[Showcase] Primaris Librarian and Inceptors squad

Hello dear readers,

It has been some times since my last post, I wasn't very inspired to write so I wrote nothing…
Even in this state, the blog received quite a few visits daily since we’re closing on 50’000 visits!
So, thank you for your interested!

Just to be clear, I haven’t stop painting, but I’ve been building a lot of stuff, meaning I had nothing to show really.

My head is a bit all over the place between the conversion I have in mind, what I’m painting and what I’m planning, but I’m hoping to write some article on a few conversions I have in mind.

Since it will be the first of this kind, I’ll gauge the interest with the visit the article receives 😊

It’s time to show you my latest entry for my Knights of the Chalice army, first here is my second HQ and I should finally be able to deny the witch to my friend master of possession (I’m not annoyed, not at all…)

Here is brother epistolary Ymael, attached to the second company of the Knights

I had to come up with an (almost) completely new scheme for this guy, librarians are usually blue, but I choose to paint the cloak red to be reminiscent of the rest of the army, I’ll do the same for my future chaplain and apothecary. Really happy with the result. 

I had some fun doing some freehand around the cloak before hiding it behind the weathering… yeay!
I didn’t know what to paint on the knee pad, I settled on the rank and quickly painted a little half skull on it. Job done! 

Since the spear is a force weapon, I wanted to have a different kind of glow than the usual power weapon, went for a reddish/pinkish tone with the power coming from the shaft, hence the white glow at the bottom.
The glowing eyes and hand were also something new, I let you judge if it’s successful or not.

Latest addition was the little special effect on the base, after reading Mephiston book and the description of the different spells, I tried to replicate the use of the blood of the enemies to power my librarian.
The blood going up is a mix of brass wire and fishing line with a drop of glue at the top, covered with blood for the blood god from gw, a hole was pierced on the base to hold the wire better.

For those curious, the weapon is from conversionworld.de, they have a very nice selection of weapons for the different legion the cast are very crisp and the guy running the shop is very friendly!

Next up is the inceptors squad Erasmos!

I really like this kit though one of the members has a really strange position.
No conversion on this squad, I just made some higher base to get rid of those horrible transparent holders.

Painting wise, it’s probably not my best squad, I had some troubles doing the right zenithally light regarding the position of the miniatures but at least they done.
The sooth was made by dry-brushing black paint around the exhaust.
Oh yes, you can’t see them, but I still painted the exhaust with a plasma effect, the little details…

And that’s all for today!

Next up on the painting queue is the redemptor dreadnought as requested by my follower on Instagram, then we’ll see! Some tutorials are also in the pipeline.
The resurgence of Sylvaneth is gaining my interested more and more, you may see some news on this front, who knows!

Thanks for reading and as usual you can follow my progress on twitter and Instagram link on the side of this page!

Until next time…

Anamnesis

Primaris Knight of the Chalice - Repulsor tank

It's been quite some times since the last article, I had planned to post it sooner but between life, being sick for few days, the heat and the release of battle for azeroth, I admit the hobby has been side tracked a bit.

Being level max and not much interest past the actual storylines mean I can go back to my miniatures!

Repulsor - Pride of the second company, terror of the battlefield and personnal ride for Captain Beshop

The tank was finished a few weeks ago, but I never posted the picture here.

Let's correct this.

The mighty repulsor, also called "wait, where is my check list for the weapons"!

I wasn't totally convinced when this kit was released but I admit it grow on me.

I still made some minor converting, specificaly on the turret, which was too clustered for my taste.

I put the rocket launcher on the front panel instead of the turret and cut the little peg to hold them, I'm no genious since I saw this modification on instagram, being honest...

A few fun effects were tested; on the gatling canon trying to represent the heat bloom, I used the new head from the blood angels primaris upgrade sprue also.

Big panels mean I had to add some shading on the red to make it pop, I use some purple ink to give it more depth.

Also special chapter mean no decals, so enjoy the freehand, the one on the back door was quite challenging to do :)

Close up on the pilot

You can also enjoy the fact that my lightbox is too small for this beast.

Next articles, I'll present my aggressor which ride on the repulsor with my captain, and normally a quick tutorial on the red!

Cheers,

Anamnesis

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