The Red Angel Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters Commission

The Red Angel, Herald in Red, Lord of the World Eaters. 

This model was painted an filmed in full 4K Ultra HD and the footage is being worked on as we speak. 

VIDEO TUTORIAL 

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World Eaters Rhino and PDF Tutorial December.

Today we have a happy little rhino for you all, filled with the 12th's finest shock troops. Storm Troopers don't have anything on these boys. 

December will see the release of the World Eaters PDF Tutroial and a special video only available this xmas. 

Come join in the Fun!

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Savage Messiah; Angron Primarch Commission

Parasites have lauded victory
Scorching permeations blaze to seize the day
Felt like an eternity, penance has been paid
So here it is for all to see, your judgment now is scathed

Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7

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Blood Soaked Messiah; Angron Primarch Commission

"What would you know of struggle, Perfect Son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? When have you had to do anything more than tally compliances and polish your armour?" [...] "The people of your world named you Great One. The people of mine called me Slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilization to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian high-riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour."

Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7

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Angorn the Eater of Worlds. Lord of the Red Sands. Warlord of the World Eaters

Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush

Airbrush: Iwata CR Plus High Line

Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes

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Angron Primarch of the World Eaters

"Let history mark my words well, for I care nothing about who sits proud on the Throne of Terra when the last day dawns. Horus is a fine commander, but that’s the limit of my admiration for that arrogant, preening bastard. I joined his rebellion because I can tolerate him easier than I can endure the abomination that names himself Master of Mankind. You want the truth of my life and death? I am Angron, the Eater of Worlds, and I am already dead. I died over a hundred years ago, in the mountains north of the city that enslaved me. I died after Desh’elika."

—Primarch Angron.

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This was the first of the Primarch models to be released and I instantly snapped him up. The problem then being that I felt inadequate to the task of painting such a sublime model. And the model really is sublime. I could wax lyrical about the movement of the piece, how Angron is bunched like a hunting cat, or concentrate of the details...but these observations are contrite - you can see all of these things for yourselves. 

This is certainly a miniature with presence. 

So I kept the kit under the proverbial bed and waited until the day to arrive where I felt I was equal to the task. As other artists took on the beast the feeling of inadequacy only grew. I think this is quite a common phenomenon in our circle of hobbyists. We all have one model squirreled away waiting for the dayu for our skill to catch up with our creativity. Aaron Debski' Bowden's masterful "Betrayer" gave me the kick in the balls I needed to clean and prime him. 

The model was painted with a basecoat of Ubral Umber from Privateer Press and given successive thin highlights of Vallejo Liquid Metallic Gold. I wanted to give the impression that the nails were singing in his skull, so I mixed a little red into the base colour of his skin. I also painted a few scars into his face. I'd love to try and paint an Angron with his 'face blasted to the bone' (Butcher's Nails audio drama). I added a little spittle to his teeth for the extra layer of interest. 

The red was painted with a base layer of blood red from reaper master paints and shaded with ultra marine blue from the same company. By shading a colour with a colour, instead of say black, you add visual interest that is appetizing to the eye. 

The gore was created with Tamiya red with a touch of black ink added. 

I'm not sure why but this Primarch feels the most personal to me. It's the one that I've struggled with the most and one that has left the deepest impression on me. Perhaps a post for another time. I'd like to leave you with my favourite quote from Betrayer:

"You kept that mule Kor Phaeron. Russ kept his kin-friends. The Lion kept Luther. Humans - brothers and foster fathers - saved and raised into Legion ranks. But not me. Not Angron, no. Did the Emperor teleport his gold-wrapped Custodians down to help me and my army? No. Did he free the War Hounds and order them to battle, fight alongside me? No. Did he save my brothers and sisters the way he spared and honoured the Lion's closest kin? The way he honoured Kor Phaeron? No, no and no. No mercy for Angron. Angron the Oathbreaker. Angron the Betrayer,"
-Angron

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