Luna Wolves Reborn a.k.a. Cawl's personal Guard - by Bothi

As said in the project description I decided to paint my Primaris Marines from the Dark Imperium Boxset as Luna Wolves. As I consider myself to be a speed painter (70% focus on speed, 30% on a good tabletop result) the first question I asked myself was:

• How much time do I want to invest?

Directly followed by:

• What new techniques I want to try?

The answer to first question was quite arbitrary. 1h per Marine is ok, but no more than 2h per Marine. This should be from priming to the finished marine. So with coating, base riming and flocking.

The second question was a bit harder. I just had seen the tutorial by John here on Beasts of War, where he used a zenithing method to paint the Star Wars Legion Stormtroopers. Stormtroopers are white too. John used a rattle can to prime the troopers Uniform Grey and then used his airbrush to put some white on them in an angle. So they were white models, but hat some grey shading on them already. Problem is I have no airbrush. So I decided to try to replicate the method with two rattle cans. Uniform Grey and White. As I never zenithed before, I’ll consider this as the first new technique I am gonna use.

The second new technique was based on the problem that the Primaris Marines had no insignia on them. They where supplied with a decal sheet for the most famous loyal legions like Space Wolves, Dark Angels, Smurfs, etc. But obviously no Luna Wolves. So I had three options. Buy some extra shoulder pads with Luna Wolves insignia. Free hand the s**t out of it. Or print my own decals. This decision was easy:

• As the shoulder pads of Primaris Marines from the Dark Imperium box are no more single bits like the marines in the past (they are part of the arm or the body now) I would have to do a lot of clipping work to get other shoulder pads on them. -> not doing it
• I suck at freehanding. -> need to get better at that sometime, but not now
• Ok printing my own decals it is 😀

The third new technique isn’t actually a technique. I am using some kind of AP dip (solvent based from the huge 250ml can) on nearly everything I paint these days. But I guess it would be to strong on just white. So no dipping this time. Which is actually quite new for me.

So I had my 3 more or less new techniques to try. A great theme. And a lot of motivation. On to the first prototype!