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Greetings Terrans, how goes it? Well, it has been another glacially slow hobby period for me – not exactly idle such, but not much finished to show for it. I’ve been busily building, converting, basing and undercoating this little lot:

These are all the Primaris troops that I accumulated through Warhammer Conquest, and all are destined for my Primaris Legion of the Damned, ready for the new edition of 40k. Since finishing all the prep, I also managed to get some proper painting time in & came up with this squad:

I say squad – I’m assuming that they can be a squad because these dudes are all packing the assault-type ‘Auto Bolt Rifle’… because apparently there are three different types of Bolter now!! ☹
Unfortunately, I didn’t realise this with the first lot of LotD I built, so I have a bit of a hodge-podge of Bolter types to sort out down the road, but at least this little squad are ‘proper’. Here they are one by one:





Paint-wise, these are all really straight forward, with the free & messy paint style that I enjoy. I undercoat black, and then do a zenith blast of white followed by a heavy white drybrush. Armour is contrast black, leather is contrast snakebite, flesh is just washed in crimson. I add detail in pure white, and then stain with sepia, or with yellow & red depending on whether it’s bone or flame, (the flames are done wet & wet blended together). I then highlight these up a little with either bone or yellow, before I grubby up the armour with rust, virdigris, typhus corrosion, etc. Any bare skin is just highlighted up with Rakarth Flesh, and given some blue or purple wash in the recesses and to add veins etc. Pretty messy and fun! I can always do a tutorial if anyone is particularly interested.
Anyway, that’s it for this post – I’ll just be working through these guys for a while, so more LotD coming your way! Take it easy dudes – stay safe and all that.
Wow, you did a great job on these guys. The mostly gray scheme makes the well-done flames really pop.
Cheers Ann, totally agree, flame and bone on black is an awesome scheme – I can’t take credit for coming up with that, but boy, it’s fun to paint :-)
Stunning work.
Cheers,
Pete.
Cheers mate :-)
Oh man, nice to see you back on fire ! (excuse the pun)
Oh man, nice to see you back on fire ! (excuse the pun)
Ah, cheers mec – and sorry but no way can I excuse that pun… c’est terrible! :-)
those are lovely.
Cheers dude :-)
I know I’ve said it before but I really, really like what you’re doing with these. Where is the head from on the sergeant (the one who’s directing his troops/hailing a taxi/waving to his mum)? Fantastic work on his skin especially. Would be very keen to see that tutorial if you have time, I’ve been thinking of painting my own space marines’ skin in a similar style (Blood Angels successors + lurking around in crypts = terrible complexions).
And yeah, what’s going on with all the different kinds of bolters GW?! I do like the primaris marines aesthetically but I prefer the way the old tactical squads were structured, with most of them wielding bolters (good old-fashioned normal bolters), plus a couple of dudes with special weapons. It served us well for ten thousand years and I don’t fancy changing now!
Cheers mate, I’m having fun with them for sure! The head is just a regular Primaris head I think, but it’s hard to tell because I just mixed and matched bits… At the very most, he just had the hair shaved off :-)
I think I’ll do a tutorial when I next do a character… if nothing else, it’ll remind me how to paint the buggers after I inevitably get distracted by something else for months on end!!
Very nice Alex. Love the colour scheme and those flames really make each one pop on the plain dark base colour. My eye is drawn to them everytime. Great stuff mate and by the look of it you have plenty more to do and show us! 🤗
Cheers mate – it’s such a lovely scheme to paint, and works so well… I wish I could say I thought of it first!! :-)
I won’t tell anyone if you don’t. 😉
Very nice! :-) Dark and dangerous!
Cheers mate, that sums up LotD pretty much perfectly! 🔥💀🔥
Awesome stuff – tutorial? Yes please!
Cheers mate, will do :-)
They look super cool. I know the the Legion are a proper GW thing but the way you have the flames to break up the black armour is just perfect.
Cheers mate, I must admit, I do love the look of these :-)
Well, your ‘free & messy’ paintjob is kinda awesome! I love the whole thing, they look impressive!
Thanks dude, I’m really pleased with them :-)
These are really fantastic — I was instantly reminded of the Legion of the Damned model that was pictured in the materials accompanying the 40k 2nd edition boxed set (it must have been in the painting instructions, I guess?!) and how fascinated I was with that guy. They also work really well as a group.
A special shout out must go to the sergeant, because I am getting such “Sergeant Centurius” vibes from the model! If I have one complaint, it’s that I think you should have converted the helmet mag-locked to his hip so it has a skull faceplate. Apart from that, fantastic work all around!
Cheers mate, glad you like ’em! I do actually have a Centurius conversion in mind using the new Indomitus Chaplain ;-)
Soooooo bloody cool man.
Cheers dude 😊
Amazing work Alex, the zenithal and dry brushing really set you up here, and the flames and weathering are superb. Glad to see you back on the hobby horse.
Cheers dude & good to be back to something approaching normal 😊