Horus Heresy – World Eaters Paintblog by Andre77

Next comes some weathering and battered look, before i do the black and metal parts.

Painting white is a real pain. I changed my workflow to improve on the time needed for painting the white. Well it helped a little, but i still need 2 1/2hrs just for the white armour.  I am still unsure if i do it right and if my approach is right. Did today the 4th Marines armour. I am pretty sure i will need one more week to finish those first 10.

Here the step by step pics (after the washing):

Fast forwarded one assault marine to see what may be the end result. Have to say, i am unsure if i can hold to this standard in total.

Finished the white, with painstackly working around the rivits and adding white dots on them. Added retributor armour gold and painted the weapons black. Thinking about use a ink/wash to the gold, maybe some highlights. Then i have to add metals to the weapons and inks those again. Before i add highlights on them too.

Man have forgotten how much time it needs to paint 10 Marines in a row.

Almost finished the jumppacks. What did i do first? Well i started on the exhaust.

Yes, i painted it with averland sunset and added more white to the edge.

Then i used boltgun metal/lead belcher on the intake of the jumpack and the exhaust panels. I washed those with a thinned black ink (i like how it flows into the corners and still shines oily).

After this i painted the blue with caledor sky/enchated blue, i washed over this with thinned asurmen blue wash.

At last i painted the rivets in pure boltgun metal/leadbelcher.

Thinking about adding some black inks on them too, maybe not, because i dont want to ruin the blue. Maybe i will just do some highlighting on the corners with caledor sky + a little bit white.

Here is a total of the overall work + a bit prework on the armor to see if it works out like i want it.

So after airbrushing the models of the first batch white, i started painting nuln oil in the gaps between the armour parts for the first squad, which will be the assault squad. Like a buddy once said in these phases it may look like quite ugly and messy. I also painted some part blue, but more to let me do something else and then i did some work on the jumppacks. I think my next report on the progress will follow on the weekend.

Well this is the first day of our challenge. And the first thing i want to do is paint white over my white coating. You may ask why? And i say say white coating is not white enough.

Same goes for the infantry. Maybe i didn’t have to here. You will see this later.

So i started with a Calth (thanks to my buddies) and Prospero Box and lot of bits from Forgeworld and other companies. My first 500 pts (exactly 605 pts.) paint block constists of:

Kharn the Bloody [190pts] Legacy of Blood [20pts]

Assault Squad, Legion , Compulsory [235pts]

When i need time i will pull the rhino into the next slot.

So here all the miniatures white coated

Kharn is from Forge World, with a slight modification on the helmet. The victims will be painted from my buddies in their legion colours.

The Tactical Squad (Mark III) has helmets and shoulder pads from forgeworld. I added some sarrissas made from chainswords and combat knives and medium fire muzzles from anvil industry. I also like the ones from armorcast, but the shippings is way to much atm and my FLGs dont have then anymore in their inventory.

The Assault Squald (Mark III) has helmets and shoulder pads from forgeworld, jump packs from MaxMini. Some helmets from Kromlech. I added close combat arms from Kromlech to add Chain Axes and Bolt Pistols from Forge World. The power axes are from a Red Butcher set (will come later). Here i added some small fire muzzles too.

So this block starts in november. You will see more then. I will do step by step entries here. Hope you will like it.

As written the World Eaters were one of my love interests on the traitors side next to my Alpha Legion for 40K.

So i did some World Eaters as support for my Alpha Legion in 40K in the past, but i never could think about blue and green as a colour for World Eaters. For a painting contest i did this Chaos Space Marine:

This one should not be my last one. I did a Berserker Squad, an Raptor squad, an Chaos Lord on Juggernaut and an Chaos Rhino.

And almost forgot the arch-traitor Kharn: