I should mention off the bat, I’m in no way connected to the brand, or an “influencer” of any kind (*cough* not yet *cough*). I found the secret weapon in the form of a paint marker from legendary graffiti brand Molotow: the Liquid Chrome (20 Years Edition) Marker. The release of the new, slick Primaris Marines (which I still refuse to see as a new “species” of Marine, rather an up-sizing for sake of scale), was the perfect opportunity to try bring my vision to life. The 41st Millennium is a very dark and grimy place but I think that, somewhere out there, there would have to be a band of super radical, 80s neon-bright warriors taking down the enemies of the Emperor while glittering like a He-Man hero. There’s always been a little part of me screaming out for Space Marines that shine. I present to you: The Knights Resplendent The Knights Resplendent in their chromed out glory Witness Me! So I wanted to put together something of a tutorial/review for you all! I hope here I can answer some of the questions that have been flooding my way today. It’s really filled my bitter, grimdark heart with joy. Upon writing, the Instagram community have watched the short video I posted almost 18,000 times! Never before have I spent a whole day fielding questions and sending thanks. Yea, I definitely prefer those color ones, but this model is too big for them + I recently purchased a cheap but large "photo tent" so decided to use that.I’ve been absolutely blown away and humbled by the response to my recent hobby experiment. Too bad, but what can you do at this point :)Īlso, you might wonder WTF with the white background. I wanted an earth tone, but I only have a few pigments (mostly rust for my nurgle projects :) so I improvised by mixing a dark earth tone with some very light rust but in the end it looks more like rust than dusty earth. I did a similar treatment with those yellow stripes, so black scratches applied with a sponge, followed by a highlight of white with a dab of yellow.įinal step was adding pigment to the ramps. Well, obviously the deep metal scratches do so I did those, but I also tried some light black scratches, highlighted with rotting flesh and it turned out very nice, giving some 3D to the model.
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I had a difficult time (again), figuring out what kind of battle damage would look both realistic and visually appealing on such dark green color. As far as washes go, I've only used 3, namely nuln oil for metal parts, sepia for stripes and thrakka green in an airbrush over all the green parts. Masking/basecoating/highlighting with the airbrush. To be honest, that was the part that I've spent most of the time on. I can't really imagine doing all that stuff when the whole thing is assembled :) A lot of masking was used for various things like stripes, ramps and so on.
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Needless to say, I painted the model in parts. VA medium brown into khaki brown into light brown for dust It was quite similar to the rifledread but with some additional shenenigans so: OK! time for a quick runthrough of the paintjob.
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That's when I took some inspiration from the internet and figured that the yellow/black stripes will look totally awesome and provide a nice contrast to the overwhelming green. At first, I wanted to go the usual GW route with silver on those outside flaps/panels(?) and I did just that, but as it turned out, I couldn't quite do a nice smooth wash on them :O and the whole thing started to look too silvery anyway. My troops have been lacking trasport for a long time now, so it's high time that they finally got something! :) Before I get into the WIP details, I wanted to say a few words on the design for this thing.