Heresy Painting Time: White Scars Unleashed

So I've finally had the time and the parts to catch up with the Tale of X Gamers: Heresy Edition painting group I joined up for over at Pete's blog, Thefieldsofblood.com. Its proved a slight problem to get done due to my recent move to Melbourne and my need to get High Elves done for tournaments, but I've finally done it!


First some background; I decided to paint up a White Scars force, as:
a) I love general history of the Mongols and the style of Mongolian Hit'n'Run type warfare the White Scars employ, based on Lightning Strikes on Bikes, Landspeeders and generally mounted troops.
b) The paint scheme is a wonderful contrast of Red and White. White being a colour I've always found very challenging to do properly, so it gave me some practice.
c) With White Scars being fairly tribal due to their Mongol heritage, I get to try my hand at freehand symbols and markings to denote squads and company. Another thing I've always wanted to do but never had the courage before now.


The general theme of the army is the White Scars fighting to take back the Lionsgate Spaceport during the Battle for Terra. Sadly this is the only substantial battle the White Scars took part in during the Heresy, as Horus with the aid of Alpharius/Omegon wisely distracted us with Orks in the Chondax system during the Dropsite Massacre (things would have been different otherwise!!)

So without further ado, here is Squad Kerait which I painted as my initial squad of 10 Tactical Marines:

As you can see, I went kinda crazy on the freehand with Tactical symbols and White Scars Legion symbols on the shoulders. Its actually been surprisingly easier than I thought it would be! I've also gone with the Jagged Spike markings on the left legs to denote the 4th Company of the White Scars, and will carry through on every model I paint.

I have also, for the second part of the Tale, painted Squad Kerait's Rhino, Shite Utga (Stallion in Mongolian, that's Cyrillic on the Rhino if you're confused) as no White Scar worth his salt would be caught dead without his loyal steed.

Its not quite finished as I sadly don't have the paints to do the green of the viewing Lens on the roof hatchbut that should be sorted as soon as I can get to a GW.

Next up will be an old Metal Landspeeder I acquired at the HGC after some ladies dumped their adult sons long forgotten gaming stuff off for us to rummage through. Score! It was supposed to be this months unit but I sadly left the Oils I bought to paint it in my Jacket at the club and haven't been able to get it off Mark while he's in NZ.

Following that will be a unit of Bikers, which were gonna be all Jetbikes but GW then released their Beautiful Outrider Bike models, so the Jetbikes shall be saved for my command squad at a later date.

Laters all!