One of my early paint jobs after picking up the hobby again!
Tag: Raven Guard
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Raven Guard Redemptor Dreadnought Painted
This is one of my early attempts at OSL.
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Warhammer 40K Metal Techmarine from Command Box 1998
Some oldhammer! Or is this middlehammer? I lose track. This Games Workshop Warhammer 40K Techmarine was released as part of the Company Command box set a month 3rd edition hit, apparently – which would put him at being released in late 1998. Still using the same metal backpack as the older 2nd Ed. Techmarines, his sculpt is a mirror of the Captain with Terminator Honours and various others. It’s a Jes Goodwin sculpt.
In the 2004 US catalogue this miniature is part number 010110305 with backpack 010107503 and axe/hand 010110306.
I was painting the metal guys up as a Raven Guard successor when I got him, so he has been stripped for repainting in blue. The RG successor scheme:
All painted using Scale75 with the exception of some washes and a contrast – in the scheme of a Raven Guard sucessor that is as yet unnamed. Back when I was playing 2nd. Ed I called them the Harbingers, but that name is actually a canon chapter now (perhaps it was then too) so I need to find another.
Base armour: Scale75 Artrist Green Grey, attempted to shade with SIN-42 Golem Grey but it wasn’t very dramatic
Base armour highlight: 50/50 Green Grey and Scale75 SART-16 Artist Arctic Blue
Base armour ultimate highlight: Arctic Blue
Red base: Scale75 Crimson
Red highilight: Scale75 Primary Red
Red wash: Carroburg Crimson
Metal base: Scale75 Black Metal
Metal wash: Drakenhof Nightshade
Metal shade: Scale75 Instant Fairy Blood
Metal highlight: Black Metal then Thrash Metal and Speed Metal, White Alchemy as ultimate highlight
Axe glow at the back: Scale75 Art White + Talassar Blue Contrast
Eye lens: Scale75 Sap Green and Spring Green, dot of Art White
Cables: Primary Blue, Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Primary Yellow, Dark Violet, Turquoise Blue
Wash for cog and rack on servo arm: Vallejo Mecha Dark Rust Wash
Wash for tubes on arm/backpack: Scale75 Instant Love Affair
Purity Seal: Scale75 Off White, Seraphim Sepia, writing Scale75 Artist Burnt Sienna Umber
Eye (all black as per RG): Scale75 Artist Art Black
Battle damage: Sponged on Black Metal
Prongs on power cords: SC-74 Elven Gold
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Battle Report: 2021-05-15
Today it was a Raven Guard Successor chapter vs. the Angels of Annihilation (Imperial Fists successor).
500pt game which was largely decided before the second turn of the first round. A RG smash captain and Bladeguard Veteran squad were Master of Ambushed up the board and successfully charged an Outrider squad, between the two of them taking it out and consolidating into a squad of heavy intercessors, who were forced to fall back rather than shoot in their first turn.
I think we are finding that 500pt games are sometimes easily decided like this – the Outrider squad was 30% of the total army points, and that’s a blow that would be hard to recover from (at least at our skill level…). As fun as it is to MoA a close combat squad up the board it would be a more fun game at a higher points figure, I suspect.
We’ll try 1000 pts for next time and see if we can fit it in a reasonable timeframe. Despite the game being over relatively quickly it still took 2hrs to set up, play and pack away. It would have been quicker had it not been months since we last played…
RG successor won, as you may have gathered. Terrain takeaway: Need more ruins!
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Painting energy effects on Warhammer 40K thunder hammers
I’m painting up some Raven Guard Primaris Intercessors squads where the sergeants have thunder hammers, and here’s the recipe I’m using to get the following look:
The hammer started off being undercoated in Mecha Black and a base coat of Hashut Copper was applied. A wash of Canoptek Armourshade was next and once that dried a heavy drybrush of Ironbreaker followed. The contact face of the hammer then received some White Scar and a drybrush of Praxeti White was applied, brushing from the face back so that it faded the further it went.
Calth Blue Clear was applied to the sides of the hammer. It dries a little more slowly than the Citadel washes so it’s a little easier to move it around to create a light to dark transition without having to get it right first time around.
Talassar Blue was applied closer to the face of the hammer to help with the transition, then Drakenhof Nightshade was carefully painted onto the face in the recesses and further back on the hammer where there were still lighter spots visible in recesses.
A little more drybrushing with Praxeti White and then some careful edge highlighting with White Scar got it to the point you see above.
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Raven Guard Primaris Eliminator Paint Scheme
Here’s how I paint the Raven Guard Primaris Eliminators.
This is one of my early attempts at a Raven Guard paint scheme – I currently use a darker shade of grey but I like this one still.
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Primer, Black 73.642
Armour base coat: Vallejo Model Color Black Grey 70.862
Recess shading: Citadel Black Templar Contrast
Armor drybrushing and edge highlighting: Vallejo Model Color Basalt Grey 70.869
Leather base: Citadel Rhinox Hide
Leather highlight: Citadel Gorthor Brown
Weapon base: Citadel Khorne Red and Citadel Leadbelcher
Weapon wash: Citadel Carroburg Crimson and Citadel Black Templar Contrast
Weapon drybrush: Citadel Leadbelcher
Lenses: Citadel Khorne Red
Camo Cloak Base: Vallejo Model Color Dark Grey 70.994
Camo Cloak Splotches: Vallejo Model Color London Grey 70.836
Camo Cloak Wash: Citadel Nuln Oil
Base: Vallejo Earth Texture Dark Earth 26.218
Base basecoat: Vallejo Model Color London Grey 70.836
Base wash: Citadel Nuln Oil
Metal part of base: Citadel Leadbelcher
Base bullet casings: Citadel Runelord Brass, highlights of Citadel Canoptek Alloy
Base bullet casings wash: Citadel Agrax Earthshade
Skin layer: Citadel Rakarth Flesh
Skin wash: Citadel Seraphim Sepia
Purity Seal Base: Citadel Wraithbone
Purity Seal Wash: Citadel Agrax Earthshade
Purity Seal Text: Citadel Rhinox hide mixed to varying extents with Citadel Rakarth Flesh
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Painting a Raven Guard Phobos Lieutenant
Painting up a sneaky beaky! Trying to mix a road base with the ash-waste style bases of some of the other Phobos RG units I have.
Marble base piece: Ushabti Bone/Pallid Wych Flesh/Agrax/Terminatus/Longbeard
Base ash: London Grey/Longbeard Grey
Armour: Black Grey, edge highlights London Grey, drybrush Dawnstone for the dust, Light Slate Grey pigment for recess dust
Battle damage armour: Abaddon Black/Stormhost Silver
Company Colour: 50/50 Naggaroth Night and Warlord Purple
Eye lenses: Moot Green/Warpstone Green/White Scar
Vox cable on chest: Black Red/Phalanx Yellow/Evil Sunz Scarlet
Leather pouches: Doombull Brown/Agrax/Skrag Brown
Writing on scrolls: Rhinox Hide
Edge highlight on gun: Grey Knights Steel then smaller Stormhost
Helmet: Khorne Red for stripe
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Battle Report: Kill Team 2020-06-29
Primaris vs. Primaris this time around! Raven Guard took on Space Wolves.
Takeaways for the Space Wolves – the Easy To Build 3x Reiver + 3x Intercessor squad combo lacks punch vs. a more customised set of Primaris marines.
Takeaways for the Raven Guard – Thunder Hammer + Intercessor Sergeant = very threatening. Auto Bolt Rifles seem to be superior to Stalker Bolt Rifles, at least in this game – the former dealt out a handful of wounds where the latter didn’t succeed in wounding once.
The Raven Guard sergeant with the Thunder Hammer took out two of the Reivers single handedly – the AP and damage of that weapon certainly makes it a threat to Primaris.
General takeaways – need to come up with some rulers and a score counter. Oh, and some tokens.
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40K Raven Guard: Where are the Mor Deythan?
Gav Thorpe’s Corax anthology provides an explanation for this in the Weregeld story on p. 461:
It used to be that the Shadowmasters had hunted in squads, using their unique Corax-gifted abilities to sow discord and terror amongst their foes. Now they worked alone, their number reduced to a handful amongst all the legionaires of the Raven Guard.
That particular story takes place during the Horus Heresey, not too long before Horus makes his advance on Terra. So, after the decimation of the XIX Legion on Istvaan V their numbers would have been somewhat depleted – the number of surviving Raven Guard was something like 3,000 from memory – and it would seem that attrition had reduced the Mor Deythan numbers further throughout the remainder of the Heresy.
That does not answer the question as to why more were not found amongst the future geneseed-enhanced warriors of the Raven Guard, though…
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Warhammer 40K Raven Guard Paint Scheme
Trying to figure out from lore what the various “correct” paint schemes have been for the Raven Guard. This will be updated as I get to painting the various models.
Sergeants
While the GW painted models show them as having white helmets, the stories I have read so far don’t ever mention this – and while it looks good on the models (imho) I think it flies in the face of the Raven Guard doctrine, unless you use some kind of head-canon adjustment. Perhaps the sergeants are so good at being sneaky that the white is not an impediment – would the Mor Deythan have been significantly hampered if they were parading around in white?
Librarians
P.381 of Corax by Gav Thorpe one of the Horus Heresy-era Librarians is described as having a blue right pauldron, where the rest of his armour is presumably the typical Raven Guard black.
