Raven Guard

The Raven Guard are another of the First Founding Legions to have a dark secret in their past. Unlike the Dark Angels or Blood Angels this secret is truly in the past. The Chapter excels in pinpoint surgical strikes and makes heavy use of Drop Pods, Jump Packs and the like in order to achieve maximum surprise. Colours and markings from Index Astartes: Raven Guard.

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Raven Guard Assault Squad Sergeant

The Raven Guard are a neat army - I like the idea of death raining from the skies as legions of black armoured warriors descend by drop pod or on tongues of flame jetting from their Jump Packs. This guy is one of my early attempts at layered highlights and still needs decals but that'll have to wait until I get some RG ones...

Painting Recipe

Pretty simple.Chaos Black undercoat sprayed on. Cover any deficiencies with nice thin Chaos Black then layers of Chaos Black/Shadow Grey. I think it has 3 -4 layers, 1st is 80/20 CB/SG, then 60/40, then I jumped to 20/80 and added a final touch of plain Shadow Grey on the high points. Gave it a couple of coats of very thin black glaze (10 parts water to 1 part ink) to tie the shades together. Then Dulcote which also helps tie things together.

To be honest I'm not sure how they got that sort of 'feathered' or 'dusted on' look, which is a pity 'cos it's a neat effect. I think I may have carefully drybrushed the middle two coats on, with a little more paint than usual drybrushing has, rather than layered them properly, but I'm not exactly sure, guess old age must be creeping up on me...

I listed most of my techniques for mixing paint and layering in my Sons of Guilliman 'how-to' so just click the link for more info. If you have any more specific questions then please e-mail me at the address below and I'll do my best to help...