Legion Imperialis Sons of Horus Thunderhawk
I’ve been painting a lot of Legion Imperialis lately. May main faction is Sons of Horus, although I’m starting up some Solar Auxillia to have a teaching force. I added an image gallery for LI, but I never did a post on my painting scheme, so for all of you Sons of Horses who want your XVI Legion to look snazzy, here’s how:
- Primer: Black
- Green: Basecoat Sybarite Green. Wash with 50/50 Coelia Greenshade/Lahmian Medium. Reinforce flat panels or areas where the wash pooled too hard with Sybarite Green. Edge highlight Gauss Blaster Green.
- Black: Abbadon Black. Edge highlight Warpfang Gray.
- Metal: Two Thin Coats range Sir Coates Silver either drybrushed onto black for slightly larger or isolated pieces, or painted flat and then washed with 50/50 Nuln Oil/Lahmian Medium
- Bronze: Brass Scorpion
- Red: Small areas are pure Evil Sunz Scarlet. Larger areas or textured areas like capes are Pro Acryl White with Blood Angel Red contrast and then Trollslayer Orange on edge highlight or raised areas. (for this Thunderhawk, the Trollslayer Orange was mixed 50/50 with Contrast Medium and lined at the bottom of the panel)
- White: Pro Acryl White (literally miraculous compared to previous white paints I’ve used)
- Bases: Primer Grey Seer. Add Grey Seer to any place the primer didn’t hit well. Paint metallic areas with Warplock Bronze or Sir Coates Silver. Wash with 50/50 Nuln Oil/Lahmian Medium. Drybrush stipple flat areas to cover up wash and make it look like concrete. Reinforce base sides with Grey Seer.
Four Strands Re-Launch! Updates, New Novel, and Surprise Announcement!
Welcome back! Fourstrandshobby has returned, with a new scheme same as the old scheme!
A while ago, WordPress updates made the old scheme for this site unworkable. This was after years of hackers breaking into the site again and again. It turns out that scheme was vulnerable. I chose another one that was very… blue. And ugly. And as such I wasn’t incentivized to post.
But, thanks to Lexington, I have a new scheme that looks like the old scheme, but works with modern WordPress and is secure!
In the intervening years, I’ve been up and down, but I’ve always made time for Modeling, Painting, Gaming, and Storytelling. I played a lot of 9th edition 40K and then 10th when it came out.
I also got into Legion Imperialis! I have a huge Sons of Horus force that grows all the time and will soon be joined (opposed?) by a Solar Auxillia force! Click the link below to see the brand new Image Gallery!
Legion Imperialis Image Gallery
More importantly, I’ve been writing! Big Game V: The Battle of Iperin was a novella made of vignettes contributed by multiple people on the old BGV forums and was chiefly written by myself, Lexington, and Joe. Big Game VI: The Omega War was a more focused narrative written by Lexington and myself.
However, the newest novella to be featured on Fourstrands is Home Fires: An Azure Flames Novel. This finishes what I’ll refer to as the Azure Flames Omnibus at least in terms of main stories. I also have a short story between BGV and BGVI, and I am considering another between BGVI and Home Fires to make a complete Black Library style omnibus. Click the link below, or the one in the Features bar.
Home Fires: An Azure Flames Novel
I’ve also done several projects for the Azure Flames! I’ll post a few pics below, but most will have their own posts soon.
But finally, and most importantly for my life, I’m getting married! Me and my Fiancée bonded over the classic Adult Swim show: The Venture Brothers. As such, I commissioned an expert to 3D print the Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch from their wedding. I then painted the duo myself.
Coming up next: Legion Imperialis Thunderhawk Gunship, some Solar Auxillia, and hopefully a battle report against loyalist scum, the White Scars at AFK!