Tales of a hobby butterfly

The last couple of weeks the butterfly has landed squarely on the horus heresy.

Last year I printed load of marines and shoulder pads for the plastic chaps as well as reconditioned an old broken rogue trader landraider. Then put them in a Box, now it’s time to get some paint on them

I wanted a quick and easy scheme so after lots of Web surfing I followed the mid winter minis tutorial.

Base them in black, cover in vallejo royal purple, dry brush with royal purple mixed 50/50 with said pink then paint light grey on tubes and leg wrinkly bits, dark metal on the weapons, paint the gold bits. Paint the base khaki, once dry cover everything in a 50/50 mix of army painter strong tone and water then leave over night to dry.

The final bits to do are to edge highlite with squid pink, some bright silver to highlite the gold, dry brush the base with khaki then ushabti bone, paint the base edge black and bam job done

This model had been through the wars the last cannons were broken off so I had to pin them and stick them back on, there was a big hole in the side so I stuck some card on the inside then skimed with milliput, the front had a bit missing and had glue damage so I put a plasticard cover over it, this looked a bit plain for the emperors children.

After looking through the horus heresy art book for inspiration I thought a swish shiny eagle would look good on the front as in the fluff I think that  they are the only chapter that can  wear it at that time.

To start I made the basic shape with thin card then stuck it on the front. The symbol was then built up a layer at a time with fine white milliput and lots of swearing when I squishe it multiple times with my clumsy ham fists