Celebrandas's Hobby Blog - Current Project: Exorcists

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I decided to start a hobby blog here since I need a bit of accountability when it comes to painting my minis. Otherwise they just sit there on the shelf and make me feel bad.

My current project is actually the first project I started. To make a long story short, I couldn't decide on a color scheme for more than a few minis, so I stripped them a few times. Then I came across the Exorcists. I love their color scheme because it's reminiscent of the Word Bearers, and I like that the fluff behind them (as far as I could find) is that they're basically the Grey Knights, but without the insane secrecy that results in tons of unnecessary deaths.

This is my first step towards the Exorcists. My airbrush has been out of commission for a bit and the weather hasn't permitted rattle cans, so I had to use brush-on primer. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I got a bunch of new Scale 75 paints (the old kind, not the new artist acrylics) when I backed their kickstarter, so I'm going to be trying out the reds set over the course of this project. I'm going to start with a base coat of Deep Red and see where I need to go from there.

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Some progress has been made, but my compressor for my airbrush died on me after getting seven minis basecoated. I switched to doing it by hand, but it's slow going because it takes roughly 3 layers for my Scale 75 Deep Red to cover the black well enough for me to move on. Thankfully, the paint dries quickly so new layers can go on fairly quickly.

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I've been busy over the last several days working on painting a few of my marines. I forgot how hard it was painting red over black until I started on the first mini I had to basecoat by hand, so I switched to brown over black, then red over the brown after that. It seems to be going much more smoothly now.

Not sure why this is sideways, the picture was fine when I uploaded it... This one was the mini I did with red over the black. It took a lot of layers to make it work, and I still need to go back over several spots to do some touch-ups.

This one was the first mini I tried with brown over the black, then red. I had used him to test a few other things, so I went ahead and tried the bone-ish color that I was going to be using, as well as the green for the eye lenses. Overall, I'm far more satisfied with this one.

That's all the progress I've made so far, though I do hope to make more soon-ish. Hopefully I can find a big block of time over the next week or so to get at least a squad fully finished. I'm going to paint them to a higher standard than my usual minis, so I want to take my time and make sure they look good.

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Today I tried a another fix to my red-over-black problem: drybrushing white, then painting red. I'm not overly satisfied with the result because it came out too bright, so I'm going to continue with my previous brown over black, the red over brown plan.

 

The beakie marines, the random marine in the back, and the sergeant are the test minis for the white drybrush idea. It's only one coat, but it came out much brighter than I'd like, especially compared to the brown over black.