Hello all, short time lurker, 1st time poster
I have recently been keen on getting into EA, I bought a heap of models from and old friend and I was looking for someone to paint me an army as I didnt want to stuff up nice Epic models, especially some that can be hard to get. I didnt have much success with finding a painter as many have a very full workload so I decided to give it a whirl.
I decided to start with a marine army because the models are fairly prevalent and I wont feel too bad if I stuff them up.
As a basic theme for the army I am going to use my 40k Golden Angels which are based on a Dark Angel Deathwing Army. I am a very slow painter and am generally too precice for my own good but lets see how we go.
After reading alot I have absorbed that a good basing technique can make or break an Epic army. Keeping this in mind I thought about what sort of base colour would contrast well with a mostly Gold/black paint scheme and Snow came to mind. I have never done snow bases before so it will be another challenge for me. In addition to the snow I am going to have a bit of an urban theme with some street lamps, posts, some ruins and mahinery to give the bases some much needed texture and highlights. I also wante to create a 'slushy' look to parts of the road where vehicles have passed and pushed the snow aside so that was another challenge and I think they look reasonably nice.
Anyways on with what I have done
This is my 40k Army that the Epic army will be based on
1st Tactical Detatchment
Where to from here?
I want to do a full company so I will need
another Tac Detachment
Devastators
Assault
From there some terminators and I dont want to think further
