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Painting Primarchs Easy – Perturabo Lord of Iron

By Rob Baer | August 3rd, 2015 | Categories: Chaos Space Marines, Horus Heresy, How To Tutorial, Iron Warriors, Warhammer 40k
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You have to see this spectacular painting guide for the newest primarch to hit the scene: Perturabo the Lord of Iron!

Battlebunnies just posted up this guide that I feel like is a must see. These guys really keep the hobby going for 30k, and cover all the big events that Games Workshop puts on! So make sure to visit their page and like them on Facebook!
Hello Everyone.
It’s been a little while now since Perturabo has been released. He is the second Primarch for my  second Legion, and he has been a long time coming. So just thought I would show him off and let you know how I did him.
Firstly he is a very flat Primarch painting angles wise. So I glued him completely together first and under coated him chaos black.
Then I basecoated his armour with a mix of 50:50 Leadbelcher to Ironbreaker (or alternatively Iron Hand Silver as is the same colour). Then a highlight drybrush of Runefang steel was added from top down over all silver plate. This was then Purity Sealed.

 

Then I blobbed on small spots (millimetre square) of Burnt umber oil paint (for those of you who have a fit and decide this is too complicated at this point STOP, it is easier more forgiving and more manipulative than any Games Workshop glaze or ink – please trust me and continue) over his armour. I then let it set in slightly and flooded the model with white spirits being careful not to touch the oil paint at this point with the brush, just let the liquid spread to it (put white spirits in 2 egg cups, one for clean and one for dirty). Then after that with a standard brush with white spirits you drag it downwards to create a streak. The less defined tide line there is the better.
Add more and repeat / remove until you are happy. Just try to do within an hour. Then here and there add slight bits of the dirty egg cup oil white spirits straight into the gaps.

 

After that I painted the pterges brass Scorpion and drybrushed up with Runelord Brass, then lightly inked with Druchi Violet, followed by a patchy wash of Agrax Earthshade.
The chevrons were painted with Averland Yellow base (2 x thinned coats), then over painted with Yriel yellow. This was then glazed with Casandora Yellow. Then a thin layer of Flash Gitz yellow was applied To highlight the yellow line. A further thin ultra fine line of 2:1 Screaming skull and Flash Gitz was added to the top of the screws and yellow line.
Then I painted the armour trims and belt with Vallejo liquid gold – Old Gold (love this paint). Shake it for about 4 minutes (or longer if an old pot), then either pour a small bit out and use immediately over a trim at a time or straight from the pot. This paint dries really quickly so ideally you would do one limb, then wipe the paintbrush and stir the small paint in the pallet you have set up or close and shake the pot again. If you fail to do this it gets clumpy. You can add pure alcohol I believe to the pallet to thin it too.
When that is all painted you need to glaze the gold with Agrax Earth shade once then leave to dry. Then glaze again with Agrax only when fully dry!!! Then a light highlight from above with Runefang steel adds some more definition.
I then painted the armour joint ribbing codex grey and applied 2+ glazes of Nuln oil to turn black.

 

The guns were painted 50:50 Leadbelcher and Iron breaker and then zenithal’d with Runefang Steel.
The trims were Brass Scorpion. The guns were then washed with Nuln oil. The barrels were drybrushed with chaos black.

 

 

 

The face was painted with Cadian flesh tone then a light wash around the eyes of Druchi Violet and Casandora yellow was applied before a light wash of Seraphim sepia. Then the skin was layered up with lighter flesh colours.

 

The base Knight was painted as per the House raven painting guide in White Dwarf.
Very happy with him. Though I’m sure I will be tweaking bits here and there for weeks. Looking forward to getting transfers on the rest of the Legion and onto some boards for finished photos.
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About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.

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