Starting up my horus heresy Alpha legion 30K (Part III Production schedule)

Whew, been in kind of a blugging funk lately, so here we go, comin' up comin' up

AS noticed in my last post i had been completely seduced by the ease and result that one garnered when using an airbrush to do metallics. Moreover, i realized that it was a pretty unfeasible proposition to use my mates airbrushes whenever i needed to do some 30k stuff. Particularly as the alcohol based paint can wear on both the sealant and the needle unles you clean it properly, and it definetly requires meticulously cleaning in between each layer. 

So, in November last year i caved in and bought myself one for my birthday. 

I got the same one as my friend actually. We both have the harder and steenbeck pro evolution one. 

i'll probably review  it at a later junction. 

So armed with a compressor and a airbrush i started my journey into actually finishing some stuff (by this point i had Horus heresy modells lying unassembled for about half a year) 

As written in the last post. I had come as far as doing two coats of the tamiya mix (75 blue 25 green) and now moved on towards doing the highlighting and follow up (blue towards the top, green to the bottom simply put) The point of these steps are simply to make sure that you get a maximum exposure of metallic blue towards where the light would go. 

And lo' and behold. towards the end of my first airbrush session i wound up with a couple of models that were ready for highlighting. 

A sergeant with melta bombs and a hammer

A centurion model with an alpha legion specific head. 

A MKII command squad champion, with some different arm stances and an alpha legion head 

So i tried to remedy the situation by redoing a lot of steps. 

These are the models that got mucked up 

As i posted above, the ones i did by hand were staring at me with dissapointment from a corner of my hobby case, so i decided to try and save them, maybe make them fit for some "front of the squad action" and just fill out a unit. So i coated it with ye ole 75-25 mixture. And tried to go ahead. 

Unfortunately, i've had a lot of problems with my airbrush. So it took me ANOTHER two months to start doing details, but by December last year i had my first models ready. What i can say about these are that The guilliman glaze is a real treat for popping out the details.

So these were my first models. 

A tactical legionairre with a nuncio-vox, a sergeant with combimelta and a banner-less banner bearer in the background. 

One of my two laser destroyers. I was kind of happy with the rough metallic texture of the front shield.  

And the designated spotter for one of them.

 So that was the LONG winded start of my legiones astartes. 

A quick mentioning of the basing. I think that a good basing for the metallic blue is the white snowwy base, there are two reasons, the first one is that the white layering neatly offputs the metallic blue and brings out the light of the scheme without detracting focus from the model itself. 

The second one is that it is an easily replicated basing model. Which really counts when you are going to do 50+ tactical legionnaires.  

phew, so there we have it. My start.