I Blame the Dark Gods... - Painting Yellow Chaos Marines "Solar Giants"

[RoguePanda]

Afternoon (or morning, or night, whatever suits you) everyone,

 

I am a long, long tim lurker here. I have been really struggling to do anything, anything at all, to do with the hobby for so long it's actively painful. I was failing to paint anything the other day, staring at a small five man squad of chaos marines. I didn't really want to paint any of the existing colour schemes. And my painting skills are basic. But... I just decided to have a play around with the paints. 

 

I remembered the old Warhammer Fantasy colour scheme for Mousillon, yellow and black, and decided to have a go at making it work on Chaos Marines. The results are just below. I am not any better at photography than I am at painting, so the images are a bit poor, but I just wanted to share.

 

At the moment they are tentatively going under the name of "Solar Giants" and need a warband symbol. I am planning for them to be a result of the Age of Apostasy - a marine crusade or chapter who made the mistake of backing Vandire's side. Rather than admit they had gotten it wrong, they fled from the aftermath, enting up greedy and embittered. Now they act as pirates and mercenaries, but try to drag people into their visions of the 'New Imperium', their broken vision of what could have been or still could be, if they are finally, finally vindicated. If they were right. I wanted to play around with the sorts of ideas presented by the Flesheater Courts from Age of Sigmar, people so broken that they hallucinate their own noble purpose, while being the worst sorts of monsters - and then spreading their delusions as wide as possible like a contagion.

 

Anyway, I am just starting a topic to share them in the hope that it will motivate me to actually keep painting. 

Any comments are welcome, as well as suggestions for the warband symbol! Something simple would be great, since my skills at freehand are pretty feeble. All the best to everyone :)

 

- Panda

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by RoguePanda
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45 minutes ago, RoguePanda said:

If they were right. I wanted to play around with the sorts of ideas presented by the Flesheater Courts from Age of Sigmar, people so broken that they hallucinate their own noble purpose, while being the worst sorts of monsters - and then spreading their delusions as wide as possible like a contagion

 

As a FEC collector and fan, I highly approve of this take. Depending on how you want to take this, this could be a great theme for a Tzeentch warband IMO. Not really focused around sorcery like the Thousands Sons, but aspects such as illusion and lies. It could also work for Undivided too, as the "contagion" of madness would be a great Nurgle/Tzeentch mix.

 

The pics are a bit hard to see (Id recommend a lightbox, you can get small ones on Amazon for pretty cheap), but I don't see any issues with your painting. Yellow is a hard color to get right, and it looks like you did a fine job.

 

Symbols are difficult, depends on if you want to freehand or try and get some decals. I think a simple sun symbol would be an easy choice. Maybe a sun symbol free hand with some chaos star decal over that?