I Am Alpharius

I slept on it and decided to repaint the second Word Bearer as an Alpha Legionnaire, called (what else) Alpharius. I haven't done very much today, just a little bit of work on the armour of the World Eater and trying out a fun new method for the Alpha Legionnaire. I painted all the red armour panels in Stormhost Silver and then washed it with a mix of Biel-Tan Green and Contrast Asurmen Blue to make a funky sort of metallic blue-green. I'm in two minds as to whether or not to paint some green scales on some parts of the armour, or just to do some Alpha Legion iconography on the blank right shoulder pad. After all, the Legion icon would go on the left, but... there's a daemonic head on that pad.

There's debate as to where the Alpha Legion stand in the 41st Millenium, but this Legionnaire certainly looks like a full on agent of the Ruinous Powers. On the other hand, this is the Alpha Legion, and everything they say is a lie of some kind... just what this particular Marine is doing in the retinue of the Blessed Lady, who can say. Perhaps not even the Marine themselves!