CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
Long time to paint one mini...
Almost 2 months since my last post…that’s longer than I thought it was… Anyway, moving problems and just general burnout and other issues finally subsided enough for me to get something done. It technically hasn’t taken me 2 months to paint one mini…but I have been working on this group for almost a month-ish. Efficiency!
Anyway, there was a bit of a ‘sell off your spares’ thingy at my FLGS in early July and I managed to snag 5 Assault Intercessors for a damn good price and they were already primed, too. Had to do one head fix because the pose was just awful, and they were primed white instead of my typical blue, but it was a VERY good price. Basecoating Marine armour is not something I’ve done for a while with a brush, though, so that stage just took a long time. I decided, though, that following my additions of heraldry on many of my minis I also wanted to take the idea of individualism that little bit further and took a bit of inspiration from the Clone Wars series. If they can make literal clones of the same man look like individuals, then I could do it with Marines.
I did this with red panels in various places across the armour and chose the (Marine's) right greave on the Sergeant. Going with red means that I can keep the company colours the same while still adding some individual flare to the armour.
I also added a red strip to the casing on his chainsword just to add a little more personal flare, though this I'm keeping with the Sergeant. I did think of adding the white stripe of a Veteran Sergeant, but I'm saving that for rewards if the squad does well in a game...because I will be able to play games again eventually...right?
The tilting shield here has some obvious influences that I wanted to go for. Sadly I had no dragon transfers lying around, but I think the red sword works quite nicely and still gives the right feel for the design. It's also a very nice contrast to the rest of the mini.
And the traditional Lloyd Shot.I did say I got a squad of them…and I did start them at the same time, but I’m not very good at batch painting and just decided to steam on with the Sergeant. But the others are coming too…slowly. I also apologise for the lighting in the pictures, but that’s a bit downside of living in a basement. I really wish I could have got a proper student house, but you get what you can find these days. Anyway, here’s the proof of the others, and hopefully I can get them done over the next week or so.
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