Warhammer 40k (2) - Primaris Eradicators

 Fresh off the heels of last post, I've actually gone ahead and "finished" my first unit. I put finished in quotes as I will almost definitely go back and add decals at some point but I am out of decal setting solution at the moment. 

For this first unit I'm going to walk through more or less step by step to sort of illustrate what (very roughly) goes into something like this. 

 

 

First, before anything, I sat down and got out the kit I'd be building. These are actually push fit models and for the most part really didn't need any glue. There was one part where I opted to chop the peg off and glue the parts together for a better, more flush, fit but in general, you can build these without glue.

 There's some rather interesting use of engineering here where things like guns connect to knee pads

You can see one completed marine here.

 

The bases that come in this size, come with two holes to insert the peg on the feet into, but only one foot peg. As a result the bases each come with a little "topper" to fill the other hole. This looked odd to me at first as they all sit in sort of the same position but I felt it was fine on the finished paint job.

 The last time I painted Ultramarines was probably when I started the hobby with the battle of Macragge starter box. I gathered a few paints and set to trying to get samples.

 In the end I settled on the middle of the three, AK interactive Dark Blue. I like the coverage of it, and the GW paint but found the dropper bottle a little more alluring for painting a whole army. I suppose in theory I may add a vehicle at some point and the idea of airbrushing GW paint isnt appealing to me.

 I slapped paint all over the model, not worrying about neatness in any capacity. I used an old weathered brush for this that I didn't mind ruining and just went to town. I then gave the model a super quick rough dry brush of AK 3g Ducat Blue, just to catch some edges.

 Next was picking out details in Gold (AK Gold), Silver (AK Gunmetal), Black (AK Tenebrous Grey) and Purity seals with Wine Red and Vampiric Flesh. I did the brass of the shells with AK Copper

 

The next step was an all over wash with marine juice. This is a mix of various washes in various colors and viscosities designed to act as an all over shade to speed up painting.

 

 While this dried, I set to work on the bases. For this, I used vallejo paste. I pulled the pushfit figures oiut of their bases to make this easier. They were painted with my standard recipe of Black Grey (vallejo), and then drybrushed with two lighter greys. 

 

 Once everything dried, i reassembled and wrote this. Total time in on these was a little under an 2 and a half hours. I was mulling it over on the drive to work and I think the total supplies cost for this (not counting all the blue test colors) was in the vicinity of 150. I only note it here for posterity as these paints will be used for a lot more than this project and I've had things like my sprue cutters for the better part of ten years at this point.

 

 

 You can see a sneak peek of whats next here obviously but for the next armageddon post, it will be more showcase and less tutorial.