Mage’s Mantis Warriors – Updated 15/02/20 HQ Librarian Completed
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About the Project
This is another Space Marine project log of mine! How original! These are Mantis Warriors, secessionists from the Badab War who allied with the Astral Claws but inevitably lost but were found to be redeemable and sent on a penitient crusade.
Related Game: Warhammer 40,000
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Entry 4: Eye Lenses
Below is something quick and lazy, once again, but it gets effective results in no time.
If you wanted to make the model pop you could highlight it after the Purple Tone by using Mephiston Red and Wildrider Red. I did not take a picture of each stage.
Entry 3: Bike Light
Another short and sweet tutorial. A quick note:
I use older paints and still have them stocked up. If you do not have Macharius Orange use the current paint, Troll Slayer Orange.
Do two thin coats of Macharius Orannge
Do one thin coat of Seraphim Sepia. Do not use Soft Tone from the army painter, it wont look as good.Entry 2: Bike Saddle Tutorial
By highlighting the armour a lot, using drybrushing, and weathering I have found that I can be sparse and lazy with highlights to ‘kind of speed paint’ and cut corners without it impacting the collection. It also has the added effect of letting you come back to details or having the effect of a fully painted army offsetting two more stages of highlights that will eat into your time.
This is a short and sweet bike seat tutorial. I did not do a good job filing or gap filling the saddle as a rider will be obscuring it later.
Paint two thin coats of Steel Legion Drab onto the seat
Give it a heavy wash of Army Painter Strong Tone from a dropper bottle. If you do not have this, use Agrax Earthshade but do two thin ish coats.Entry 1: Mantis Warrior Power Armour Tutorial
To begin with:
(1) Assemble the Bikes but do not attach the riders
(2) Do not attach the riders
(3) Blue tac the riders on a separate base to the bike
(4) Do the same with the combat knives and arms. If the biker has a weapon in one hand and is not holding onto the bike then attach it to the rider
(5) Prime and paint everything separately
(6) Glue everything together, painted, when priming.
(7) Prime models with Chaos Black.
Drybrush the model twice with Waaagh Flesh
Drybrush the model twice with Gretchin Green, Death Guard Green or Deathworld Forest
Wash the model with Bile Tan Green citadel Shade
Drybrush the model as per step 4 once more
Give the model one more drubrush with Ogryn Camo
