Adeptus Mechanicus at the Warhammer 40k Hobby Weekend

My local club has a 75 power point tournament in February which I will aim to attend with my Ad Mech.

To finish the models I already have I will need to add some more green object source lighting. I think I need this on the character axes and also on the infantry on their rifles somewhere.

I will also add transfers to get some quick iconography.

For new models I think a second army box set for more infantry, another dominus and duecrawler is a bargain. After that I’m not sure what I’ll add but every model in the range appeals to me.

Skin and blindfolds

The skin was painted aethermatic blue over a wraithbone undercoat. The blindfolds were painted moot green.

These were painted using my usual method for this army.

Half the models were bought second hand off a friend. He had already assembled them and as I built the other models I noticed that the fists had been assembled upside down. In general it is very easy to build the Kastelan Robots with parts the wrong way round or back to front. If you ever build these kits, pay careful attention to arms, fists and waist pieces.

These were painted in the usual way for this project.

One of the Skitarii was built as a Vanguard rather than a Ranger. This is because the sprue only has one of each special weapon. As I intend my eventual Vanguard squad to have all the plasma caliver’s, I’ve built one up now in advance. The Vanguard with plasma caliver from the first unit will get a head swap when it is time to build the third unit.

I picked up the raging heroes model after watching John’s painting videos of their models. It was a bit fiddly to assemble her mandrakes but I really like the model.

I’ve always liked the background of the Sicarian Infiltrators. They don’t sneak up on you using stealth – they use white noise technology to render you blind, deaf and numb so that you can’t find them.

The models were painted using the scheme I established in my previous posts.

Both models were painted in the same way as all my other models in this army.

To add detail to the large bases I printed off some crystal clusters on my 3D printer. In the background for the army they are fighting over a planet where these mineral deposits can be found. They incorporate it into their metal alloys which is why I paint the metal of the models purple.

To paint the crystals they were updercoated with wraithbone spray and then painted with shyish purple. They were then drybrushed with lucius lilac followed by praxeti white. Finally they were varnished with ardcoat.

Now we are in lockdown again my gaming club has resumed their lockdown painting competitions. This one’s theme is “boom” so I went with a flyer with a bomb rack.

The paint scheme is exactly as described in my previous entries on this project. The only new colour is skeleton horde used for the wing membranes.

The bases were painted mecharius solar orange and once that was dry I applied a thick layer of mordant earth technical paint. This took several hours to dry but as it did so it cracked to reveal the orange underneath. Once dry the base rims were painted abaddon black.

I then painted the clothes and wing frames with gryph-hound orange contrast paint, skeleton horde for the wing membranes and the rest of the models shyish purple contrast paint. Mistakes have to be covered up by re-applying wraithbone base paint before using the next contrast colour.

Then I painted the areas that are light sources white scar. Then drybrushed praxeti white around the area of the light sources, ensuring my brush strokes always move from the light source directly away.

The light sources were then coloured biel-tan green. The areas that were drybrushed were glazed waywatcher green.