I finished my first model, the Revenger, sometime in September. I used mostly the P3s that I bought at the Privateer booth with some supplemental metallics I already owned. This was my first experience with what I now know are the infamous P3 metallics. I get home and my pot of Rhulic Gold was a goopy mess.
I just wasn't that impressed with the Revenger, the colors, the paint job, none of it. By the time I got to Kreoss I had made some adjustments to the scheme. The off-white came across as more of a white that I built up from tans and the wine red of the studio scheme had turned more of a typical red. I'm not really big on the bronze/gold family of metallic colors so I opted to paint the armor a golden yellow. I felt better about the actual painting for Kreoss than I did the previous model. But I still didn't care for the colors.
At this point I painted a couple of unit leaders and a solo which I will get to in another article. Then the MKII field test of Hordes came out and I bought a bunch of Trollbloods stuff and put most of it together. It was probably another six weeks before I painted another model.
When I finally got back around to painting it was time for the Repenter. I had given it plenty of thought and I really wanted to ditch those warm browns that I was using for the armor. I also wanted to try and get a colder feel out of the white. I switched the browns to grays, started building up to white from gray, instead of tans. I also decided to make more use of chrome metallics. I began using different shades of red than I had been previously which gives it more of a maroonish red feel than a proper red. I also highlighted the red with a very thin application of Citadel's Warlock Purple which gives the red tones a colder feel. It's more obvious in person than it is in the pic.
There really isn't much to say about the Crusader. I just ported over the techniques and colors I had used for the Repenter and called it a day.
I ended the battlebox on a much higher note than I had started with. A friend of mine had purchased a Crusader, Repenter, and Revenger (and a handful of Choir blisters) in a bargain bin at the FLGS back in Utah. I was able to pick those up from him in trade so I'll get the Revenger right next time. Add to that the new Kreoss sculpt and I'll have a pretty consistent and much better looking battlebox set. It should come in handy for that day when I apply to be a PG.
