The Legion of Serpents

[PlagueMaster 1988]

Heres a WIP army I've got going.

Ive got a 1,000 pts primed and ready to paint. The army borrows heavily from a colour scheme I use on my loyalist marines called the Keepers of the Faith, with a green colour scheme. That army uses Chaplains as Vet. Sergeants, as they are very pious.

Heres what one Chaplain looks like:

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/08052008175.jpg

Its not a great pic, I had to use my mobile phone's camera as our old one gave up the ghost, but the Chaos Marines all have pics taken with my new camera.

 

Now, the colour scheme for my new Chaos army is very similar, I just changed the painting steps slightly, but makes them look completely different.

Heres what a couple of them look like, in WIP stages. The possessed with only the helmet painted was my first try with the colour scheme in the new way of painting it. I used the chappie from my loyalist marines to reference the colours. I always paint the head of a model first, as it serves as a point of reference to the rest of the figure as far as how the colour scheme should look. Since alot of the highlights are mixed paints without stocking them in empty pots, it really helps to have a colour already on the model to know what gradient the mix should be in.

Without further ado, the models:

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00158.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00169.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00176.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00141.jpg

 

The very green possessed was the first near-fully painted figure of the lot, to test how different colours could contrast with the green. I like the purply bone skin, it contrasts well without being painful to the eye or detracting from the green, and the green doesnt detract from the bone. I pulled it off.

I did the terminator to test how highlights would look on flat armour, as the possessed have lots of raised areas and recesses.

The end result is great I think, I'm proud of how it came off. I am after a uniform clean look, I'm not a big fan of too battle damaged marines, I like to showcase my models but I also wargame so that influences my painting style too. So I paint to meet both these mediums, but always lavish detail on the models (they cost a fortune, so why not pay loads of attention to a single marine eh?!).

 

The colour scheme is as follows:

Scaly Green and Chaos Black base coat (50:50mix).

Scaly Green as the armour colour, careful to leave the basecoat showing in the recesses for shading.

Scaly Green mixed with Snot Green as a highlight (60:40mix), adding more snot green for each highlight after,

followed by a snot green line highlight of the highest areas on the model. Very little of the highlight you see is pure snot green, I wanted to blend it a bit or it looked a bit too in your face.

The main difference with this colour scheme and the loyalist version is scaly green is the basecoat and then the snot green/scaly green 50/50 mix is the ectual armour colour, with goblin green mixed in to make the highlights brighter. No difference with the actual colours, but still drastically different in look.

 

Im not sure of a chapter symbol, Im thinking maybe a Snake coiled around a bloodied sword or something similar.

Have lots of back story, but will post that for next update B).

 

C&C's welcome, will post a new update within the next couple of days. Aiming to have finished the termie and both possessed completely, and started on another 2 of both units.

[Magnus Thane]

I like it so far. Interesting colorscheme but a good one.

Any background worked out? What additions will you make to your force?

[PlagueMaster 1988]

Heres the first update. Nothimg major really, just showing the army as it is now.

The 3rd possessed with the red hue to it will be sprayed over, I was just using red watered down paint to get a feel of what the recesses will look like.

I will be using a lot of blending with this one to blend the red into the green. I want him to have red/orange warp energies glowing from the cracks and recesses of the model, one because it will look cool (hopefully) and 2 hes the champion of the squad so will have a more powerful demon possessing him. I'm not 100% perfect at the technique so it may not look right first try. If thats the case he will get re-sprayed and I will start over again until I get it right.

The predator at the back is what I plan to add to the army.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00184.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00187.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00186.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00188.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/Cainy1988/DSC00189.jpg

 

The lord is marked with khorne (you can see the red hue on his helmet, thats the mark) with a jump pack and a glaive (a nod to the berzerker glaive from the old codex) with a huge blade. Hes the killer model in the army, to get into the battle quick. Last time I used him, he killed 7 terminators out of 8 from a second turn assault!!! Everything else is WYSIWYG.

 

The army as it stands is dead on 1000 pts, and the predator will be part of a 500 pt initial add on containing Khorne berzerkers, a greater daemon, 4 bikes and the predator. The bikes are to add mobility to the army and to try the daemon bomb tactic. I'll also consider using the possessed champion as a vessel, or any of the champions for that matter. It depends what daemonkin roll I get at the start of the game, or where the other units are.

 

Ill show some early WIP shots of the possessed champion. Id love some tips from people who are very proficient with blending, as the tutorial in How to Paint citadel miniatures is crap.