Sunday, April 26, 2020

More Salamanders Painting

More progress over the weekend just gone. The squad is all up to the same stage now and is basically awaiting some final detailing (e.g., finishing off the eye lenses, adding writing to the oaths of the moment), weathering (need to make some parts look a bit more worn in addition to the battle damage already painted on), base painting (its currently blandly undercoated, but aiming to make it gritty). Hence only a bit more effort to go on this squad and it'll be done.


Monday, April 20, 2020

Salamanders Squad Painting Progress

Some painting progress on my Shattered Legions Salamanders squad today. I've done the undercoat, the base coat (using contrast paints) and a number of other details, as illustrated in the images below. 





After the base layers had been applied, I was concerned that the shading that used the contrast paints wasn't exaggerated sufficiently for my tastes. These marines are, after all, Istvaan 5 survivors on the Urgall Depression. Therefore I turned to the old favourite: Nuln Oil. A good soaking in the oil has resulted in a much dirtier, and worn look for this layer and I'm pleased with the results thus far. Obviously there's still a long way to go with the edge highlighting yet to be done, and the details on the shoulder pads - including the flame iconography - to deal with. These will be in the next few steps. Good progress so far though!

Friday, April 10, 2020

Shattered Legions: Salamanders Tactical Squad Assembled

Given the Coronavirus, I've been tremendously busy with working from home recently. However, after the video conferences and telephone calls have ended, I have managed to squeeze in some hobby time here and there. Thus, I have been making progress on my Shattered Legions project.

Today is a component of that project: a 10 man Salamanders Legion tactical squad fully assembled and ready for priming and painting!


Each of the models is a bit of a kit bash. Some have components from Forge World, plastic bits and bobs from various marks of armour, and even chaos space marines. The reason for having such a diverse set of armour marks within a single squad is straight forward: this group of marines are Istvaan survivors. They have cobbled together what parts they could and re-purposed anything that they could find to fix and append what they already had. They are being hunted down across the wastelands and black sandy remains of the Urgall Depression. Yet they live, where many thousands of others have perished.

The back left marine shows one that is already painted up -- my initial experiment with the Salamanders Legion paint scheme that I'm going to be keeping and replicating (with embellishments) on the rest of the squad.

Hope that you're all fit and well folks. Keep safe in these unusual times.
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