Rage's New Army: Relictors - Khorne's Rage

From there I noticed the Dark Angels are covered in little Dark Angel symbols (funnily enough...), small winged swords.
As I wanted to take my time with this force and get them right, I spent ages finding these symbols and trimming off the sword, leaving the wings.
As the Relictors symbol is a sideon skull, i used Greenstuff to sculpt little skulls in the middle of the wings, adding to the feel of the Marines carrying icons of faith.

I assembled a squad of ten Dark Angels ( :cough: Relictors ), cleaning up all the arms, the backpacks and drilling out the bolter barrels (It does make a difference.. makes em look much better!). I had a few Legion Of The Damned shoulderpads that, by sheer coincidence, had a skull looking to the side on them.

They were, however, facing the wrong way.
Remembering a piece of ancient background from Rogue Trader (first edition 40k) on Space Marine Armour, I decided that I would put the chapter icon on the other side of the armour; as all Space Marines are right handed, their left shoulderpad (usually holding the icon) is facing the oncoming enemy fire. So to keep the Chapter Icon intact (as squad markings are easily replaced, while to allow damage to the chapter icon is dishonourable), Marines should have the icon on their right shoulder...
Or so is my excuse :)

I based the completed marines by glueing sand to the base with PVA. I find if i do this before undercoating, its easier to simply drybrush the rocks later :)

To make the Special / Heavy weapons stand out, i took some Chaos Marine arms and filed them (taking off spikes / trims etc) to give heavy gloves. A Plasmagun and heavy bolter were assembled, leaving only the Veteran Sergeant.

As the Relictors are now scattered to the winds, I am including a Veteran Sergeant in every squad, all wielding Power Weapons (modelled to look like Daemon Blades), to represent that now the Relictors are Excommunicate Traitoris, they have cranked out the Daemon Weapons that they were hiding...
I used Asmodai, but replaced his sword arm with a crozius arm from a Marine chaplain (it had a winged skull and pretty arm detail). His Crozius was replaced with a WHFB Saurus Warrior's blade, which i added a edge to.
The studs were left in and painted white to look like the blade itself is a Daemon and the blessed studs rammed through it to hold it in place.

For painting, I undercoated the squad black and applied two thin layers of Shadow Grey to the armour.
However, I took care not to paint to the edges, even on panels to leave thin black lines along all the detail.
The white pieces were painted a shadow grey / white mix, and let to dry.
Again black lines were observed. When dry, I added a few thin layers of white, making sure to leave the grey in the shaded parts.
Eyes and gunsights were painted red, the metals in Boltgun Metal.
Bases were drybrushed Scorched Brown.

For the squad markings, I used a varient on the codex tactical mark from the Index Astartes, a single white line ( with a black line either side to add definition ) and a small black circle with the squad number in white.
On the Icon shoulder plate is a scroll. I debated painting each marine's name on them.. but decided against it, naming so many marines would drive me crazy :)
So i painted it in bone and painted the squad name on there instead :)

Once the squad was finished, I went and painted a Space Marine Rhino to match... 2 thin coats of Shadow Grey (using a tankbrush then a Standard Brush), a blackline followed by a thin Shadow Grey.
Studs were tapped in white and a general tidy up happened.
I had painted the tracks metal, but preferred them black, so they got repainted black while i painted a matching squad marking on the door and top hatch.

Now then, I initially haven't highlighted the marines, seeing how they look.
They do look good, but i'm gonna go back over and highlight them now... at an hour each marine ...

Until next time!

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