Blog Sume's Emperor's Children

[W.A.Rorie]

It was fine before. But I fixed it for you. 

[Sume]

10 hours ago, W.A.Rorie said:

It was fine before. But I fixed it for you. 

Ah okay. I wasnt happy with the picture I took.  I was trying to get a better one.  Thank you for fixing the new one, as no matter what I tried I couldnt get it to rotate right.  Probably missed the option in there somewhere.  

[Sume]

I decided to work on a batch of noise marines.  I admit they looked awful tell I got to the base coat for the white. The parts painted looked great expect it was one of those cases you have to wait.  I debated what color to make the tabards on these guys.  I felt any sort of white would clash with the white armor.  I thought about more purple, magenta, or pink but decided on black.  As I think black with the green tassel things was a more neutral and less flamboyant alternative and I didnt want the cloth to be a distraction or focal point.

 

I need to finish the blue white, highlight the skin on the armor and of course the actual white armor. I really liked the white noise marine that was in the book. I decided to make all the white with a purple shadow instead orlf turquoise.  I shaded almost everything with a purple to. The metal and even the gold. I am looking forward to seeing them finished and the basing material.  

Edited Monday at 03:30 PM by Sume

[Sume]

I plan to get an updated picture after work tomorrow.  Putting down the off white grey color took a little longer than expected.  Then I realized well I just created White Scars gone wild.

[Sume]

I figured I give the neon pink a few hours to dry before trying to add the mordant earth.

 

As you can see my take on the glittering myriad reminds me of white scars gone wild.  It was definitely time consuming so, will probably rearrange the list to be more low model count. That way I can make sure my friends orks are painted and then I can decide to change time permitting.  Potato camera does them no justice.  

Edited Wednesday at 03:30 PM by Sume

[RolandTHTG]

They look good. 

 

And the old Dornian Heresy alt-timeline did have the White Scars fall to slaanesh, so your "white scars gone wild" aren't that divergent from the realms of possibilities. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Following up on @RolandTHTG's point, just because you are playing the Emperor's Children faction, doesn't mean your faction has to trace its origin back to the Emperor's Children legion.  There is no reason why your own warband couldn't be former white scars who fell to Slaanesh and then joined an existing EC warband or independently adopted the EC way of warfare. 

 

My own EC are like that, being EC "though the back door".  Basically, mine were originally a variety of loyalist chapters fighting in a warzone, who collectively fell to Slaanesh and in the process freed an actual EC demon prince who had been mystically bound during the Scouring era.  Those who began to most closely follow his advice and leadership will be my EC models and use that codex - those who did to a lesser extent are my Heretic Astartes models under that codex.  So, 1 warband, 2 codexes (well, more if you count the knights and demons that are also part of or associated with the warband).

 

So, something similar (in details and/or theme) would certainly work for your own force if you want to keep the "White Scars gone wild" angle.

Edited Wednesday at 06:06 PM by Dr_Ruminahui

[Sume]

@Dr_Ruminahui, @RolandTHTG I was hoping to have made a light hearted joke. As now a days I find humor in short supply. 

 

I honestly haven't given much thought to the origins of these guys. With a idea that they've captured a cache of older Horus Heresy era equipment and been supplementing as they go. To explain away my kit bashing on mk 6 armor for my battle line units. My rhinos and land raider are actually HH plastic kits as I feel they look the part and lore better.

 

I am basing my scheme of the Glittering Myriad that was a single model in the codex. The two noise marine champions and four blastmasters happened to be my test models. I normally find the test batch of models to take the longest. I am happy with how it turned out.  As I tried a few new things like using gws newer "version of whites" and the pro acrylic blue white for where I would have used pure white. 

 

I am definitely going to be rearranging the initial plan and go for a lower model count in case I don't have time. I i decided to paint these first for a few reasons. Slaanesh is my favorite chaos power. Also, for me painting a cool white is longer than a dirty warm undead white.  I still got an entire ork army to get through. Orginally it was going to be 2 ork armies and I am trying not to second guess myself but wonder if I would have been better off with the blood axes. As everything for my force was built and converted by my friend besides my kommandos that I was building at work. I could have used the EC building time for painting.  At least once I get these done.  I can work on the rest at my own pace.  That includes grey knights, more sisters of battle, agents of the imperium stuff, necrons, the blood axes, tyranids and thousands sons. My friend made sure we had a army for each faction to change things up if something gets the sisters of battle triple nerf hammer. 

Edited yesterday at 01:48 AM by Sume