Order of Navaar

So after coming across a nifty little tool on the Bolter and Chainsword website, which allows you to paint up a space marine in any colour scheme you wish, I came up with the scheme above.

The red shoulder pads and arms were symbolic of the blood spilled during the 'Battle of Blood River' which turned the water red and the blue is symbolic of the clean water after the carnage had been washed away.

Here is a painted example of a AOBR terminator and a tactical marine (photo take with mobile phone camera).

At the time I was painting these the incredible Blood Angels were not released yet so I was looking for something to use as the symbol? I rummaged through my bits box and found some WH Fantasy High Elf shield bits and cut them up to represent the Eagle Wings seen on the terminator shoulder pad.

I really enjoyed painting up the colour scheme and from a black undercoat I used Ultramarine blue as the base coat and a heavy wash of Asurmen Blue followed by some edge highlighting. For the red I used a base coat of scab red then a layer of red gore, a heavy wash of equal parts devland mud and baal red with a final edge highlight of blood red. I was happy with the result but thought about getting a wet look on the red areas as if the blood it represented was still fresh so I applied a wash of red ink.

Hope you like them, any constructive feedback is welcome, enjoy!

Vitor

PS : Next post - Order of Navaar complete Tactical Squad