Overall I’m very happy with the Necron lads I’ve finished up to this point, and I’m eager to paint the rest of the box! The Gathering Storm I and Shield of Baal campaign books from late 7th edition both feature Necrons in key roles working with the Imperium to protect key worlds from threats that they’d rather not deal with themselves. In Gather Storm, Trazyn works with Cawl and Imperial forces to stop Abaddon and in Shield of Baal Anrakyr works with the Blood Angels and the Mephrit dynasty to fend off a Tyranid invasion. The thing to remember is that, during and before the Horus Heresy, the Space Marine Legions were enormous, spread all across the galaxy with hundreds of thousands of Marines. Each individual Space Marine company could have its own color scheme just based on heraldry. They could have their own color scheme based on the fact that the supply chain was bad and they had to do the best with what they could. They could have their own color scheme if they were veterans of a specific battle and wanted to commemorate it. All of these and more are reasons why the Space Marines could look different from the “official” version and still be canonical. In Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition: Winds of Magic the Amulet of Sea Gold is described as having been found by Gelt in the ruins of an Elven colony on the coast of Ulthuan and not in Elven colonial ruins in Estalia. This is an error, as Ulthuan is the homeland of the High Elves, and thus no colonies were built there. [4b] Sources [ ]

For eyes, a simple OSL is achieved by first using a thinned Moot Green in the recessess of the eyes and allowed to dry. Once that’s done, use that same 3:1 ratio of Moot Green and Yriel Yellow to paint the eyes. I then like to mix some white into this mixture to make the eyes really stand out as the light source.The metal skeleton is the first step. Simply prime then wash the models. I primed my Necrons with Bare Metal Primer from Ammo by MIG and then washed them with 2 coats of Nuln Oil, letting each coat fully dry before proceeding to the next step. The skeleton should be very dark following 2 directly coats of Nuln Oil. Following this the entire skeleton gets a drybrush of Necron Compound, starting from the top and only brushing straight down.

You can literally do anything you want with your Horus Heresy Space Marines. But Isn’t The Horus Heresy the Warhammer Version of a Historical Game? Jokes aside, Night Lords are my fave traitor legion. Their lore is great and the concept of various warbands of these major screw ups roving around the galaxy is great for creating your very own group of deluded murderers. There is also an element of Kurze totally and utterly failing his sons on every level, dooming them to their current tragedy of an existence that I personally enjoy.Right, so with a new project, I decided to mix it up and try some with a Metallic undercoat and some with Grey Seer Undercoat. After that, I experimented with Contrast Iyanden Yellow versus T aimiya Gold Leaf and Retributor Gold to see what I liked best. Brush-On Primer: A medium grey paint that can be applied as a primer over bare metal and plastic. The consistency of the primer is nice, it goes smoothly on models and doesn’t drip off like some thinner brush-on primers. The durability can’t match a spray primer of course. Edge highlight with pure Citadel Deepkin Flesh. On character models you can go even further, and add in a little Citadel White Scar to the Deepkin Flesh to do reflex highlights.

And take the Traitor Legions. The further they got into the Heresy, the further they became corrupted by Chaos. Their beautiful armor was not always going to stay the same color as the Death Guard gave over to the corruption of Nurgle, for example. They would be just as likely to have tentacles toward the end of the Heresy as Warhammer 40k Death Guard do now. I started the army up around the time of the 8th Edition codex release – it was just getting to the point where I was bored of using my Eldar at club nights and starting to do enough events that I thought having a second army to use would be a good idea. I also, bluntly, thought they would be pretty easy to paint, and selected the Sautekh scheme for my army because it was super simple. That did, basically, turn out to be true, but ironically the process of working on this army (plus some other projects I was doing in parallel) was enough of a level-up moment for my painting ability that by the end I was looking for ways to add a bit of flair rather than keep things easy!

Tie the whole ‘many-heads-one-body’ look together with this set of 10 embossed resin shoulder pads for your MKVI Tactical Marines, each showing the profane Hydra iconography of the Alpha Legion.