40k - Terrain - Ruined Aquila Showcase

Here are a few pictures of the original terrain piece showing what it looks like on the table top. The picture above is of my Aurelius Legion Rhino, in an old colour scheme, pulling up behind the Aquila ready to disembark its troops.

Here the Tactical Squad has crossed over the Aquila and taken cover in a crater.

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Creating Your Own Chapter - Terminators Revisited

Next up on my list of units to repaint is my Terminators. As you can see the bronze look is pretty different to the yellow.

 Here are some pictures from other angles.
 

  

This is how they looked before.
 

Here are some WIP shots of the bronze makeover.

I am really warming to this scheme.



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Creating Your Own Chapter - Tactical Squad Revisited

Still on my mission of painting over the yellow with bronze to see how this scheme is going to work and I am liking the results!!

 Picture above is what they looked like before.


Below are some WIP pictures.

Let me know if you think its an improvement.

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Creating your own Chapter - Aurelius Legion - Land Raider Revisited

So I have decided to continue to paint over all the yellow of my army and here is the Land Raider.

This is what it looked like before.

 Here are some WIP pictures.

Let me know what you think.

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Creating Your Own Chapter - Aurelius Legion - Merry Go Round

My project of creating my own Space Marine Chapter was put on hold several months ago mainly due to the fact that after many incantations I still wasn't totally sold on my colour scheme ( see picture below ). Recently I have been working on my Minotaurs project and after painting up the bronze armour I thought that maybe I could apply it to my Aurelius Legion as a replacement for the yellow ( see picture above ). For the Bronze process see my Minotaur posts. Overall I think this is an improvement over the yellow and will repaint the rest of my force to see how it works .


 

 I decide to try this out on my Dreadnought and here are some WIP shots.

The final product.

Let me know if you think its better or worse.

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Terrain Focus - 40k Tank Traps - Showcase

For those who were wondering what the tank traps look like on the battlefield, here is a picture of my Aurelius Legion Tactical Squad using the traps as cover while advancing on the foe!

That's it, short and sweet.

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Aurelius Legion - Land Raider

The Land Raider, pinnicle of Space Marine technology, whats not to love about this beast. I painted up my Land Raider in my own chapters colours awhile ago but never got around to taking pictures and posting them up. Well here they are so enjoy.

 

 
 

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Aurelius Legion - Weathering Test - Pigments

So onto the application of pigments or weathering powders, I used the Secret Weapon Rust Red as seen in the picture above. First off let me say that when I looked at models ( I am talking about Ron at From the Warp) that have pigments applied they look like they are applied sparingly and with precision. A feat which I thought could be easily achieved, a bit like painting. Well I was wrong!! applying pigments is pretty difficult to do if you want precision as its a powder and does not flow like a paint would onto a surface. Guess that's why we do these trials so we can learn new things. Its also very messy so do this over a sheet of clean paper so you can pour the mess back into your pot.

Another problem I found was that after two or three dips of your nicely pointed brush into the pigments, the powder gets under the bristles and turns your point into a broom. Below are some pictures of the powders applied to what is supposed to be the recesses only!! Pretty messy.

The best I was hoping for after applying the powders to the entire squad was that most of the stuff was going to come off when I wiped them down and applied the alcohol to set them in place. At least that part worked out as hoped for in part at least. Here are some pictures of the models wiped down as much as possible. This stuff is pretty sticky actually!

 The other major problem is the colour of powder compared to the colour of the model, what do I mean? well applying a light powder over a dark colour is like adding a highlight so if its in a shaded part of the model that is a problem. See the picture below. The powder has ruined the shading of the shoulder pad. So be careful where you apply the stuff. In the end I did not apply the alcohol.

All in all this was a very frustrating and rewarding experience all at the same time. The squad looks pretty good after the initial bad start but I am not sure if I am going to carry this over to the rest of my army.

I leave you with some pictures of the final result although my decent camera was not working at that time so had to take them with my phone so forgive me for the lower quality pictures.

 

Hope you enjoyed this series and let me know what you think of these guys.

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