 23rd of April 2023. And using speedpainting techniques to finish the painting within the 3 days left.
Luckly i allready assembled all the corpses and pieces i wanted to use on the base so i only hat to remove the mold lines and assemble the scenery.
It took me still a whole day to finish the assembling the secnery. But i with a little night shift i finished arround 11.40 p.m. on Sunday 23rd of April 2023.
Assembled diorama base
From now on i only had arround 6-8 hours a day with only 3 days left to paint the whole stuff.
My recipie to still hit the goal had the following steps:
Imperial Fists Units
basecoat with Citadel – Mournfang Brown
zenithal highlights with a 50:50 mix of Citadel – Mournfang Brown and P3 – Morrow White
spot highlights with P3 – Morrow White
apply Citadel – Imperial Fists Contrast paint all over the models
basecoat metal parts with Vallejo – Gunmetal Grey
basecoat black parts with Citadel – Abaddon Black
edge hightlight black parts with Citadel – Mechanicus Standard Grey
apply decals with microset
apply Vallejo – Gloss Varnish
Oilwash with 50:50 mix of Schmincke – burnt sienna and Schmincke – ivory black
wait until the next day
rub off unwanted remains of oilpaint with makeup tips
apply Vallejo – Satin Varnish
basecoat the eyes with Citadel – Abaddon Black
paint 60% of the eye lense with Citadel – Mechanicus Standard Grey
paint 30% of the eye lense with Citadel – Eshin Grey
paint a small white dot into the upper corner with P3 – Morrow White
apply a small amount edge hightlights and glazes on focus parts with Citadel – Yriel Yellow
apply some chipping with a sponge and Citadel – Rhinox Hide
apply some blood with Citadel – Blood For The Blood God
Stone Terrain and Bricks
basecoat with Citadel – Mechanicus Standard Grey
shade with a 50:50 mix of Citadel – Black Templar Contrast paint and Water
drybrush with Citadel – Mechanicus Standard Grey
drybrush the light catching areas with Citadel – Eshin Grey
Steal Beams and metal Areas
basecaot with Vallejo – Gunmetal Grey
shade with a 50:50 mix of Citadel – Black Templar Contrast paint and Water
apply a small amount edge hightlights with Vallejo – Silver
Terrain Ground
basecoat with Citadel – Doombull Brown
apply Vallejo – Pigment Binder
apply Vallejo – Burnt Sienna
I was note able to apply the terrain effects until 26th of April 2023 so i reached the deadline of 27th of April 2023 without a finished terrain. Luckly my all day appointment on 27th of April 2023 was earlier over then expected! So i had another 2 hours to finish the terrain effects and was able to hand out my entry on 28th of April 2023 to my local Warhammer Store – Stuttgart ! I can tell you that was untill now the hell of a journey!
Here the picture of the finished center piece for the project:
In case of the commitment i have done to finish the project this post has home kind of information lags about the rest of the process since the April part. I will update some more kind of information about similar other steps in the next couple of weeks
Showdown
On the 18th of November the final showdown came up! Ive cut some models out of the former planned diorama in case of space and time problems.
All i can say about time is that i took around 1000h of work to finish the Diorama to this stage.
But even with lesser models its even im my eyes a stunnig project. And with all the Eavy Metal painted models on the Board a Childhood Dream of a Eavy Metal painted Warhammer Army finally has become true!
And even more i also won the cup of our store competition!
With the upcoming Hexfire release i decided to paint some Grey Knights. I also thought this is maybe a good time to figure out some prejudice with metallic colors the community has in mind.
Most miniature painters say that GW metallic colors are bad for painting becuase of there small proportion to metallic pigments and the thickness.
With my ongoing research to what colors i will bench against each other i also find out that there are diffrent primers that will have impact on the result of painting metallic metal. So i decided also to bench the results of a regular primer and a metallic primer. The research also showed up that most of the pro painters that using true metallic metal colors using vallejo or GW colors to paint there models.
This is why i came up to paint 4 models at the end of the day. I needed to paint 2 diffrent color types with 2 diffrent primers.
I marked all the modells at the bottom with a series of letters to define how they will get painted.
Definition of marks
VM GW – vallejo matt primer, Games Workshop colors
VG GW – vallejo gloss primer, Games Workshop colors
VM V – vallejo matt primer, vallejo colors
VG V – vallejo gloss primer, vallejo colors
But before we start to paint lets take a lookon all the colors i used for the comparsion.
Start with 2-3 layers of a slight Base Coat of “vallejo – Black (70.950)”. Try to paint these layers as thin as you can. Its important that you dont loose any details. If you have a airbrush, paint the black Base Coat with the airbrush.
Make sure that the whole model is covered after the black layers with a deep true black color environment.
Step #2 – Red layer
For the red layer take a brush in size 3+ and dip it half with the belly right into the color “Citadel (Layer) – Evil Sunz Scarlet”.
Dont thin the color with water. This is important becasue we want the color still moist, if we bring on the next layer to get a smooth transition between the colors. This technique is also called wet blending
For the later transition between the “Citadel (Technical) – Mordant Earth” and the armor color” vallejo – Black (70.950)” its important that you always have a small edge of black arround the parts painted red.
Step #3 – Orange layer
The ornage layer is basicly the same procedure as the red layer. The onyl differnce is that the are you paint with “Citadel (Layer) – Fire Dragon Bright” is inside the red area you painted in the second step.
Make also sure that you get some streaks between the red and the orange layer by wet blending these colors.
This gives the armor in the final result a more realistic ember effect.
Try to have a moist color when you get over to the next step.
Step #4 – Yellow layer
The “Citadel (Layer) – Flash Gitz Yellow” layer is the last color layer. Try to thin the color a littebit down and get it mixed with the moist parts of the layer from the previos step. Its also important for the end result of the effect that you have some more potent yellow spots.
If youre done wait until the whole layers are dry before you get to the next step.
Step #5 – Mordant Earth layer
Now its time to bring up the armor effect ba applying the “Citadel (Technical) – Mordant Earth” over the parts we painted red/orange/yellow.
For this step use a old brush. The technical color will mostly ruin your brush if youre not fast enough by cleaning it up.
Try to have an unconsitent structure by applying thick laysers to some parts and thin layers to some other parts.
Its important to know that thick layers will result in large cracks and thin layers will result smaller cracks. If your layer is to thin this will result in no cracks at all.
After you covered all areas with Citadel (Technical) – Mordant Earth wait 2-3 hours for the final result. Or speedup the process with a blow dryer.
Step #6 – Finish your model for a awesome result
To achiev a real awesome look and feel with the armor effect it is still important to finish your model in the regular way. Like edge highlighting and painting a small amount of details.
As you can see in the picture above. I finished the models by edge highlighting with “Citadel (Layer) – Eshin Grey ” and “Citadel (Layer) – Dawnstone”.
The bases got finished in the same way as the cracks of the armor.
I also added a the nice green plasma osl effect to give the models a more intressting environment.
