Heresy Era Thousand Sons – Tactical Squad Hesyre painting continues!

Managed to get a few good hours of brush time in today and made great strides with squad Hesyre! Back in the zone with the batch painting, and some recently-released Eisenhorn audiobooks to keep me distracted - The Eisenhorn/Ravenor trilogies are some of my favorite 40k fiction, and I am really digging the narrated versions so far!


Next up for the squad was a bit of steel and blue - The various vents on the backpack, the teeth on the chainswords and so on all got a boltgun metal and dark tone wash, and I picked out the eyes and power cables in the usual electric blue. The blue on the trim of Hesyre's cloak matches the blues that I'd used on Sethep-Khet's robes, but they're a little blown out in this pic.


Next up was a whole mess of earthtones. Anything that was going to be leather or bone got a basecoat of Tierra Earth, which also included the bases. I rather like the step when the bases get the first color - It really makes the models pop and it's always a good sign that the finish line is near!


Picked out all the bone color on the weapon housings, wanted to try something a little different with the bone and gold weapons this go-around. I think I like it!


Next up I switched over to the nasty basing brushes and applied the bone and white to the sandstone parts of the bases, then the bone, the leather, the dirt and the sandstone all got a strong tone wash. Liquid talent to the rescue! Blacked the rims just to clean them up, and at that point they were as done as I could do for the day - they'll be left to dry overnight and I'll re-engage with the final touch-ups and flock tomorrow. Supposed to snow but be gorgeous subsequently so hopefully I'll be able to get 'em sealed in the next few days!