Ultramarine in MKVI Power Armour

Here is an Ultramarine in MKVI power armour from the Horus Heresy Age of Darkness boxset.

You’ll notice that the roman numerals on the right knee are ‘XX’. This was supposed to represent a company number, not the legion number, but lots of people were thinking this was Alpha Legion instead of Ultramarines, so I have since changed this to ‘XIII’.

These ‘beaky’ marines are really a pleasure to paint. They look great and you can paint them to a fairly high standard quite quickly.

Materials used

• Citadel paints
  • Macragge Blue
  • Calgar Blue
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Leadbelcher
  • Nuln Oil
  • Stormhost Silver
  • Retributor Gold
  • Liberator Gold
  • Mephiston Red
  • Fire Dragon Bright
  • Dryad Bark
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Baneblade Brown
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Castellan Green
  • Straken Green
  • Abaddon Black
  • Mechanicus Standard Grey
  • Eshin Grey
  • Dawnstone
• White ink (this wasn’t needed in hindsight)
• Gamers Grass tiny tufts
• Homemade pigment powder using pastels
• Vallejo matt varnish
• Black and white Stynlrez primers