Crusade/Heresy Era Death Guard Painting Tutorial Part II - Green and Details

In Part one of the tutorial I showed you how I painted the white armour plates on the Death Guard Cataphractii Terminator. Now that the messiest part of the painting is out of the way I'll move on to how I did the green armour plates and the details.

For the green armour you'll need the following paints:

As before I've used the paints I have personally. If you're using just 'new' Citadel paints then substitute colours as below:

Knarloc Green = Loren Green

Devlan Mud = Argrax Earthshade

The first layer is a 50/50 mix of Chaos Black and Knarloc Green

next carefully Drybrush the green areas with pure Knarloc Green followed by a 50/50 mix of Knarloc Green and Ulthuan Grey

Finally glaze the green with Waywatcher Green and once that's dry add a light glaze of Devlan Mud to tie tone of the green to the tone of the White.

Now you can finish the mini off by adding the detailing. I used Boltgun Metal washed with Devlan Mud and Badab Black for the iron areas. Brazen Brass washed with Devlan Mud for the brass aquila and Chaos Black highlighted with Adeptus Battlegrey then washed with Badab Black for the 'soft armour' and cabling, but that was just my preference.

If you have any questions or comments then please ask/leave them, thanks

James

Mk.IIe Phobos Predator Executioner

Last year I built and painted a Mk.IIa Phobos Rhino (pictured above) inspired by the Deimos pattern kits that Forge World has been releasing, I envisioned the Phobos pattern as sort of bridging the gap between the contemporary Space Marine tanks and the older Deimos patterns. Recently re-discovered STC acheaeotech has yielded more destructive designs from the forges of Phobos and I'm pleased to present the WIP of the Mk.IIe Phobos Predator Executioner:

As you can see in the images below, I've remodelled the turret and converted the fore armour of the Predator to resemble the look of the Phobos Rhino:

 What I can't quite make up my mind about though is whether to mount the turret to the rear similar to the Deimos pattern Predators:

Or I can mount the turret in the centre like the contemporary Mars pattern Mk.IVb Predator:

Either way there's still quite a bit to do before it's ready for painting, not least re-attaching the sponson mounted Heavy Bolters  but I'm pretty pleased with how it's looking so far.

Betrayal at Istvaan III update

Made a start on painting this pair today. I decided to paint the World Eater in a similar way to the Death Guard Cataphractii as in my opinion the sons of Angron wouldn't spend much time keeping their armour clean. The Emperors Children marine will be pristine in contrast as I can't see them looking anything but their best unless it's completely unavoidable.

Eversor Assassin Painting Challenge

As Dark Materials Miniatures has mentioned, some (read, 'a long') time ago we arranged a painting challenge. The idea was that we'd both paint up an Eversor Assassin and see who came up with the best mini. I've finally got myself into gear and got mine ready to go:

 Originally I had conceived of a grand scenic base for the mini but try as I might I just couldn't get any of my ideas to work properly. For those that don't already know I'm a little bit fanatical about my mini's looking 'right'. I can spend hours putting a mini into various blu-tacked poses until I'm happy because if they don't look natural or achievable by the mini in question or even if the mini just looks off, I won't or rather can't paint it. To me things like this can ruin even the best of paint jobs so it's just not worth risking. I know that's probably a bad obsession but I like to think that my finished mini's vindicate this 'belief'. 

With that in mind I opted for a simple rubble strewn base as though the uncharacteristically static Eversor (to be fair I think this is one of the older Citadel mini's that has aged fairly well) is sweeping his surroundings, assessing a target or just posing... to be honest I'm not going to argue with a drug-fuelled hyper-aggressive killing machine. 

Now all I have to do is decide what shade of black to paint him...

More Betrayal at Istvaan III minis

Managed to get the second pair of minis for my planned 'Istvaan III quartet' assembled this afternoon, marines of World Eaters (left) and Emperor's Children (right) Legions. I'm hoping to have them finished and ready for display in my local Waterstones by the end of the week.