Fallen inner circle

This week I painted some Inner Circle Companions. This was the first time in over a year where I managed to take a whole day to just paint. I must have been at it for at least 8 hours straight, and it felt good and it really got my hobby juices flowing. I really love these models has they have a very distinct Dark Angels feel with the robes, large swords and power armour that looks more like medieval armour.

I decided to paint them in "black" armour instead of dark green which is more in line with my fallen Dark Angels. I know they are not part of the original legion organisation but I think they look better in black. This means I will also paint the Lion black, once I get around to doing him.

The robes got a purple colour, which I am happy is also the box art colour, and not the bone white that was popular some time ago. When I painted my original Dark angels in the mid 90ths I decided to use purple robes even though it was not standard then and they go well with these newer models.

The trim got my standard rusted metal look, but it has this brownish tone that gives it a feel of gold unless you look closely.

All in all this was a very nice trio of models to paint. I did not do the standard this time so I might do another three in the future, or I use the standard for some other model. We will se.

Now I spend some time building stuff for opus while I am getting ready for Dreadtober. This year I will do the Saturnine Dreadnought, also for the first legion.