Thousand Sons Test Paint Scheme

Today's post is about my latest army.  As soon as I saw Ahriman I knew I wanted a Thousand Sons Army.  This has just been reinforced by Amon, the Sekhmet Terminators, and of course Magnus.  With this in mind I have painted the first Marine.  It is always wise to trial your paint scheme on a model prior to committing to an army.

Here's the pictures:

The painting stages are: 

- Under coat Citadel Chaos Black

- Air brush Vallejo Model Air Gold

- Spray in light coats Tamiya Clear Red, to build the candy apple colour

- Paint the trims GW Retributor Gold

- Paint the white parts GW Celestria Grey

- Paint the metal GW Iron Breaker

- Paint the eyes GW Warpstone Glow

- Apply Transfers now.

- Apply gloss varnish other the transfers to stop the ink in the next step staining them.  

TIP: Always varnish the whole panel, it blends in more on the finished model.

- Wash with a 50:50 mix of Army Painter Strong Tone water based ink and Future Klear

- Paint the white GW Ulthuan Grey

- Paint the center of the eye GW Warpstone Glow

His base was painted using.

- Base coat GW Dryad Bark

- Dry brush GW Gothgor Brown

- Dry brush GW Baneblade Brown

- Dry brush GW Karak Stone

And the model is done. What do you think?

The long hobby war continues...