7/25/2019 Night Lords
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Ancient evil: Big goofy hats don't make people soil themselves.
I'd used chaos
warrior helms as the basis for Night Lord helmets since torm of
!haos gifted me
with plastic warrior kits. At the time all I saw was an
alternative to the hated "bat
hat" and didn't recogni#e the utlility of the rest of the $gure.
I did an abortive
e%periment with chosen in &( but thought the capes and upper
bodies were fair
game )no*. Bottom line on ancient evil+ ,he adornments will be
kept to a minimum.,error should be that a thing out of terrible
legend. -se of the /B chaos kit and
some green stu0 work should suggest archaic horror striding from
the myths of the
horus heresy. I don't have a masters in 1kology so the "marks"
of armour won't be
accurately represented. I'm more concerned with ambiance than a
technical study. I
really like the chaos warrior legs because they scream2 "older
than heresy". I like
the Idea of many of my legionaires being terran veterans of the
great crusade.
3ppressive presence: I like to ad4ust the scale of my marines.
I've played around
with upscaling marines for a few years and tried some di0erent
methods. I followedthe stu0 5oghouse did for years but diverted
somewhere along the way. I attempt
to represent my marines as somewhere in the 67689&' foot
range assuming a
forgeworld krieg guardsman is somewhere close to (' even. /or
the most part
marine models aren't too bad if they improve their posture and
get some height in
the thigh and abdomen. If you have followed other "truescale"
pro4ects what I'm
doing here is a regression but I am choosing it because it suits
my sense of
proportion and saves me e%tensive retooling of armour plating on
standard marines
to suggest. I dislike the limitations on posing the ! legs allow
but if I get ambitious
after the $rst crew I may move to articulating standard marine
legs and detailing
them with additional armour after the initial build.
pecial e0ects: I reali#ed I couldn't paint lightning to save my
life. ,he $rst NL
models I painted were terrible)there were even some straight
lines of "lightning" on
those early models sad.gif *. ,he models I did before I packed
the army in were
much cleaner with crisp forks )I'd discovered thinned paint
smile.gif *. In retrospect
they looked cartoony and still missed the mark sad.gif . hen I
painted this time
around I tried something completely di0erent and goggled images
of lightning in the
sky. hat I'm trying now is a combo of la#y blending and
stippling. ,he e0ect is my
best yet and hopefully it will stand the test of a year or two
biggrin.gif .
I had a bad habit of painting marines as though they were
una0ected by their
environment. y guardsmen were always properly weathered but
somehow the
awesomeness of both ;avours of marines protected them from the
mud that
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