Project 1 - Space Marines

Without further ado, time to go onto my first project.

Theres a planned open day at the shop, so I have been asked to put on a bit of a painting demonstration if theres anyone interested in taking a look.

Its as good an excuse as any to get back into the swing of things. Its just like riding a bike I guess... hopefully.

Anyway... the open day is on the 2nd of January (just enough time to get over the new years hangover) so I've been given a small selection of plastic space marines, and I intend to paint each of them in different chapter colours, just to get back up to speed with what I need to do.

I have 5 marines, so want to paint one as Dark Angels (green primarily), one as Blood Angels (red primarily), one as Imperial Fists (yellow primarily), one as Crimson Fists (blue primarily - I've never really liked Ultramarines so I'm ignoring those) and finally one as a Black Templars marine (black primarily)

I've spent about an hour preparing the models, gluing them together to get to a decent starting point.



You'll notice of course that I havent put any of the right hands in place - I prefer to do that so it doesn't block any of the chest area - I like to have access to all areas of the model so I dont leave anything too important out - people will argue that if its not visible, it doesn't matter, but i'm a bit of a perfectionist (and thats why I take so long to paint). Also - apologies for not putting all 5 minis in the picture, the one I took with all 5 was really blurry, so I left it out. I'll upload it to Picassa though when I document all the steps.


Now then... future plans. I want to try using Gesso to undercoat the miniatures as I've heard good things about it. I know that takes 24 hours to properly cure/set/dry so in order to have these ready for the open day, so the next task is to undercoat all the parts. Three are going to be done in black gesso, and 2 in white. Heres keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't totally ruin the detail on the model before I even get to lay a brush down to start work.

But for now, its just broken into New Years Eve where I am, and I've got a long day to come with the various celebrations and parties, so time to pack these away for now and return to them on new years day... probably with a sore head.