Primaris Knight of the Chalice - HQ

Back from holidays, time to present you the pride and joy of my legion and reaper of glorious deeds on the battlefield, the HQ!

You have to use your imagination and please don't think they eat the dust almost every game, no for real 😅

Captain Beshop in gravis armour

Let's start with the captain in gravis armour, who's also my chapter master, leader of the host of angels, Captain Beshop of the 2nd company!

The conversion is based on the gravis captain from dark imperium, to make him more impressiv and follow the little fluff we have in the blood angels codex, I added some wings and an axe from the sanguinary guard kit and a reaver head.

The result is an imposing warrior which exult aggression (I think so though, feel free to disagree, mistakes are human 😝).

The painting is the same as the first few intercessors, I just took more times for the details and stuff considering his rank.

I had a blast painting the power weapon, choosing a greenish-blue to contrast with the red of the armour and adding small blue lightning around the energy cells to give a nice osl.

The basecoat is arphen jade scale 75 highlighted with emerald from vallejo then add some white, shaded with black only, all brush since I was too lazy to take out the airbrush again.
The lightning is painted with marine blue ink glaze and the lightning are drawn with white and blending in the basecoat with

If you look really closely, you should be able to see his red eyes representing him fighting the red thirst.

On the battlefield, I play him using the power axe profile, nobody mind since the axe is usually worst 
than the sword.

I present this guy first but, I painted him after the two lieutenants that follows.

Lieutenants with power sword and master bolter

Next are the lieutenant from dark imperium also, minor conversion for theses, I just added the little bling on the backpack to make them easier to see on the battlefield, we're no alpha legion, we don't hide !

Nothing special on them, I'll present how I paint my faces in another article though this one was really fun to do. I added a white stripe on them to represent their rank.

Really cool miniature considering it's a boxed set, the only thing I don't really like is the captain bolter gloves which look a bit bland considering the gauntlet of the aggressors squad.

Thanks for reading and see you next time!

Anamnesis

Primaris Knight of the Chalice - Intercessors squad

Hello again,

You may have seen the tutorial to make the base but I didn't present the army on top of it.

Following the release of 8th edition of 40k and specifically the primaris marine, I've been totally hooked by the new kids on the block.

The sculpt are really simple, proportion are better, I'm just a fan.

I've been working on this army since september 2017, I'm closing on 1000 points at the time of this article.

I'll start with the mini that started it all, the free intercessor in the magazine "starting with 40k".

I painted this guy trying to find a scheme which would be easy to do and have a high contrast on the table top.
I've settled on the Knight of the Chalice chapter, a successor from the Blood Angels, the scheme is very similar to the horus heresy blood angels, red with black accent.

The little marine has been painted over 2 weeks trying to find the right balance between colours, textures and work involved to be able to produce an army for once and not just a few minis and being burnout. 
You can see the paint job is more than inspired by the artwork presenting the primaris chapter only on the warhammer community website.

For the base, I choose desaturate colours to contrast with the red of the marines, concrete environment with barbed wire and small rubbles to look like a true battlefield.
You can find the full tutorial here.

There is no such thing as friendly fire

Hot on the heels on the first marine, I did the rest of the squad to have a legal troop choice.

Here is the complete squad Heraeus, 5 more marines including the squad leader with bolter rifles.

The squad in it's full glory

Second troop choice is similar to the first one, also 5 marines with bolter rifle, this is squad Belamus. 

You can see I took some liberties with the squad marking to make them my own, I didn't like the multi-coloured knee cap.

Before the codex blood angels dropped, we didn't had choice of weapons for squad leader, but I'm planning on doing a third squad with a power weapon and assault bolt rifle. 

In the next article, I'll present my HQ choice including my lieutenants and captain.

Hope you enjoyed this little showcase and feel free to leave a comment below!

Cheers!

Anamnesis