My newfound addiction to Space Marine miniatures continues.
After a less-than-successful trip to Hobbycraft to get the Assault on Black Reach set, I did end up picking up a bike unit. I’ve had my eye on the bike+sidecar unit for a while as I think it looks really neat, but as I hadn’t tried any vehicle models before, I thought the cheaper single bike would be a good starting point to practice on.
Its made an interesting change from building up the marines, as the basic marines don’t require glue as they can be nicely pegged together. Whereas this model doesn’t really have solid pegs so has to be carefully assembled and glued together. Fortunately this wasn’t particularly difficult, and for most parts, there’s at least guiding pegs which, while they won’t hold the model together, will at least help you figure out where bits go.
I also was unsure about whether to paint parts first and then assemble, or assemble and then paint, so it ended up a bit of a hodge-podge, with me painting some parts, before deciding the glue and paint probably wouldn’t mix and just putting it all together and then going back and painting everything.
As seen in the picture, there’s still a good amount of painting to do (and the eagle-eyed will notice I forgot the shoulder guards on the marine’s armour, so they’ll need to be done). The bike needs a second coat of red I think, along with a good bit of tidying up. And then the washes will be applied across the bike and marine to add some depth. I’m quite happy with how its shaping up though, even if it is quite rough at the moment.
I’ve also been continuing to work on my basic marines. With 3 painted as the Genesis chapter, I decided to try doing my remaining two as Salamanders to have another go and compliment the Salamander I’d already done.
In the picture I’ve included the first Salamander I did for comparison. This time I used a Dwarven Bronze paint on the chest logo instead of flat yellow, and applied a wash of Devlan Mud. The gun’s more detailed as well, with me leaving the body of it black and applying a little white to the skull logo.
I’m very happy with how the bronze paint turned out on the chest, as well as the wash. As usual, there’s some tidying up required (darn these hi-res pictures showing up the bits I’ve missed) but overall I think its a big improvement. The wash really improves the look of the miniature with minimal work.
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