The Horus Hersey – The Primarchs

Now, this is a total cheat, neither is here a Forgeworld Mini or a Primarch.

But he is the Warmaster of Chaos, and a fantastic mini.

When I bought him the guy who served me in the shop commented he had been waiting for this miniature all his life – I looked at him suspected he was in his very early 20’s and replied “yes you probably have”.

Many years ago a friend of mine bought the original Abaddon by Jez Godwin and like a lot of people at the time, fell foul of Abaddon being largely disabled due to his arms never staying on.

Glad to report, that hasn’t happened with this guy yet!

Face

Rakarth Flesh – (shade) Reikland Flesh – *highlight* Rakarth Flesh – (shade) Carroborg Crimson localised the eyes and mouth

Armour

Abaddon Black – *highlight* Eshin Grey – *highlight* Thunderhawk Blue

Armour Trim

Retributor Armour – *highlight* Liberator Gold – (shade) Reikland Flesh – (shade) Agraxearth shade – *highlight* Silver

Metal

Leadbelcher – (shade) Agrax EarthShade – (shade) Nuln Oil – *highlight* Silver

Skulls

Rakarth Flesh – *highlight* Screaming Skull – (shade) Seraphim Sepia – (shade) Agrax EarthShade – *highlight* Pallid Wych Flesh

Once again, another cheat here, this is Magnus the Red in his Daemon Primarch form.

Currently going a bit slow this one, took a while to build him for a start, and I have stalled a little bit time I decide which pieces of armour to glue on.

Point of interest, at the moment the breast plate seems to just stay on him, so I might not bother gluing that on and just leave it in place.

Once Magnus is complete, I still have Fulgrim, Horus, and the limited edition Sanginius to start work on, and that’s before I buy any of the others!

UPDATE – Few more shots of where we have gotten to with Magnus, not sure about which armour to fix to him, i have painted his breastplate, but glued the eye on his belt, so the breast plate doesn’t really fit properly now!

So far we have done:

Base

Chaos Black spray

Skin

Screamer Pink – ^Dry^ Wazdakka Red – (shade) Carroburg Crimson – ^Dry^ Wazdakka Red – (shade) Druchii Violet (Hand & Feet) – *highlight* Pink Horror – (shade) Druchii Violet (Hand & Feet) – *highlight* Emperor’s Children

Metal

leadbelcher – (shade) Nuln Oil

Horns

Rakarth Flesh – (Shade) Reikland Fleshshade

**UPDATE**

More work on Magnus (finally) ignore the clutter behind him and the not so great picture!

I will take some better ones shortly.

So, as I have been adding the recent pics of Ferrus Manus to this project, I noticed I never actually uploaded a finished Magnus the Red picture.

Here he is complete with his disco leg warmers almost to big to fit into the frame!

My personal favourite of all the Primarch’s, and having just recently finished reading the book I am glad to present the almost finished man himself.

For the face we opted for:

Rakarth Flesh – (shade) Drakenhof Nightshade – Rakarth Flesh – (shade) Druchii Violet (eyes and mouth) 

The armour we did:

Kantor Blue – (shade) Drakenhof Nightshade – *highlight* Kantor Blue – *highlight* (Altdorf Guard Blue) – *highlight* Hoeth Blue 

Metal Trim:

Gehanna’s gold – (shade) Agrax Earthshade – *highlight* Liberator Gold

The Flesh loin cloth & Exterior Cloak:

Cadian Fleshtone – (shade) Agrax Earthsahde – *highlight* Kislev Flesh – (shade) Carrobourg Crimson & Bloodletter Glaze

Claws & Metal

Leadbelcher – (shade) Agraxearth Shade – (shade) Nuln Oil – *highlight* Storm Host Silver 

Interior Cloak:

Mephiston Red – (shade) Nuln Oil – *highlight* Wild Rider Red

Iconography on Boots

Ushabti Bone – (shade) Nuln Oil – *highlight* Screaming Skull

Bit of a cheat this one, but as I don’t particularly like the Forge World mini (he looks quite boring apart from the base) I opted for the recently released Warhammer 40K model.

The Big Blue guy Robute Gulliman.

It’s literally been years since i started this (and with GW seemingly intent on re-releasing all of the Primarchs again, it maybe years until I am finished).

Anway, I started work on Corvus Corax and as I was doing so, I looked at RG, and thought I have actually improved a lot since I started this, is there anyway I can make Robute look better.

So I did.

Got out Calgar blue and thinned it down a lot to highlight up his armour.

Got a bit screaming skull and brightened up his purity seals, and had another pass at his face.

Not the first Primarch I actually bought, but from an investment point of view (at around £60 a go) I thought he would be potentially the easiest to start with.

As he wears all Gold armour (I Jokingly said this to a guy in a Warhammer shop and he got a bit annoyed at me stating “He doesn’t wear Gold! he wears Bronze!!”) Any way here he is pre- daemon prince form.

Balthasar Gold – (shade) Reikland Flesh Shade – Brass Scorpion – Runelord Brass – *highlight* silver

Face

Bugman’s glow – (shade) Reikland Flesh – Cadian Flesh tone – Kislev Flesh

Tattoos

Free handed in using Mephiston Red

Cloak

Dryad Bark – (shade) Agrax Earthshade – ^Dry^ Gorthor Brown – ^Dry^ Rakarth Flesh

Inside – Rakarth Flesh – (shade) Agrax Earthshade – *highlight* Rakarth Flesh