I do not paint one color to completion like some folk do, but instead I paint in “like layers” because I am not good or steady enough to not splatter paint all over my finished highlights. I really wanted to paint a Marine army in black armour, but my friend who is a long time player already had Black Templars. warhammer 40k Ravin Guard "raptors" army. I adore high levels of contrast on a mini or in a squad, and I wanted the areas between black and white to skew in the direction of grey, not blue or green like many people do with black. Built using WordPress. Instead of drybrushing, I would edge highlight. It think it works well and really allows the model to pop, but man oh man,is it time-consuming. It was as if Games Workshop had created a Space Marine Chapter just for me! Space Marines are great in Kill Team, and Raven Guard get one of the more powerful chapter traits, counting as obscured from enemy models (and thus incurring the -1 penalty to be hit by ranged attacks) when they are more than 12″ from the enemy model shooting at them. Not a happy bunny. Taxonomy. Apply to half of the area on the diagonal. Ordered a replacement but it’s coming from the USA so not sure how long that’ll take. They have some great dynamic poses and their stripped down armor helps convey the agility you’d expect from melee shock troops. This led to some interesting quirks where Crimson Fists and Raptors existed before their own founding chapters. I usually don’t go all the way up to Troll slayer on regular dudes, but reserve it for characters with a lot of red on them, like chaplains and captains. These would essentially be replaced by the 4th edition Space Marines Codex, which released with a model for the Raven Guard’s Captain of the Third Company, Kayvaan Shrike. They did not receive separate new rules until 7th edition, when the release of the Kau’yon and Mont’ka campaign books re-introduced rules for them along with rules for White Scars and T’au. And here’s the pics. If applicable. 11a Anmerkung: Was aus den Raven Guard-Elementen wurde, die seit dem Großen Kreuzzug als unabhängige Flotten getrennt von der … I primed and sprayed the model mostly disassembled since I wanted the arms and helmet to be fully white while the body was black. This won’t help you with injury rolls (those require you be within 1″ of a piece of terrain and that terrain be between you and the firing model), but it will allow you to more safely position your Raven Guard Marines in the open, or cross open spaces on the board without fear of losing the major benefits of cover. They both finish differently, and any touch-ups in Abaddon are noticeable.