MC Farlane Primaris Ultramarine figure customization project

Astartes without purity seals? No way!

As final touches for my project I decided to approach hand-made purity seals. Personally I don’t like that seal and parchment from original riffle, it looks like scaled-up mini figure, absolutely not detailed and not realistic at all.First I recreated “seals” as copy of original one – mine was created from GreenStuff, then painted Citadel…

Shield, details and weathering

My take of shoulder shield design finalized as some kind of campaign specific. It is hand painted with Citadel/Vallejo Game acrylics with some decals added from GreenStuffWorld set – I really like how it ended up – then some more weathering and its done.Additional decals and weathering was applied on a figure, looks wear and…

A project within the project

Ultramarine sword getting proper shape, following my drawing, I started to recreate a sword from plain pla plates. In meantime, SpaceMarine was a bit weathered and flat black was applied on armor joints and future gold trims. I’m always putting black base before gold application – its just looks better that way 🙂 Additional sword…

Imperialis

AK Xtreme metal gold/bronze/and steel metallic paints were used to paint Imperialis and shoulder icons.I was a hell of masking – but effect is just worth it! AX Xtreme Metal – easy to use – great effects! Best metallics imho.

Boy in blue…

I applied Vallejo Chipping medium and started to paint blue shades from Vallejo Mecha range. I was not so happy with chipping effects – it was way to heavy I expected and planned… Anyhow – I was planning to pain this marine as really beaten up veteran – so maybe this chipping will work fine.…

Iron Halo? Why not!

I was still missing something for my Ultra Veteran, maybe Iron Halo? Affirmative! Did quick paper drawing to get right proportions, then 1,5mm pla-plates were used. For spikes, I took plastic rod from sprues and fixed it to electric hobby drill (Parkside brand from Lidl – love it!), then sanding blocks did the job well!…

More details!

I found in my WH40k bit-box nice resin ultramarine aquila that fit the leg beautifully! Some other plastic details added here and there – looks good! Next, trims went on for torso and leg parts. Ultramarine badass