Help with bits sourcing?

[Claws and Effect]

Okay, a while back I came up with what I thought was a cool idea for a Chaos warband.

 

Long story short, they are the remnants of the Flame Falcons chapter who escaped the purge by the Grey Knights. Maybe a couple hundred of them left.

 

I need help locating as many "flame" bits as possible to help represent their unique mutation that got them purged on the first place. Namely, they burst into flame during battle.

 

On the table top I'm going to represent that by giving every model the Icon of Flame that can have it.

 

I'm going to use loyal Marines models as the basis for this army, as they did not turn willingly and haven't given themselves over to Chaos (though they are being slowly corrupted without their knowledge). They see themselves as still loyal and view the Inquisition as heretical for purging a loyal chapter without cause.

 

So, I need sources for as many flamey bits as I can get my hands on.

 

One other thing: I had an idea for a color scheme that involves bare metal, scorch marks, and slight remnants of their original heraldry (orange and red). This is to help reinforce the idea that they spend a lot of time on fire and it is burning the paint off their armor.

 

Any ideas on how I might do that?

[Halandaar]

With regard to the paint scheme, I remember seeing something like a "chipping material" which was basically a mask that you could remove after painting over it. So;

• Basecoat with your bare metal scheme
• Apply chipping stuff in areas you want to have the paint peel off
• Paint entire model with Orange & Red scheme
• Remove chipping medium using blu-tac (or similar), revealing the bare metal beneath for a realistic peeled-off-paint look

[Claws and Effect]

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With regard to the paint scheme, I remember seeing something like a "chipping material" which was basically a mask that you could remove after painting over it. So;

• Basecoat with your bare metal scheme
• Apply chipping stuff in areas you want to have the paint peel off
• Paint entire model with Orange & Red scheme
• Remove chipping medium using blu-tac (or similar), revealing the bare metal beneath for a realistic peeled-off-paint look

That sounds incredibly time consuming for the look I'm shooting for.

 

Would work great for a large amount of wear and tear. But I'm shooting for "has routinely been on fire for several millennia".

 

In other words, almost nothing of the original color is left. Just hints of it here and there. A car loses almost all of its paint after burning for less than an hour, I imagine centuries would leave even less.

[Grotsmasha]

Typically heat distressed metal (at least in the hobby) is depicted with bluish/purple tints. My recommendation is to paint your guys in leadbelcher, and hit them with a nuln oil wash or two. Then hit random spotches of either/both blue and purple washes wherever you'd like the most distress to be. Then paint in in small spots of their original colours, then stipple chaos black (with an old smallish brush) surrounding the colour so it looks like soot from where the burning was.

 

Cheers,

Jono

Edited March 9, 2018 by Grotsmasha

[Subtle Discord]

While I'd agree that 'heat staining' of metal is a look that you'd want to add to weapon barrels and the like, in this case, I think a millennium of being scorched and burnt would end up removing all of the paint and scorching the subject all but completely black.

 

I'd consider painting the majority of the model silver (or whatever base colour is fitting) using a sponge to add some small bits of colour in the nooks-and-crannies to emulate the last bits of paint still holding on (the sponge can quickly give a good 'crackled bits of paint' effect), and then just wash the model with Agrax Earthshade and Black wash over-and-over until desired depth of scorch is achieved. Start with washing the entire model and as the effect builds up to be more selective where the wash goes; you want the hands, knees, elbows, toes, and the like, to look a little less scorched as they would have some of it rubbed, scratched, and worn away through combat activity. Add some fresher dings, scratches, and scuffs of lighter metallic colour to represent really fresh weathering marks that have broken through the scorch build up recently.