23rd Steel Legion Regiment - for Epic Armageddon

So, after doing the metals I went for some blue in the viewports and decided the big bombard howitzer needed some sort of rust effect in the recesses, to break up the blue black. I did this last one with heavy rust and medium rust paint by Ammo of Mig.

Afterwards I painted in some markings in red and white text (the red is for a dropped uppercase letter) – the text is simpley some  straight horizontal lines to represent something that’s written down.

I went on to freehanded some numbers on my vehicles. I’m numbering the support vehicles in a sequential manner, beginning at numbers 11, IIRC. In either case, these are numbers 29-31.

The numbers may have to be different in the future. I may have overhighlighted the tanks and the upper portion is perhaps to light. I therefore painted the numbers in white and then went in again with a black lining in the interior portion.

I also did some recognition markings, which I usually do on the front side of the vehicles. Simply paint it white, then go in with any red and paint a red line and widen it a little bit on a few further passes.

Whilst I was with the red paint on the brush, I decided it was a good idea to paint some red lights here and there.

The tracks were a simple case of Doombull brown, followed by a stipple wash of agrax earthshade. Matt varnish and done!

And the Shadowsword took much the same approach as the other vehicles. The main difference is here I tend to go a little bit more overboard with turning it into a book for guardsmen to read while they’re def… advancing!

I painted the headlights with some green and highlighted it and the engine exhausts were painted doombull brown (GW), then highlighted up with red and orange.

The black on my vehicles has

1. a base tone of Secret Weapon’s Tire Black, which is a fantastic color (though it does take 3-4 thin coats to go in solidly)
2. and is then highlighted up mixing in Secret Weapon’s Rubber Highlight
3. and then P3’s Frostbite.

The treads on the Shadowsword are

1. Ammo by Mig’s Gun Metal:Silver (1:1)
2. Stipple wash with Reikland Fleshshade (GW)
3. Stipple wash with Agrax Earthshade (GW)

The hardest thing to do, as I’ve never done it, was freehanding the scroll design with the “Victorum” name tag for the vehicle. I started the scroll by following more or less this video’s tips: https://youtu.be/5wLxu_JxnLs?t=83 and then went in with a Series 7 000 brush and wrote in the thing. You have to have thinned down paint to do this. I decided to paint in the letters V and M first, to delineate the ends of the word, then the middle “TO” and then went for the rest. Should you mess up the letters, just paint it over and do it again (I had to do it 4 times…)

And that’s these boys done and 450 more points to my force (200 for the Shadowsword and 250 for the Bombards)

Next up will come the rides for 2 of the infantry companies 🙂