10/28/12 OP updated with newer Sons of Horus images...the idea of these new Sons of Horus is Isstvan 3 traitors, very Cthonian with topknots, and glyphs. I figure the sea green gradually became significantly subdued into a murky sea green not long before Isstvan 3 when the Cthonian influences on the legion came to overpower the Terrans.
Last edited by Gorthaur; 12-11-2012 at 17:51.
This is an amazing model!! I would say that it is a grey green type colour. However, if you wanted it to look more green, use red for trim. Correct me if I am wrong, but if you painted the trim with red it would be contrasting (since it is on the opposite side of the colour wheel) to green therefore bringing out more of a green colour when looking at the model as a whole.
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He looks good.
A very difficult colour scheme to pull off especially as there arnt to many reference pictures.
A great start so far.
That seagreen armor is really beutufully paintet. Keep up the good work.
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Nice model !
Maybe this could help:
Fire Angels :http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288637
Kublai's historical stuff : http://www.warseer.com/forums/showth...45#post6678545
Thanks, I would use red for the trim but I am trying to keep as close to the concept art in the Collected Visions book which means mostly black trims. I could try painting the big eye on the shoulder with a red background and gold trim instead though.Originally Posted by iron kid
My green is painted exactly the same as DPA's Horus Heresy thread tutorial, so adeptus grey undercoat, vallejo USMC tank crew and astronomican grey 50/50. With increasing amounts of astronomican grey for highlights. Its kind of odd how my marine ended up looking a different shade than DPA's though. Im not going to settle on a scheme right now, for all I know the new FW book will shed some light on the Sons of Horus colors, variants and maybe even a guide. I will try to retake pictures of this model too. Right now my images use mainly one light source, I think if I included 2 more lights from the sides it would bring out more detail.
This could work, I would be tempted to use the lightest one as a basecoat and add some white for highlights. The Sons of Horus scheme is probably the most difficult of all the legions, its so hard to get it to look just like the art.Nice model !
Maybe this could help:
Looks good mate, I think the green is a bit grey, but mine are alot more turquoise then yours. The battle damage is nicely understated too, and i really like that helmet conversion.
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A warning about those Foundry paints there... they don't quite match the colour they give as example. I bought some for my SoH and found they didn't really match the pictures. I'll get a photo up of the actual paints. The lightest one isnt quite as green... its a bit creamier. The tone of each paint seems a bit lighter than it's example picture.
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Apparently this is going to be the new official Forgeworld scheme for the Sons of Horus. Im not sure what the black armored marine is supposed to be, perhaps 1st company? I thought only Abaddons terminators wore black but this is going to change it seems. The green however looks like it could be attained by mixing dark angels green and some silver metallics perhaps.
I've found Skarsnik Green in the new range of citadel paints to be a pretty close analogy to the reference, maybe a shade or two lighter but certainly acceptable.
I think the Catulan Reavers were black too.
Apparently this is going to be the new official Forgeworld scheme for the Sons of Horus. Im not sure what the black armored marine is supposed to be, perhaps 1st company? I thought only Abaddons terminators wore black but this is going to change it seems. The green however looks like it could be attained by mixing dark angels green and some silver metallics perhaps.
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Alright folks, no real update so far. Sadly the Mk 2 armor and phobos bolters I ordered still have not yet arrived which is really irritating. Since Forgeworld has resculpted all of the Mk 2,3 and 4 sets I am going to paint the incoming Marines as Luna Wolves during the Great Crusade instead of Sons of Horus. I dont want to end up using the old Mk 2 with the newer Mk 2 because of the big difference in the legs and the new sets look more realistic and true scale inspired. So I will be doing 5 Luna Wolves for the hell of it, and anything past that will be Sons of Horus with maybe some Death Guard, the World Eaters and Emperors Children don't interest me at all really.
So, for the Luna wolves I have a choice of painting the Mk 2 helmet all white, keeping the rim or brow 'crown' a metal color, or doing the crown and mask a metal color, thoughts? Im leaning towards doing the crown and mask a gun metal color, to give the suit a more primitive look.
As for the Justaerins and Horus' armor, I have a choice of doing just black, with grey edge highlighting. Or, doing a metallic black basecoat (boltgun metal+alot of black), and doing metallic highlights and gradually washing the dark metallic color with black paints to tie in the layers. I have experimented a bit with both, im leaning towards a more metal looking black, which looks more like the artwork and less cartoony than chaos black with just grey highlights.
I cant wait to see what FW does with Horus and Mortarion.....Angron was cool, but not really a very interesting character to me anyways.
I wouldn't be so worried about the little differences on the 5 guys. Eventhough they resculpted some parts, the general feel will still be pretty much the same. Just try to mix them up with some of the resulpted sets and no one will see it. Besides, during the crusades and especially the heresy, so much stuff was damaged and repaired that there were bound to be some differences in the amour, even within the same armour type.
In the newset White Dwarf, there is a quick recipe for this color scheme. The picture showed a model that was part of Forge World Sons of Horus units from Games Day, so You can see it on some of the photos from the event. Its very simple, basically tabletop quality, but the marine on the attached photo looked good enough, I think.
The green however looks like it could be attained by mixing dark angels green and some silver metallics perhaps.
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Just to pipe in again, according to the new book the fellow in black is, indeed, a member of the Catulan Reaver company (looks like its not just a squad anymore, but an entire company). Wear black and have a 'Serpent Lodge' symbol instead of the legion icon on their shoulderpad.
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I could do that, but im not actually working on an army to game with in the first place. Im basically just painting what I want to paint, and I have a strong desire to try and do the Luna Wolves scheme justice now that I have done some practicing on white armor.
I would follow this look, but you can see what I mean about the face armor and picking which parts should be metal. I dont exactly understand what is being displayed on his right knee pad, looks like a face, half black with a star and a jester hat on. I think that looks fun to try and freehand...which means time to buy some new brushes. The Luna Wolves will just be a small side thing I do while I wait for the rest of the good stuff like Abaddon, the Justaerins to go up on the FW website. Im bothered that FW trickles the releases, which makes it hard to get free shipping without waiting until its all out. They really need to set up a production facility in the US too.
Here is my white test, for the Luna Wolves. Only the highlights will be white, to give it the illusion of being white. I used watery vermin brown on the lower parts to give it a dirtied look.
Sons of Horus logo
And for fun, an old World Eater I painted around 5 years ago when I wasn't much of a painter.
How did you paint the Lunar Wolve White?
The white is:
-basecoat of adeptus battlegrey
-50/50 mix of adeptus battlegrey and astronomican grey (leave the recesses dark)
-pure astonomican grey
-60/50 mix of skull white and astronomican grey coat
-highlights in skull white
-vermin brown blended up the lower leg.
Its pretty easy, you just want the paints to be just right, not to thick or too watered down.
double tick on the luna wolf.... very nice
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