Half Hour Heresy: Easy Emperor's Children! [How I Paint Things]

Look how short that required paint list is!

The Emperor's Children are a Legion where everyone has their own interpretation of how they ought to look. Even with Citadel-branded paints which bear names related to the sons of Fulgrim, getting the 'right' shade of purple depends as much on one's taste as a practiced eye - as with most of the Heresy era miniatures, there's no right answer. Finding a colour primer you like and sticking to that takes the hard part out of the equation!

Today's video does feature some odd lighting due to an issue Vegas had with reading the recording; after converting and adjusting it to something that could be used, I had to eyeball the contrast and lighting settings. It's not perfect, but the picture in the thumbnail and splash page at the end of the video is the most accurate.

00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Priming the Miniature: Getting the Right Purple!
02:31 - Painting Time
09:09 - Chipping Astartes Armour
12:49 - The Finished Marine

Thanks to Producer Patrons Alan Nuttall, Kyrie Crawford, Trainboy, Jimmy, and Rod - as well as all the other Patrons that made this video possible, and Exit23 Games for recording equipment that helps keep the channel ticking over! Find out more at the following links:

THE BASE: Stirland Mud, Ryza Rust, Eldar Flesh. Paint base rim in Rhinox Hide. Done!

PAINTS USED:

PRIMERS:
Matt Black (Army Painter)
Alien Purple (Vallejo Primer Spray)

CITADEL:
Fenrisian Grey (Layer)
Iron Hands Steel (Base)
Retributor Armour (Base)
"Marine Juice" - Lahmian Medium, Reikland Fleshshade, Nuln Oil
Liberator Gold (Layer)
Necron Compound (Dry)
Rhinox Hide (Base)
Dechala Lilac (Layer)

VALLEJO:
German Grey

VARNISHES:
Vallejo Matt Varnish Spray

[Verdigris]

"If you do want a deeper purple..." Then you have to hire Ritchie Blackmore. ;)

[johnkelley]

The figure looks great and I like the damage to the armor! Thanks for sharing this.

[Lestat]

Amazing results with little effort! Thank you for your channel.

[aaronbrown]

Nice!

I started using Marine Juice (tho I use the Army Painter equivalents) and IMO it's the best wash for nearly all sci-fi minis. I have tons of DeadZone minis bucketed in that stuff. It's great!

[campbell]

Looks absolutely amazing. Will definitely give this one a go for my own Emperor's Children.

[timothyyoung]

Looks great. Man, that's a nice purple : D

[iowagrognard]

Well done! An interesting statistic would be just how many 40k armies you're responsible for helping people get painted.

[clysmic]

Lovely fast scheme! I’m going to have to give the chipping a go it really adds to the 30k feel.

[felipeopazo]

Awesome! I paint my marines as soul drinkers, but i don't really know how to paint miniatures and it has proven quite dificult 😅 thanks a lot for the tutorial

[NaktheCow]

Oooh I'm going to borrow notes from this for Grymkin Hollowmen

[sprinkleLPs]

Once youve done all the legions, if you havent already, could you do a video showing them all?

[loupiscanis]

Thank you, Troy,
Smash th Smurfs !
🐺

[phils]

Love your heresy marines, done a few in your style myself now.

Are you planning on doing a video for the new mk6 marines?

[jhilal]

How about "Mark's Marine Shade" instead of "Mark's Marine Juice"?

[richardrussell]

The 'single right answer' to "How long is a piece of string?" is "Twice the distance from the middle to one end" 🤣😛

[andreaspersson]

Very unrelated to the video topic, but...

Have you had a chance to try out Army Painter Speed Paints? Any opinions? (I'm getting tempted, and am considering getting a set for a Stargrave crew, since my usual dirty technique doesn't work as well with space, imho)

[groltag]

Just a quick question. If I sprayed the model entirely white rather than attempting the Zenithal. Then coated the model in Chemos purple. It'd still work out well right?

[benmacleod]

Hahaha I refer to my marine juice as multi purpose marine wash

[sagacity]

Hey sledge what colours did you use for the base?

[SgtMudbug]

My brother and I are talking about making some kill teams for 30k, emperors children sound like a neat choice for a team.