First Steps

Figure at this point to give a quick update on how my project is progressing so far..

I am finding that time is a premium having a family to take care of!! But I am able to get some work done later in the evenings.

I've made myself a wet palette, picked up a bottle of liquitex matte medium

To start everything up, I based the models with Chaos Black spray from GW. I took the easy way out here since the majority of the models will be black with random pink shoulder pads, legs, helmets, arms, etc. One thing I like with this Chaos legion is that there isn't really any set pattern, I can basically paint pink wherever I choose to, how very chaotic..

Chaos Lord - black base with screamer pink to start

I think in total I have something like 100 models: A lord, 2 sorcerers, a bunch of terminators, marines, obliterators, possessed, chosen, weapons for Noise Marines, a Rhino. I still have some minis sitting in glass jars filled with Super Clean; aka The Purple Stuff which I've found works much better than Simple Green but to each their own.

So the Chaos Lord above, I've given him two lightning claws since I only want him to fight in HtH, is essentially the template for the painting of my army and the following paints will be used. Screamer Pink, Pink Horror, Emperors Children, Carroburg Crimson shade, Fulgrim Pink and Changling Pink for when I get all advanced on them.

that's a lot of pink..

My technique so far was to base all my models with the chaos black spray, then randomly pick parts of each model (shoulder pads, helmets, legs, etc) and go with a base of Screamer Pink, shade it with the crimson and from there Pink Horror to Emperor's Children. Admittedly I'm not a master painter by any stretch and I wonder if I could get away with just using a white base coat on some parts of the models where I want it to be pink and head straight to Emperor's Children? Perhaps that will make it too bright and overly garish even for EC standards. I'm going for the pastel look of the pink and using EC images from Lexicanum, 40K Wikia and google images as inspiration for this - I feel that highlighting the pink will be next to impossible based on what I want it to look like, I will probably need to edge highlight the black armor with Eshin Grey or something similar to really make it pop out.

I think I will do a few test models first start to finish before deciding on which technique to follow... but comments always welcome. I haven't come across too many tutorials on how to paint Emperor's Children post-Heresy CSMs.. and the ones that I have don't really give me the pastel look that I am going for so I figure why not try it on my own. Found a few pointers online and will build from there.

WIP marine, screamer pink sections

That's about it for now, I've got screamer pink on about 30 models so far and a few of them up to emperor's children but not finished yet. Will get some photos up once closer to completion.