The Horus Hersey – The Primarchs
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About the Project
Well, after the enjoyment that has been my Chaos All Star Blood Bowl project, I needed something else to fill my time as I await more Blood Bowl Chaos players to be released or arrive. So with that in mind I decided to start collecting and painting another series of individual models. In this case the Horus Hersey Primarchs......
Related Game: Warhammer: The Horus Heresy
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
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Honestly - pull yourself together!
The last time I updated this was the 6th September, and since then I have done precisely nothing with this project.
However, I just ordered two 3rd Daemon Primarchs off ETSY.
Lorgar and Perturabo – why do I do this too myself!?!
CURSE YOU GOD (Emperor) FOR MAKING ME THIS WAY!!!*
* Paraphrasing Konrad Curze here.
More
Right, with the news of Fulgrim getting another model, I happened to be near Warhammer World at the weekend, so I bought some things….
Jaghatai Khan – which now means I have a representation of all 18 Primarchs.
However, I do own Angron twice (30k and 40k) and I will be buying Fulgrim again, so with that in mind I also bought HH Mortarion.
Which means I need to buy HH Magnus and HH Gulliman and Horus Ascended and 40k The Lion just to be a total mad completist!
Current state of play on these:
The Lion – need to finish his scenic Base.
Alpharius – also need to finish his scenic base.
Corax – need to do a few corrections on him and also need to finish his scenic base.
Angron (40k) – need to finish his base.
The Khan and HH Mortarian – need to start them!
UPDATE
I have began work on painting a Konrad Curze bust, so no real progress on this, apart from looking at colour schemes for 30K Mortarian.
Two popular ones at the moment.
Undercoat him in Wraithbone, sephiam sepia him up then paint screaming skull over his armour….or undercoat him in Grey Seer, then wash all of his armour panels with Mortarian Grime, and a touch of SS in places.
Hmmmm, decisions decisions.
Fulgrim Transfigured
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/08/31/nova-open-previews-the-phoenecian-transformed/
Right then….as mentioned on the news article on here, this fella is going to be expensive.
But, as we are already so far deep in this, let’s be honest I will be buying him!
UPDATE
Saw this lad at Warhammer World – he isn’t actually that big (apart from the wings) and at £175 is actually cheaper than I expected. I think this is a new year purchase!
Corvus Corax
So, I bought Corvus Corax last June when I picked up Ka Bhanda.
Since then, I have been working on KB, Angron, and various Blood Bowl star players and a secret set of miniatures I might add on he as a project (although there are so many of them it will take me an age just uploading the pictures!).
Anyway, Corvus, the Forgeworld painting of this I think its let down by the fact they paint him with a normal skin tone, must of the stuff I have read Corvus (Like his Raven Guard) is described as being alabaster white.
So, I did that.
Skin
Corax White, Apothecary White 50/50 mix with water, dry brushed with Corax White and White Scar. I then thinned down some Volpus Pink contrast and ran this over his eyes, lips and cheeks – may give this another pass.
Armour
Corvus Black, Nuln Oil, Corvus Black. Again I may need to do something with this to pick out the edges – I tried using Dawnstone but it looked to much.
Silver
Iron Hands Steel, Nuln Oil, Runefang steel, stormhost silver.
I then ran some Gyph Charger grey over the wing blades, and the icon on his left shoulder.
I think a brighter base will make him stand out a bit more.
Angron Daemon Primarch
Just when you thought you were out they drag you back in….
this guy is clearly going to come in around the £150 mark.
My word.
It’s glorious however. The only thing I think GW do badly when it comes to this sort of model is the face. Felt the same about Bel’akor and the huge Bloodthirster that is coming from Forgeworld for the HH.
I will be getting Angron when he drops – it might encourage me to finish this project and actually buy the Khan and Corax as well!
Not a lot to say on this fella from a tutoring point of view.
I largely followed the Warhipster’s painting tutorial on YouTube and the Warhammer TV one.
I based him with Mephiston Red spray (as I had bought one to paint some Blood Angel Marines from the Indomitus box set).
The only other main differences to my approach were the armour and the sword.
The armour is rune lord brass, agrax earthshade, then berserker blood shade with a 50/50 mix with water. Dry brushed with Iron Breaker.
The sword however I kinda went rogue and did my own thing.
Painted it with Iron Warriors, and then I kinda washed it with Black Templar (50/50 mix with water). I did this about 4 times, I really wanted the sword to look like a flat black old metal. I then gave it a light dry brush with Iron warriors.
The handle I only gave a light going over with Black Templar.
The flame effect in the middle – is kind of a hodge podge of the Warhammer TV approach, and then again a little bit more.
Painted the skull bit in the middle of the blade with Corax White. Painted this over with a very wet Dorn Yellow, then Fire Dragon Bright around the edge, then finally Evil Sunz Scarlet.
This has worked on the side facing out but I think the Evil Sunz Scarlet was a bit to watery on the inside edge as its settled in the recesses rather than just the edge. May give this another go.
Group Shot
Been trying to get all of these fellas into one picture for awhile now just so I can see for myself more than anything how much real estate these take up, and bask in the amount of wasted hours painting these!
It’s got to be literally months!
To be fair Lorgar we painted in a day – and he has still been one of my favourites to do – even though the whole thing is his fault…
I digress, here they are all struggling to fit into the frame.
(Vulkan still not done yet, I know i said I would get him painted this week, but I got distracted by Blood Bowl star players…)
Deep breath.
