Base formulation for World Eaters

So. Starting off with 10 guys plus a character. The character is intended to be an Armistos.

This is only for the bodies, I shall be doing the arms, backpacks, weapons, and shoulder pads separate. 

All of these guys will be armed with Volkite Culverin.

Step 01. Prime bodies + heads with Tamiya Light Grey.

Step 02. First coat of white. Specifically, Insignia White airbrush by Vallejo Air. This coats everything. The first thin coat goes all over.

Step 03. The second thin coat of Insignia White, once the first is dried properly, comes from above and left. Coat the left side of the bodies as that is the direction of light that I'm using. Ensure that there is no real gapping or grey showing through.

Step 04. First thin coat on the right side and from below. White Grey, again Vallego Air. Ensure proper coverage and allow time for previous coats to dry. This will allow a proper coverage and let everything get situated. Also will provide small contrast to the other white for the "darker" side.

Step 04. Highlight spots where shade would fall with shin layer of Pale Blue Grey, Vallejo Air. This goes into the darkest recesses and areas where the least light would show. Be careful with this as to much can overtake the work already done.

Step 05. Seal all work at this point. Gloss varnish, again, Vallejo brand.

Step 06. Apply glaze of 50% gloss black wash and water, mixed 1:1 with gloss varnish. Wash all the white area. This will allow shadows and highlights to spread, and will prevent it from pooling due to the extra gloss levels.

Step 07. Chipping. Using a sponge, apply GW Chaos Black in stippling across the entire miniature. If it gets too heavy, don't worry, it'll clear up later.

Step 08. More Chipping. Using a different sponge, or the same if you don't care, stipple GW Leadbelcher across the armor panels. Hit the sharp edges as those areas will obviously see more wear. Again, don't worry about being too heavy.

Step 09. After everything is dry, hit the knee pads with Vallejo Blue from model air. This is somewhat transparent, it may require a second coat once the first is dry for proper coverage.

Step 10. Areas where the legs meet the crotch guard where there is the rubber looking gasket appearing ripples, apply Vallejo's Nato Black from model air.

Step 11. Hit all ornamental metals (buckles, armor trim) with Warplock Bronze from GW.

Step 12. Hit all ornamental metals with a layer of Vallejo Copper again from model air. Be careful on this step not to get too much off the specifics.

Step 13. Highlight the ornamental metals with Vallejo Bright Brass from model air. Again, be careful.

Step 14. Touch each of the ornamental metals with Minitaire Ghost Tint brown. This will wash the brass down and give it a red gold tint. Be especially careful on this step.

Step 15. All non ornamental metals get a layer of GW Leadbelcher.

Step 16. All non ornamental metals get a highlight brush of Vallejo Steel from model air.

Step 17. Apply gloss varnish. Allow to dry then apply Waywatcher Green Glaze from GW to the eyes. Repeat as needed to reach desired green level on the eyes.


Images will come once I get them all taken.

Premise

My name is Duncan.

I play the Horus Heresy series of games. And by series, I mean pretty much I play 30k and not much else since I haven't gotten into Adeptus Titanicus. So, this blog is going to be a work progress blog for me as I go on getting my hobby on.

A little about myself first, I have several 30k armies that I'll do various posts and pictures of along with some of the work in progress pictures of the stuff I'm working on currently.

I own close to 10,000 points of Iron Warriors, my first really completed Warhammer 40k army, and since I built them to look preheresy style, also my initial 30k army. I decided a long time back that I didn't really enjoy much of the more modern aesthetic that 40k was going into as the game slowly evolved. So I decided to create a throwback army. Which I did, and given my paint skills at the time (years back now) I was pretty happy with how it all turned out. While I'm not unhappy with how it all turned out as a whole, it has theme and style, I decided about a year ago (mid 2018) that I wanted to take paint classes and get better.

So I did, I took a Mat Kane painting class in the fall of 2018, and it opened my eyes. I learned how to properly use my airbrush that I had used to paint up nearly 3k of Blood Angels as a different army. Sadly, after taking the class and learning stuff I never knew, I looked back at the Blood Angels and the Iron Warriors and I was sad at how they looked compared to what I felt I could create. So, I decided to do a Sons of Horus army.

 That army looks many levels better than either the Iron Warriors or Blood Angels do.

I did approximately 3500 points of Sons of Horus, and I'm for the most part satisfied with the army and where it is. Do I want to paint and build more for it/them? Sure. But I don't really feel like painting more Sons of Horus right now. So instead, I have embarked on a new adventure in 30k.

World Eaters.

Painting white is often a challenge, and to be honest, I've never done it well. So, rather than do it poorly, I'm going to start the army and see how well I do. I'll post changes and pictures and theories and everything else I feel I want to post on here along with previous pictures showing the differences between the various armies. I don't intend to post daily, but I intend to post a few times a week if possible. Eventually, I hope to get all my finished miniatures posted up here for people to see and ignore because it's not on Facebook.

Also, props to whoever owns the below link. I'm stealing a tiny bit of his technique. Not a lot of it, but some.

http://wilhelminiatures.blogspot.com/2015/03/tutorial-heresy-era-world-eater.html

Enjoy.