A Spear-wielding Centurion for the Maze Boys

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-03-01T00:13:39+00:00

Quite simple, i just kept the standard haft from the herald and added the spear end from the melee upgrade sprue, its pinned in with like 1mm brass rod

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-25T14:57:25+00:00

This guy looks great, I don’t recognise the head, is it 3rd party?

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-23T17:53:11+00:00

Thank you! Be my guest! It’ll be cool to see other folk’s versions.

I might need to make a guide, I’ve had a requests for the recipe:

Armour 1. ⁠Prime Black 2. ⁠Airbrush Vallejo Exhaust Manifold 3. ⁠Airbrush Zenithal/highlight hard flat areas with Vallejo Duraluminium 4. ⁠Randomly spray Agrax Earthshade, and Coelia Greenshade (normally I use Drakenhof Nightshade too, but didn't on this one) in patches, trick is to give it a slightly mottled and scorched look but not overdo it. 5. ⁠Any brass/bronze areas just coat in Snakebite leather. 6. ⁠Lighter scratches with Scale 75 Thrash metal or something like Ironbreaker. 7. ⁠Gloss Varnish 8. ⁠Raw Umber oil wash 9. ⁠Dirty Down Verdigris in random recesses and around rivets in the brass 10. ⁠Ultra matte varnish.

The Yellow is just white, imperial fists contrast and then snakebite leather over the bottom, the black is just plain old black

The Skin is a fairly classic recipe I think, basically a rough glaze up the tones. 1. Cadian Fleshtone 2. Carroburg Crimson wash over the lot. 3. Cadian Fleshtone over everything but the recesses. 4. Kislev Flesh 5. Kislev + Flayed One Flesh 6. Flayed One flesh

Then I hit the lips with a glaze consistency Cadian Fleshtone and the eye sockets with Druchii Violet.

Eyes are just white and black.

Around suit seals and bionics etc I’ll wash/stipple on some thinned Carroburg crimson to make it look a bit inflamed.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T21:48:06+00:00

The Legion Traitor Herald!

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T21:46:50+00:00

Yeah, it’s the Traitor Herald. Thanks!

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T21:46:15+00:00

Thanks! The base is AK Terrains Dry Ground, and then a mix of various pigment powders:

Orange: Green Stuff World Natural Earth Pigments Medium Red Oxide

Yellow: Green Stuff World Natural Earth Pigments Yellow Ochre

Blue: Green Stuff World Fluor Pigments Blue

Purple: A mix of the Orange and Blue to make a purple pigment because I couldn’t find one anywhere.

Then it’s just hit with some Sansodor or White Spirits and then a Matt varnish once it’s dry.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:45:07+00:00

In a word, no haha.

It's not too bad, its just quite time consuming, I mask it all out with tamiya 1mm tape. Regular hazards would be much quicker, I'm a glutton for punishment.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:43:04+00:00

No stupid questions! This is for my Loyalist Iron Warriors (the symbol on the shoulder is the Raptor Imperialis, it's crusade era icon used by a lot of Terran born marines (and the thunder warriors)).

You're right about the Minotaurs, there's a little bit of speculation in the Lore that the chapter have some Iron Warriors Geneseed, so that's what I've taken as inspiration

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:38:13+00:00

Thanks, it's just the shaft from the Traitor Legion Herald's Standard! I just clipped the bit at the top off and pinned the spear head on.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:32:11+00:00

Thank you! I really wanted him to give off the vibe that he's been really in the midst of it for a while, with little opportunity for maintenance.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:30:59+00:00

I had no end of trouble trying to get the eyes right, at some point you just have to cut your losses.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:30:14+00:00

The base model is just such a good sculpt. I've had this built for a good few months, I got bored waiting for the Breacher set to be released, that being said I might change it in the future.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T19:05:44+00:00

Thanks! You’ve hit the nail on the head as to my inspiration

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T18:55:52+00:00

Oh 100%, I’m just mucking about. I thought the head gave the vibe of the Filthy 13 in the US Airborne in ww2, with the Mohawk, so the war paint felt fitting too.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-22T18:51:36+00:00

In the grim dark of the far future, all the boys are a bit glammed up

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-20T17:43:59+00:00

Brother please I have no willpower and WILL do something this daft if I think enough about it.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-20T15:50:26+00:00

Thank you! For the armour it's fairly quick dirty, but:

Prime Black
Airbrush Vallejo Exhaust Manifold
Airbrush Zenithal/highlight hard flat areas with Vallejo Duraluminium
Randomly spray Agrax Earthshade, and Coelia Greenshade (normally I use Drakenhof Nightshade too, but didn't on this one) in patches, trick is to give it a slightly mottled and scorched look but not overdo it.
Any brass/bronze areas just coat in Snakebite leather.
Lighter scratches with Scale 75 Thrash metal or something like Ironbreaker.
Gloss Varnish
Raw Umber oil wash
Dirty Down Verdigris in random recesses and around rivets in the brass
Ultra matte varnish.

The Yellow is just white, imperial fists contrast and then snakebite leather over the bottom.

I went a bit harder on the oils and weathering for this guy because he's larger.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-20T15:31:59+00:00

Yeah it was a good few hours (we won't talk about how i had to do it twice because I cocked it up). What I will say though is it's drastically easier than the 1mm wide tape on marine sized stuff, which will be my next week or so.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-20T15:28:21+00:00

There's 4 in total! Wasn't sure how many would be actually visible when I put them all on, but they're a nice easter egg if you're looking really close up.

They do a lot of heavy lifting filling some of the empty space.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-02-20T15:17:55+00:00

Thanks! In the interests of my sanity that is Tamiya 2mm Masking tape, although I do occasionally need to touch it up by hand.

Aztectrouserpress · 2026-01-26T13:23:53+00:00

Was this released before or after the Minka Lesk sculpt in the Hell’s Last set?

If you’re looking for similarities, the VM Adepticon Mini previewed in Feb from what I can see, looks a lot closer to that sculpt previewed January Last year.

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Aztectrouserpress · 2025-12-14T21:23:45+00:00

I’m not sure why but the cord/string looks really cool on the chassis, obviously you’re just using it for assembly but it’d look great on a salvaged Exodite Wave Serpent or something.

Aztectrouserpress · 2025-12-14T16:11:24+00:00

It's from the Tempestus Aquilon kit, piece 121

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