Antarius' fall project(s) 2024 (presently loyalist Emperor's Children)

[Antarius]

32 minutes ago, StratoKhan said:

Still haven’t quite worked out what this is! There’s not loads of purple space marines but I’m not sure it’s EC?

Yup! Loyalist Emperor's Children to fight my mate's Death Guard in the new year 

[Elazar The Glorified]

That EC Rhino looks a lush colour!

[Antarius]

18 hours ago, Elazar The Glorified said:

That EC Rhino looks a lush colour!

Thanks! I am trying for something along the lines of “Tyrian purple”, the colour of the roman emperors  and, according to the black books, the colour of the EC. I have mixed up a purple primer and then sprayed Vallejo’s “Warlord Purple” over the top. I am a bit afraid that I’ll run into trouble once my purple runs out, though, as it seems that the currently sold Warlord Purple is much darker than my pot (which is quite pinkish and transparent, but perfect over my purple primer…).

Edited Friday at 07:39 AM by Antarius

[Antarius]

Managed to test a bit of weathering (scratches) on the Rhino and get a few test marines painted up. I read that white armour inlays where popular among terran and (later) loyalist EC, so I figured it might be worthwhile to see if that’d look good on the shoulderpads. It’s quite striking and provides some contrast, but I am not sure about it…

[Tallarn Commander]

The weathering is looking great!

[Antarius]

12 hours ago, Tallarn Commander said:

The weathering is looking great!

Thanks! It's extremely easy to do (a bit of sponge and some metallic paint and the you just make "scratches" where you think it'd be realistic/look good).

[Firedrake Cordova]

15 hours ago, Antarius said:

I am a bit afraid that I’ll run into trouble once my purple runs out, though, as it seems that the currently sold Warlord Purple is much darker than my pot

That would be unfortunate.  Looking at the images on Vallejo's site, my pot appears brighter than the swatch - about the same as this photo from a retailer. I'd hope that Vallejo would introduce a new colour, rather than changing an existing one, although I'd also hope that the swatches on their site were accurate (my monitor is colour-calibrated). :/

 

Have you tried looking at Coat D'Arm's Warlock Purple? It should be the same colour as the colour Warlord Purple was meant to match. Alternatively, do you think you could lighten any new pots to match (possibly ivory might be good for this)?

[Antarius]

On 11/22/2024 at 10:17 AM, Firedrake Cordova said:

That would be unfortunate.  Looking at the images on Vallejo's site, my pot appears brighter than the swatch - about the same as this photo from a retailer. I'd hope that Vallejo would introduce a new colour, rather than changing an existing one, although I'd also hope that the swatches on their site were accurate (my monitor is colour-calibrated). :/

 

Have you tried looking at Coat D'Arm's Warlock Purple? It should be the same colour as the colour Warlord Purple was meant to match. Alternatively, do you think you could lighten any new pots to match (possibly ivory might be good for this)?

Yeah, I think I might try to go down the path of lightening the new colour. I ordered two pots and they should arrive any day now, so I can get started on experimenting.