Repainging all my Legions Imperialis bases

Hey,

I've started collecting Legions Imperialis a few months ago and painted up a small force. And it looked good, I was proud of it. But, the basing schema wasn't working well. The grey blends with the metallic models too much. I tried to make the models a warm metallic and the base a cold grey, but honestly, at this scale that's too subtle.

So, I started looking into repainting them. Mars basing is well known to work with IW; the bright colors create an effective backdrop, and the tones are similar to rust so nothing stands out too much.

I tested the scheme on 4 bases. One base would tell me a lot, but this is a game of large scales, so I feel painting up a single base would make me focus more on the detail of that single base than the general mood.

I liked it a lot! Enough to repaint some 40 bases of infantry I had already painted.

You might be wondering, how to repaint all those bases without ruining the painted models? Isn't that a chore? Well, yes and no. I already glue the little guys on the base before priming anything - I really need the plastic cement to take, because I don't want the models to pop off during handling. Especially considering my bases are all magnetized, and the base is too thin to grab, so the models are really what I handle all the time.

So, it's fine. I just painted around them. What's hard to reach doesn't need much attention, as long as it's some shade of brown or orange it's good enough. I used a small drybrush where that was needed, and it's only needed in open areas and edges.

Here's the recipe:

• Before priming, glue on some pebbles, or pipes or barrels or random bits for interest. Especially if the base is looking a bit sparse in places.
• Prime in black.
• A random wetblend of Scale75 Brown Leather and Mars Orange. Two layers should be enough. It should look random so don't bother smoothing things out, and apply paint thick, it's just a base.
• Lightly drybrush a mix of Mars Orange and Proacryl Warm Flesh, or some other beige you have around. Just lightly, mostly to pick out the rocks, and to bring up the edge of the base up a bit. I wanted the base to form a halo around the models.
• Paint all the rocks in gray, with edge highlights dots in light gray towards white.
• Wash the whole base in Guilliman Flesh. Mid-Heavy towards the middle, lighter towards the edge; if it's too heavy towards the edge you can use a clean, wet brush to dilute it a bit while it's still drying.
• Reestablish a bit of gray towards white on the rocks and such, where you feel it's needed. The rocks should still belong to the same environment, be reddish, but still be seen as different from the ground.
• Paint the rim in Musou Black.
• Edge highlight the rim, all steps and all panel lines on the base in Tau Light Ochre.

I also started applying some of the same paints to my tank tracks but I didn't finish that work yet.

Here are some pics of the collection with the new bases and a bunch of new stuff I have painted since. Thanks for looking.

Pre-Indomitus Necron Family Album

Here's my entire Necron collection! Reinforcements coming soon.

There's a post for pretty much every unit in here, so feel free to browse by tag in the sidebar if you wish to see or know more about a particular unit. The base recipe and the general paint scheme are here too.

Thanks for looking!

Templar Regent Family Picture!

I took some time today to take pics of all Marines that I've painted over the last half year or so. I wasn't writing much during the process so pics are long overdue.

The chapter is a custom, Black Templar derivative called the Templar Regent. They're all truescaled, standing at about the same height as a Primaris marine.

You can see:

• A drop pod
• 3x5 Crusaders with bolters
• 3x5 Crusaders with bolt pistols and chainswords
• Chaplain with a bolt pistol and Crozius
• Captain with a storm bolter and thunder hammer
• Land Raider Crusader
• 5 Terminators
• Captain in Termie Armor with magnetized arms
• Stormhawk
• Two Razorbacks
• Relic Leviathan Dreadnought

All crusaders have fully magnetized special and heavy weapon guys. Combi-weapons are magnetized too.

The Chaplain is Ortan Cassius, truescaled and with all Ultramarine insignia removed. Man, monopose kits are a pain to truescale. It doesn't look great but it's good enough. The head is a graft of a Necron Immortal face onto a bare Space Marine head w/ breathing mask over his cheeks.

Not much special to say about the drop pod and the tanks. They're pretty cool though, and fully magnetized. I'm looking forward to painting more.

The Stormhawk is fully magnetized and can be converted into a Stormtalon.

Termies are truescaled and magnetized too.

The Captain is your normal Space Marine Terminator Captain that comes with some GW kits, but truescaled and handswapped. His Thunderhammer head is 3D printed.

Thanks for looking, and enjoy!