Salamanders - Infernus marines

[Farva Ramathorn]

The 5 Infernus marines and the sargeant from the combat patrol magazine, plus a little bashing. 

 

A lot more chopping than I expected just to make bits from the salamander upgrade kit work.

 

Chainsword cut from one of my sons chaos kits. Not codex approved but I think it's style works with a flame effect. Which I'm still trying to get the hang of.

 

Its not clear in the pictures but i tried using some light contrast blue over the top of the ventilator shroud on the flamer units. I was going for a heat treated patina. Something I'll keep practicing.

 

Transfers, bases, shoulder detail and some fine detail still to do. 

Not happy with the helmets. Might need a do over. 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 9 by Farva Ramathorn

[ZeroWolf]

Very nice work  Salamanders colours look good on them

[Brother Carpenter]

I'd say if there's a stereotypical unit for sallies it's these guys.

 

Love the colour scheme.

I can see where you're coming from regarding the helmets., But yellow is such a pein in the b*tt to paint.

I found multiple drybrushes over a basecoat of xv something to be most effective.

 

But, nice mini's!!

[Firedrake Cordova]

There's a couple of ways of making yellow less annoying - mixing in another darker paint that covers better for the first basecoat, e.g. a tan (this has the bonus of also being able to be used to establish recess shadows), or using Imperial Fist Contrast over white to give you a yellow base to paint your desired yellow over (Imperial Fist gives a relatively flat yellow with little "contrast effect" whilst having relatively high pigment levels).

[ZeroWolf]

3 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

There's a couple of ways of making yellow less annoying - mixing in another darker paint that covers better for the first basecoat, e.g. a tan (this has the bonus of also being able to be used to establish recess shadows), or using Imperial Fist Contrast over white to give you a yellow base to paint your desired yellow over (Imperial Fist gives a relatively flat yellow with little "contrast effect" whilst having relatively high pigment levels).

I do something similar, though I use brown, as my base, working up to yellow

[Farva Ramathorn]

Better angle pictures. 

 

I like the suggestion to dry brush the helmets and starting with a tan or dull yellow base using a contrast. Not sure why I didnt.

 

I need get some  finer brushes before I do lenses again. 

[Farva Ramathorn]

 

 

Prep and practice amd perhaps a little bit macabre!

 

im not good at painting faces and have a librarian to do.  had a few unused heads on sprues so got clipping. 

 

A couple of fleshtones and a fine brush are in the post.

 

 

 

 

 

[Pearson73]

I like the flame effect on the chainsword, very fitting! I think yellow is a good choice for the helmet and the others have given some good suggestions how to achieve it nicely.

 

Great idea to practice on all those heads! I can really recommend pre-shading them before applying skin tones. I normally go for a dark purple/indigo in recesses and a light green on areas I will highlight. Changing the colours will give you different hues of skin.