You can click the links below or the webstore banners on the site.Įlement Games (get double element crystals using code DAV615), and The Outpost.UPDATE: After three years and lots of positive feedback, this guide has been superseded by a new version, available to buy as a PDF download in the shop. It doesn’t cost you anything, I just get a little commission which helps pay the WordPress fees etc. If you’d like to support the blog, please consider making your own hobby purchases through one of the affiliate links. Thanks for reading – here is the usual affiliated links paragraph. I’ll the save that image to the next post hopefully with a complete tactical squad to be transported. I tried to make sure that the pristine white of the decals was stained buy the oil wash to make the white look dirty and worn. Although the tracks and red panels also had a brown oil wash too. The key on the side is from GreenStuffWorld’s Heraldry Decal set.Īfter the decals a black oil wash was applied all over. The checks on the top are from Microscale Decals and are 1/8″ Wide White Checkers. Here i used a way too small number ’10’ from the GW Indomitus boxed set, in hind sight I wish I had placed this on the side doors. The tank then had a gloss varnish to allow decals to be added. The tracks were painted VMA German Grey, then had a dry brush of VMA Gun Metal, and a some VMC Mahogany Brown splodged on (heavily stippled?). The red hexagamatron and the sword handle/wing edges were painted GW Mephiston Red with a highlight of VGA Bloody Red (I should probably add a very tiny highlight of ice yellow too).
The same process as the tactical marines DA logo was used on the iconography on the front of the tank, but this time including some Scale 75 Necro Gold and VMA gun metal plus a little white added for a highlight. The yellow was also used on the red panels and bolters.
Having had the same paints used to highlight the green armour, Arphen Jade and Ice Yellow. The Aion Advancer made some significant progress too. I now attempted to do the same freehand on all the remaining pads.
On my test mini i messed up the shoulder decal, and ended up free handing a tactical marking. With the pads and bolters in place I hit the models with a gloss varnish in preparation for a black oil wash. Finally a pure white highlight is added, VMA White.The symbol is highlighted with VMA White Grey.A medium grey, VMA US Blue Grey is carefully applied blocking in most of the logo, but leaving a good border of dark grey around the edge and any deep recesses.
Logo based in a dark grey, VMA German Grey, paying particular attention to the edge of the symbol to provide a good border between the white of the logo and the red of the shoulder pad.I quite like how they look at this stage, except that they aren’t black enough for me here for what I am aiming for with the Dark Angels.īefore I glued the shoulder pads in place I finished off the white Dark Angel logo. While the highlights on the armour were applied with Scale 75 Arphen Jade, followed by VMC Ice Yellow. The tactical squad had all the trim and various gubbins painted VMA Gun Metallic. As I mentioned in my previous post, I managed to grab some hobby time on Sunday to continue painting the tactical squad and Aion Advancer.