Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Heresy Era Dark Angels - Land Raider off the factory floor

Quick hit this morning - Spent some time working on the first of the Land Raiders after work yesterday to try out the paint scheme on a vehicle. I've definitely found that sometimes a paint scheme that works well on an infantry model doesn't translate well to a large vehicle (and vice versa), but overall I'm glad to say that this scheme seems to work okay!


Still a lot of work to be done on the tank of course, all of the heraldry and weathering has yet to be applied, but in general I really dig the subtle greenish cast the edge highlighting gives and I think it's subtle enough that it doesn't become too distracting. I will say that pushing the edge highlights to be a little thicker and maybe using a more neon green and it would veer into Necron territory. Of course, that does half tempt me to do some Necrons now (no, stop it, no more new projects!)...


The addition of some red slashes, some black-and-white checkerboard patterns and a fair bit of battle damage, dirt and dust should give the tank much more personality, but as a proof of concept for the underlying paint scheme I really couldn't be happier! Looking forward to working up the other Land Raider and the Spartan in the same scheme soon!

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  1. Yes, that looks awesome so far! I couldn't agree more.

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  2. Lovely and nice nod to 40k colours using he green panels.

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    1. Thanks! In some of the HH books they reference the Calibanite side of the legion tended to bring in the deep green to reference the forests of their homeworld, and it definitely helps drive home the DA vibe!

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  3. I really like the green on black here. Are you going to weather the tracks at least?

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    1. Thanks! Oh yes, there's still much to do, they're going to get some heraldry slashes, some checkerboards, then a pass of weapon damage and weathering. Scheming on giving weathering powders a try for the first time with this project too! This is just the baseline clean version before going in and mucking 'em up... :)

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  4. Lovely mate. With all the extra stuff you've described to come this beast is going to be quite the sight!

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    1. Thanks man! I'm thinking I need to bring all of the tanks up to this state and then do the heraldry and weathering on them all at the same time so they stay consistent. That's gonna be a lot of edge highlighting. Oof!

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