Warhammer 40000
The First 500 Assemble – Painting Crimson Fists
There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and protector.
Battle cry of the Crimson Fist
Yesterday I talked about how DIYing my Marines was not working for me, and I delved back into my childhood to pick a Chapter I was already really into and it came down to the Crimson Fists. Beaten and bloody after the devestation of the Rynn’s World incident they are in the midst of rebuilding their chapter. So in this spirit I picked my first 500 points with an aim to not use anything fancy, keeping it to basic models and equipment to represent the sparse surviving equipment available to the chapter, while also making use of unpainted miniatures I already own.
Naming characters and squads is one of the more interesting parts of building a list for me, as it changes a bunch of text and toys into little people with their own stories. So here we have Captain Huron Grimm, as I would like to think that the former first sergeant of the 2nd company would have been granted a command of his own following Rynn’s World, so I’m promoting him. The rest of his force will have to get new names however, and considering the Portugese, Greek and Roman origin of many of the official Crimson Fist names I will have a wide pool of available surnames to work from.
Picking through the piles of sprues and half built models in my bitz box, I’ve assembled the component parts of the entire force ready to be put together. It’s now just a case of waiting for my next day off, and hoping that the humidity drops off a bit so I can use a spray primer. I find that painting an army is one of the more difficult parts of the hobby, I’m more a gamer and a modeller, so one of the most important things I try to get done when painting is to have clear set of instructions of what I want to get done.
I would work out how to paint my models by trial and error, back when I were a lad before all this new fangled technology came along. 
These days though you can find hobbyists out there who have provided the recipe they have used, for my Crimson Fists I’m going to use the recipe posted by The Hammer over at KANTOR BASE, which I have included below.
Preparation
1 – Clean and assemble models.
2 – Glue sand to the tops of the bases.
3 – Spray with Black Primer.Blue
1 – Start with a basecoat of Necron Abyss.
2 – Then liberally highlight with Regal Blue. Be sure to cover all edges while doing this. I covered abut a third of the blue armour in this stage.
3 – Carefully pick out all the edges with Ultramarines Blue.
4 – Pick out the most pronounced edges with Space Wolves Grey.
5 – Wash all over the blue areas with Asurmen Blue.Crimson
1 – Start with a basecoat of Mechrite Red.
2 – Carefully pick out the edges with Blood Red.
3 – Wash with Gryphonne SepiaKhaki
1 – Basecoat with Khemri Brown.
2 – Highlight with Kommando Khaki, leaving the previous colour only in the recesses.
3 – Make small highlights with Bleached bone.
4 – Wash with Delvan Mud.Black
1 – Basecoat with Chaos Black.
2 – Liberally highlight with Adeptus Battlegrey.
3 – Carefully pick out the edges with Codex Grey.
4 – Pick out raised edges with Fortress Grey.
5 – Wash with Badab Black.Metal
1 – Basecoat with Boltgun Metal.
2 – Liberally highlight with Chainmail
3 – Pick out raised edges and wing tips with Mithral Silver
4 – Wash with Badab Black.
5 – Lightly Drybrush blades with Mithral SilverFlesh
1 – Basecoat with Dark Flesh
2 – Highlight with Tarllan Flesh, leaving the previous colour only visible in the recesses.
3 – Make small highlights with Elf Flesh, focusing on nose, eyebrow ridges etc.
4 – Make tiny highlights with Bleached Bone.
These instructions are invaluable, they break down a nicely painted model into basic steps that prevent the end result from feeling out of reach. Tomorrow is Saturday which means I will be home in the hours of daylight, so if I can put down MW3 for a bit I should be able to get some spray primer on a couple of test models and make a start on that tactical squad.
Arx Tyrannus – A Tale of Warmasters
The final destination on my Warrior Pilgrimage to Rynn’s World was my voyage to the Jadeberry Hill Necropolis. Upon that blasted knoll are to be found hundreds of hand-carved headstones, each one a memorial to a fellow battle brother of the Crimson Fists. Each stone is engraved with the battle honours of a hero whose mortal remains will never be recovered, his sacrifice an example to us all. I lingered at that bleak place for a day and a night, meditating upon the foes I had defeated and the terrible battles I had fought to return here and atone for my weakness. Come the morn, I was struck by a revelation. Though many of them had died here, my brethren had prevailed in the face of adversity. I would strive to emulate their example and prove myself worthy of the trust placed in me by my Chapter.
Preface to Chapter V, ‘Warrior Pilgrimages of the Angels of Death’
I have been in the hobby since 1996, when as an impressionable child random chance led me to discover a strange new type of toy, one you had to build and paint yourself. In 2003 I went to University and my tight budget meant that with the exception of Black Library, the Games Workshop hobby fell to the wayside. Fast forward several years to January 2011, and I pop into Games Workshop Loughborough on a whim and after chatting to Scott and reminiscing about ‘the good old days’ I spent over a hundred quid on Space Marines to get back into the game, and that’s where it all went wrong.
I was determined to build a DIY chapter, and spent ages designing colour schemes and fluff that the painting fell by the wayside. Despite buying enough extra kit in 2011 to build a company strength force I’ve painted two miniatures to completion. I had to concede that it was not working and a fresh start was needed with 2012 fast approaching, while discussing this with a friend today the following popped up in my News Feed.
Its a new week here in GW Nottingham, and after the dust has settled following our weekend of full metal carnage, the Necrons have carved themselves indellibly into the minds and more importantly strategies of everyone who stopped by the store! To acknowledge this fact, I (Thom) have decided to give myself willingly to… the cause of the Necrontyr and start my very own dynasty as part of an event we have come to call….*pause for effect* A TALE OF WARMASTERS *cue dramattic thunder and lightening* to take part all you will need is a new 500pt legal 40k army painted by the 5th December. thereafter we will be adding 250pts a month. For more details stop by the store and ask a member of staff. James has already made a start on his Imperial Fists, Matt’s Sons of Horus are looking awesome and Adam’s Eldar, backed by his vast experience, are looking to be formidable foes. Get into store now and get yourself signed up for A TALE OF WARMASTERS!
Well, it was like the Inquisition were listening in to my conversation and directed the team at GW Nottingham to save me from Heresy. 500 points by December that’s doable, and the 250 point expansions should be easy enough; at least I realised that was if I could figure out what it was about my DIY chapter that was causing me to spend so much time messing with the fluff and not so much on the models. That was when the epiphany struck, I didn’t love my DIY like I did the chapters I grew up reading about.
So I went back to my beginnings with the hobby, which while it was after the launch of Second Edition 40k, my first exposure to the fiction was the Rogue Trader book and I think this is partly where my love for the Space Marine comes from. The story of the Rynn’s World incident isn’t heroic in the traditional form, it is not a mighty victory but a last stand.
Only In Death Does Duty End.
Look at this artwork, these heroes are going to die and for some reason that appealed to me. There was something inherently noble in my young mind about this refusal to accept defeat, that they stood firm in the face of annihilation and spat in deaths eye. My affection for the Crimson Fists is surpassed only by the Ultramarines themselves, and it came (appropriately) down to the roll of a dice as to which of these two noble chapters I would devote my painting time to, and on a 4+ the Fists won it.
There is only The Emperor!He is our Shield and Protector!
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