Building Better Worlds: A Terrain Progress Log

[hd3]

So I've added mephiston red to the shoulder pauldron trim to indicate this guy is from the 3rd company and a dorn yellow edge highlight. I'm always amazed by how much more the edge highlights make the model stand out. I understand the appeal of the 'eavy metal style.

 

I also realized I should've clarified that the reason I'm putting this on my terrain blog is the base. This is the same base as my Salamander but this one I'm going to paint as a snowy glacier type environment to reflect the fists home world of inwit. I haven't worked it out exactly yet but I was considering ulthuan grey all over, then a really thin layer of aethermatic blue or talassar blue over the lower recessed ground, then apothecary white in the recesses of the raised glacier chunks and an edge highlight of corax white. This is my first time painting white at such a scale though so I'm open to ideas 

[hd3]

I'm taking an emergency break from my Fist Intercessor because I've been challenged to a game of combat patrol on Monday. While I do have all the models for the CSM patrol, my last alpha legion possesed is in bits awaiting his astartes casualty base.  So I've decided to paint the spare extra possesed I have as a Word Bearer for Sunday to fill in. 

 

I did the flesh first going bugman's glow to cadian fleshtone with a recess wash of carroburg crimson and druchii violet. My worry is that the cadian flesh tone looks almost too healthy on a demonically possessed model. I want it to look unwell. 

 

I haven't settled on the rest but this is a 40k word bearer, so no heresy era brighter red with walls of text or black shoulders here. I was thinking khorne red, nuln oil, re-establish khorne red around the middle then highlight with mephiston red and a spot highlight maybe of evil sunz. For the metallic trim I was gonna use gunmetal by Vallejo to give it a really grimey metal look.

 

Since this is still a terrain log, I'm gonna try something new and use that 40mm sigmar temple ruins base I have. For the Word Bearers, that seems appropriate.

 

For the temple base, I used mounrfang brown which will eventually be covered in stirland battlemire and Vallejo English uniform for the stones. I plan to put basilicanum grey or maybe even astrogranite on the rocks. For the runes in the stones, I want them to glow in contrast to the possessed. So maybe corax white with kroxigor scale or tesseract glow on top.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 10:22 AM by hd3

[hd3]

I ve gone with khorne red for the armour with nuln oil all over and a second coat of khorne red away from the edges. For the trim I went with Vallejo gunmetal because the dirtiest silver seemed to suit late 40k word bearer. Ushabti bone and agrax then flayed one flesh on the tips for the horns. For the eye lens I used corax white then tesseract glow and a little warp lightning on the side to give more depth. Finally mephiston red for highlighting and I repeated the same formula on the base.

 

For the intercessor, I didn't change much except that the imperial fist chapter badge absolutely refused to lay flat on the shoulder. I used micro set but no help there. 

[Rusted Boltgun]

You have my sympathies with the chapter badge, I use them on my homebrew chapter. I end up absolutely drenching the decal in solution and working away at it for ages. If I am lucky, it shrinks and I get a small wrinkle.

 

If have read that small incisions at the edge would help it deform but that might mean cutting into the black border, depending on how you have trimmed them. Nightmare!

Edited Tuesday at 02:37 PM by Rusted Boltgun
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[Cleon]

Yeah, the round decals are by far the worst to apply to marine shoulder pads. Blood Angel chapter icons are usually ok with just a quick cut up from the drop between the wings, but I've never managed to get round ones to play nice.

[hd3]

Finally got some good photos of my word bearer possessed!