Damn! I got paint on my figure!

After a couple of years it's been interesting to pick up a brush and start painting my test Skitarri Vanguard. I'd completely forgotten how many decisions there are when starting a new army!

The following pictures show very much a wip paint scheme. 

Essentially the army has to tie in to my Khorne army paint scheme whilst also remaining true to a Mechanicus paint scheme for Stygies VIII. This is where the limited palette of reds, silvers and blacks come in. 

The main colour is black for Stygies and I've then given the cloak a couple of washes with Nuln Oil to give a more jaded look. The armour was Khorne Red but I didn't like it so then opted for Leadbelcher to match the bionic limbs: this will then be washed with Sepia and Crimson to bring out a dark rust look which will then match my Khorne army.

The cloth under suit was the one thing that I painted last night and then spent all day considering it because something wasn't sitting right. Last night the trousers and gloves were dark grey (Fang) and tonight they are Khorne Red. I realised today that grey is a blue based colour which of course is on the wrong colour wheel for the warm reds. That's why it was jarring. Honest. 

The Radium carbine has a red/orange power source that will differentiate it from my Plasma (green) and Arc (blue) weapons.

And the annoying joins on either side of the cloak are not that obvious at the usual table top height in normal lighting: they are a pain in the backside though... :)

Need to finish this now, complete some highlighting and washing before I sit back and decide more changes are needed!!

Look at the Size of my Gun!

Another successful weekend of hobbying in that last week's efforts have been undercoated; and yes swirling winds do make spraying a little tricky. 

And the Ranger squad are built!

These guys don't necessarily fit the Khorne doctrine of get close and personal so I'll come up with something suitable later. You get 1 of each of the 3 special weapons per box (Plasma, Arc Rifle and Arquebus) and since I have 3 boxes of Skitarri it meant I had 3 Arquebus all sat there waiting to be used....

I hate to disappoint big guns so my Ranger unit was born. The chap in charge (Alpha) also has a rifle as giving him a pistol and combat weapon seems a waste on a unit with 30" and 60" range guns. If these get in to combat then something has screwed up. I expect they'll end up in combat in their first battle knowing my luck!!

I really like the fact these guns are sooooo long that they need a stand to hold them in place.

Just for the record these boys are BS4 (not counting their doctrines) and the rifle held by 7 of them is a 30" Rapid Fire, Precision Shot, Str4 AP4 thing. The Arquebus is a 60" Heavy1, Armourbane, AP3 Sniper rifle. Oh and these boys are relentless so that Heavy1 doesn't matter.

Next up: Building a Dunecrawler Walker and starting to paint the test Vanguard figure.

And more importantly: I'm having a lot of fun again!