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Just finished reading Death Rider (great book which I highly recommend!) and disappointed to see that a mounted commissar isn't even a current option. Is there any rumouring or speculation that GW might bring this back from legends?

Kitbashed this guardsman as a palette cleanse, planning now to take it to 500 then 1000 points 🙂

I’ve had several redditors ask for my colour shift Alpha Legionnaire recipe, so thought I’d post a short tutorial. I don’t consider myself a great painter, but this scheme is simple enough and looks good en masse on the tabletop.

 

Colours used: Abaddon Black (base), Phoenician Purple, Sotek Green, Sybarite Green, Gauss Blaster Green

Image 2: Paint the armour panel Phoenician Purple. Use multiple thin coats to ensure a smooth even coverage, as we’re doing several coats/colours we need to keep the coats thin so as to not build up unwanted texture.

Before the next step we need to decide where our light source is coming from. I recommend not having this come from directly overhead – on my legionnaires I have the light source coming from high over the left shoulder. This means that the right side of the miniature will have more shadow, which results in a more interesting paint finish.

Image 3: Paint Sotek Green onto the armour panels, leaving the purple showing around the edges and in recesses. The Sotek Green coverage should be more complete on the panels facing the light source, while panels away from the light source should have more of the purple base exposed. Use several thin coats to get good coverage of the green and try to feather the edges where the green meets the purple, this will make the two colours blend more readily.

Image 4: Make a glaze of Phoenician Purple (if you haven’t glazed before, watch some YouTube videos – it seems daunting but isn’t too hard and is a great skill to have). Glaze with brush starting in the Sotek Green and ending in the Phoenician Purple, otherwise you’ll end up with small pools of the purple in the Sotek Green. Continue this step until you’re happy – the more layers you glaze the better the transition will look. If you’re unhappy with the margins or feel that you’ve desaturated the Sotek Green too much you can just go back a step and paint more in.

Image 5: Place your Sybarite Green highlights. I do this sparingly, using this colour as an extreme highlight. Feel free to experiment and do larger highlights if you prefer this look.

Image 6: Repeat the glazing step, but this time using a Sotek Green glaze. Glaze with brush starting in the Sybarite Green and ending in the Sotek Green. You can glaze in the opposite direction too, making a Sybarite Green glaze and glazing from the Sotek Green into the Sybarite Green.

Image 7: Final highlighs – Edge highlight the Phoenician Purple edges with Sotek Green, the Sotek Green edges that’d catch light with Sybarite Green, and the Sybarite Green edges and highlights with Gauss Blaster Green. You can carefully glaze between the Sybarite and Gauss Blaster on the pauldron and helmet to improve the transition, but because it’s so small an area it isn’t imperative.

 

My son and I are new to the game and are building our first teams with what we have - I have Storm of Celestus from the WU starter set (Castigator Prime, 2x Castigators and a gryph-hound), my son so far has five clanrats from the paint set.

What is the easiest way to flesh out these four to a full team? Warcrying has a few options but I can't seem to find them for sale on the Warhammer site, or they require buying a full box.

My small AL force is slowly growing, unfortunately I paint very slow! Legs, arms and head are Solar Auxilia, Skitarii torso, cloak and backpack, Astartes scout shotgun.