Having been sucked in by the loveliness that is the Collected Visions of the Horus Heresy, I decided (possibly rashly) to make myself a force of pre-Heresy Thousand Sons.
Before making any pre-Heresy space marines I cannot recommend reading the following two sites enough:
To get the basics I started with a box of Chaos Space Marines from Wayland Games, and chose the bits that most resembled Mark IV and Mark V armour.
You can see my first test painted miniature and the pre-painted models of the rest of my first squad here.
As you can see from the test painted miniature I've gone for the red and gold colour scheme of the pre-Heresy Thousand Sons rather than the blue and gold post-Heresy armour. I applied the Thousand Son and Scarab heraldry using a pointillist method to build up the overall shape without having to have an insanely steady hand! I am undercoating in white as the entire squad are going to be hero-like, and then used a base of Mechrite Red, with Scab Red over the top, edged with Red Gore and washed with Baal Red. The gold is all Burnished Gold as I want them to really shine. I painted in the eye sockets in Chaos Black and a 50:50 Chaos Black/Skull White mix with Wet Effect layered in to give the requisite shine.
There has been quite a bit of customisation and re-purposing with Green Stuff, a modelling knife and a needle file. Mainly I wanted to remove the overt "Chaos stuff". I wanted their poses to be more dynamic as I am going to mount them on 40mm terrain bases rather than the usual 25mm ones.
If you are new to Green Stuff modelling a tip for you: wet the surface you are working on and always use a wet blade, it makes it much easier to cut to shape, though you will need to dry the area that is supposed to stick before applying.
Before I can do much more I am waiting for a set of Steam Knight heads to arrive from MaxMini, various Egyptian-themed accessories from Crocodile Games and some lovely 40mm bases from Dragon Forge
Before I can do much more I am waiting for a set of Steam Knight heads to arrive from MaxMini, various Egyptian-themed accessories from Crocodile Games and some lovely 40mm bases from Dragon Forge
Once the green stuff has fully cured I will finish the undercoating.
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