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The Song of Slaanesh: Part V

The first squad of Marines is finally starting to come together, each is now armed with a freshly purchased Sonic Blaster, carefully undercoated and ready for the application of a re-considered colour scheme.

After getting pretty much nothing done last month, I am really pleased to be back into the swing of things this month with quite a lot of progress being made on the first squad.

This Months Purchase

First a quick look at what I bought this month, I had £42 to spend and ended up spending an extra £8.50 in order to get free shipping, which leaves me with £26.50 for next month.

Qty	Item	Price
2×	Paint Warlock Purple and Chainmail	£4.00
7×	Emperor’s Children Shoulder Pad	£5.25
15×	Emperor&rsqou;s Children Sonic Blaster	£30.00
15×	Emperor’s Children Arm 1	£11.25
	Total:	£50.50

Not much thinking went into this purchase, 15 Sonic Blasters should cover me for the 1000 point army list, I got the paint because I think they will probably come in handy and I got the shoulder pads to add a little bit of flavour and to get my order up to £50 so I would get free shipping!

Undercoating

Time for a quick guide on undercoating your miniatures. You will notice that I actually work on each marine in separate parts which means the undercoat process probably takes a bit longer than if I painted my models complete but I feel more comfortable knowing that I can get into all the nooks and crannies.

Step One

Once the squad was ready to undercoat I used Blue-Tack to stick each part onto a thick foil tray which I purchased from Tesco. I made sure I kept each part in order, so I knew which arms belonged to which body. Ensuring that the parts are not going to jump about as you spray means you can easily rotate the tray to cover all the angles.

Step Two

I used the Chaos Black spray paint that Games Workshop sell. Spray undercoating is pretty simple stuff, you just need to ensure that you keep a good distance from the model to make sure you don’t build up too thick a coat and obscure some of the detail. After the first side of the models were sprayed and left to dry I flipped them over and sprayed the other side.

Step Three

Once you have finished spray painting the chances are that there will be areas on the model where the spray didn’t catch. It’s time to get out the old fashioned paint brush and using some watered down Chaos Black paint touch up the bare patches. The watered down paint means you can be quite liberal with it as it will naturally get into all the crevices.

Step Four

Leave the paint to dry completely and and give them another look over, sometimes it is hard to spot areas you have missed in and amongst the shiny areas of wet paint. If you spot anymore blank areas you can sort them out with some more Chaos Blank paint. Now you have a set of models primed and ready for painting!

A Colour Scheme Re-think

After posting my planned colour scheme back in Part I I have been having real doubts about how an all brown marine would look. In fact, each time I look at my Test Miniature the more I think it is a bad idea.

So, I will be returning to the traditional Emperors Children colour scheme of Black and Pink. I am still planning to get some brown in there, using it much in the same way as the pink, on random areas of the power armour but the majority of the model will now be black. 

Finally, Time for Some Paint

With all the undercoating done, the first squad is finally ready for a lick of paint! Next month should be a good update then, I am going to pick up a tripod and desk lamp so hopefully the photos will be much better as the flash really doesn’t help.