A few years ago, maybe over half a decade, I got the WH40K Dark Vengeance box. I didn’t know what I wanted to paint the armies, I just knew I wasn’t going to do the ‘official’ colours. Painting the Chaos force turned out to be easy, Purple armour, gold trim, and green shoulder pads and guns. But the Dark Angels, oh my poor sweet Dark Angels…

First I painted them in red armour with blue, to contrast with the colours my the Chaos Marines, but they looked more like Blood Angels. Then I tried to paint them all in bone, like the Deathwing. God oh god, that was a horrible, horrible mistake. There are no photos of that dark time and with good reason. I hated the job so much I damaged my sergeant trying to strip him (didn’t know about methylated spirits yet). Finally, I just gave up and covered them all dark blue and yellow. I didn’t like it, but I didn’t hate it either. I just called them done and dumped them in the box and forgot about them.

Then a few days ago I saw this Silver Skulls video. And it reminded me of a successor chapter in the DA book that looked similar. Now a smart man would have reminded himself that he was still finishing the Stormcast from the Soul Wars set, and hasn’t even started on the Nighthaunts from that set, and still hasn’t finished the Kharadron guy with the top hat or the one group of gunstock haulers. A smart man would have remembered the last thing he needs to do is try to repaint a force already made obsolete by the Primaris filth.

Anyways here’s a test of my new DA scheme. The blue guy is what the force is mostly painted, the silver guy is a test model I did before supper, without any real highlights.