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Luna Wolves Reborn a.k.a. Cawl’s personal Guard – by Bothi
Recommendations: 291
About the Project
With 8th Edition of 40k I completely turned around on the game. Having played nearly no games in 6th and 7th and painted nothing, 8th managed to capture my attention and imagination again. So I bought the then new Box "Dark Imperium" and the "Dark Imperium"-Novel. Having read a few bits of Bolter-Porn in the past I had no high hopes for the novel. But it actually wasn't that bad. I really enjoyed it. And they took the story forwards. After 25years. The mountain was moving.
I really love the character of Belisarius Cawl. And one thing he said to Bobby G stuck in my mind. He has access to all 20 original Geneseeds and tried to convince Papa Smurf, that he should be allowed to create Primaris Space Marines of all original 20 Legions. This was obviously denied to reasons how this would affect other troops fighting along side Primaris Death Guard or Primaris Sons of Horus. But it kept me thinking...
Cawl being a secretive character and always doing what he wants wouldn't be able to resist the chance to prove the Primarch wrong. Primaris Marines of the Traitor Legions would be loyal. Because their genetics are much better than 10.000 years ago. So the idea to paint my Primaris Marines from the "Dark Imperium" Box as a Loyal Traitor Legion was born. And I decided to go with Luna Wolves for two reasons.
First the Luna Wolves actually never betrayed the Emperor. Those where the Sons of Horus. And those few loyal survivers of the Sons of Horus changed their name back to Luna Wolves and went back to a white armour scheme. Secondly_ I always wanted to paint white Marines. So here we go...
Related Game: Warhammer 40,000
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Planing: What to try new?
As said in the project description I decided to paint my Primaris Marines from the Dark Imperium Boxset as Luna Wolves. As I consider myself to be a speed painter (70% focus on speed, 30% on a good tabletop result) the first question I asked myself was:
- How much time do I want to invest?
Directly followed by:
- What new techniques I want to try?
The answer to first question was quite arbitrary. 1h per Marine is ok, but no more than 2h per Marine. This should be from priming to the finished marine. So with coating, base riming and flocking.
The second question was a bit harder. I just had seen the tutorial by John here on Beasts of War, where he used a zenithing method to paint the Star Wars Legion Stormtroopers. Stormtroopers are white too. John used a rattle can to prime the troopers Uniform Grey and then used his airbrush to put some white on them in an angle. So they were white models, but hat some grey shading on them already. Problem is I have no airbrush. So I decided to try to replicate the method with two rattle cans. Uniform Grey and White. As I never zenithed before, I’ll consider this as the first new technique I am gonna use.
The second new technique was based on the problem that the Primaris Marines had no insignia on them. They where supplied with a decal sheet for the most famous loyal legions like Space Wolves, Dark Angels, Smurfs, etc. But obviously no Luna Wolves. So I had three options. Buy some extra shoulder pads with Luna Wolves insignia. Free hand the s**t out of it. Or print my own decals. This decision was easy:
- As the shoulder pads of Primaris Marines from the Dark Imperium box are no more single bits like the marines in the past (they are part of the arm or the body now) I would have to do a lot of clipping work to get other shoulder pads on them. -> not doing it
- I suck at freehanding. -> need to get better at that sometime, but not now
- Ok printing my own decals it is 😀
The third new technique isn’t actually a technique. I am using some kind of AP dip (solvent based from the huge 250ml can) on nearly everything I paint these days. But I guess it would be to strong on just white. So no dipping this time. Which is actually quite new for me.
So I had my 3 more or less new techniques to try. A great theme. And a lot of motivation. On to the first prototype!
