The Forgotten - Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Project

Whether for good or ill, I decided to try and paint my way through an entire unit of Assault Intercessors in an afternoon and an evening. The idea was that I would need to do this before I lost interest in the project and left it on the pile of potential.

The process for the miniatures was pretty simple. These plastic kits go together quickly once you’ve got your eye in and I also added some skulls from the Skulls kit that Games Workshop do for terrain, kitbashing and the like.

Painting-wise, the idea was to make it quick. So, it was a lot of drybrushing over black followed by picking out details with gold, green, red and such here and there.

After about 8 hours, the miniatures looked like this.

After this step where the Agrax Earthshade had gone on followed by some rust and such, the ground was made muddy and there was just the need to wait for things to dry.

The thinking process for the whole project is that this can be quickly achieved and look decent. PLUS, I can always go back to the miniatures when I want to get more detail on to them or have different ideas.

Speaking of finished, here are some of the “finished” Space Marines with the extra couple of hours work. There was a drybrush applied to the bone and the dirt was tided up (or added) to the bases and boots/greaves.

The few things missing here would be on just making them pop a little more. So, there are going to be Skull transfers added to the halved shoulder pads (green and red) to match the theme.

I will also revisit the bases and add some tufts and other bits of vegetation on there so it doesn’t look like they are fighting through a muddy World War I-esque battlefield. But, the “finished” look has created some pretty dynamic (and importantly) quick Space Marines for the tabletop.