10 March 2022

Chaos Renegade 3

I went a bit Alpha Legion with this one. 

After doing the last two in brighter colours, I thought I'd go back to darker shades for this chap. As I've already done one in black I decided to shift to a dark blue with a strong contrasting colour for the trim.

After priming him black, he got an all-over coat of Dark Sea Blue. I just painted the whole figure to make it easier and save a bit of time. I was originally going to just add white for the highlight shade, but thought that adding a bright green would help keep the ocean tones going, so I used Emerald Green. After mixing it I layered it on thinly, as I wanted to keep the armour dark.

With that done I painted the ribbed bits on his legs and horns White, and went over them with Scorpy Green, then Yellow-Green, and then added White to brighten it more. I was basically going for the look people do on plasma guns, as I thought it be cool if it appeared that bits of his armour were glowing. After putting the final White highlight on I gave it a brush with homemade yellow wash. 


His backpack is a modern one as he didn't come with an original. It's just painted the same way as his armour, with the Chaos star and a few small areas picked out with Yellow Green. I did the same thing with his eyes and mouth grille.

To add a third colour, the boltgun is a basic job with Plate Metal washed with Nuln Oil.

The base is the usual Black Lava paste painted Ghost Grey, washed with Casandora Yellow and highlighted with Moon Dust.

So that's me out of Chaos Renegades... for now. They really are fantastic minis and way more imaginative then their modern counterparts. I've really enjoyed painting them and hopefully I can pick up some more in the future.

12 comments:

  1. Another great looking Chaos warrior Matt, the dark tones with the contrasting bright green really stands out.
    Hopefully it won't cost a fortune for you to be able to do some more ! LOL

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    1. Cheers, Dave! I do like the strongly contrasting colours and the bright green/yellow works really well with the deep blue-green. Here's hoping I can get some more renegades, and I'd love to find one or two of the heavy weapons models.

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  2. Really like this one Matt! Your method for painting black is so good! That green is a perfect contrast too.

    Hope you do find more to add to your collection!

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    1. Thanks, Dai, I appreciate that but there's actually no black except the primer LOL!

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  3. I'm really enjoying your colour choices on all the minis of this project. So cool!

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    1. Thanks, Suber, it's good to go with weird colour combinations sometimes!

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  4. A very menacing looking figures, mostly due to your excellent colour choices again.

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    1. Cheers, Joe, "menacing" is what I was going for so nice to know I nailed it!

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  5. My goodness, you've been productive again this week, Matt! This is one evil looking marine and I love the color scheme you chose. It fits the sculpt perfectly! I hope we'll get to see some more marines in the future. I'd like to see you tackle one of each of the chapters!

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    1. Thanks, Jeff! I've been churning out minis this week for some reason and it's been fun. The colours for this one look great, better than I thought they would, and they'd work well on a homemade chapter. I will hopefully be getting some more renegades in the future.

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  6. Not as bright as the other two, but I really like the scheme you've done on this one, the yellow green highlights really pop! and give a great luminous effect.

    I won't comment on the backpack as I obviously know nothing about them! 😂

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Haha! Sorry, Roger! The backpack is one that looks like a warped MkIII, so I'm guessing it was originally from a modern Death Guard model?

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