First real army getting painted, Trench Crusade Court, part 1

 So, while I've actually put paint on a lot of miniatures since late September, I have never painted a full, real army yet. Finally getting my Court of the Seven-Headed Serpent army in for Trench Crusade(I am partial to skirmish games a bit more than the Real Big Ones, and I like TTRPGs the most, even over wargames-but TC is awesome), I thought it might be cool to sorta catalogue the building, kitbashing, and painting process of a general noob in a little series. 

It goes without saying this army will be painted in the grimdark style. I have ideas on how I want them to look; whether or not I'll be saying "That's a fine looking army. WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT?!" will be up in the air. 

My chosen soundtrack for this is, surprisingly, a lot of 1349 and other assorted black metal. I know, shocking. 

So, the next photographs are just of the basic, new army; unassembled, I printed up the appropriate sized bases for them, and assembled the Praetor and the Desecrated Saint, both of which needed some. Particularly the Saint. I also filled in some gaps with Milliput. These are all the base models still. 

Desecrated Saint

Pic of most of the army. Then the Desecrated Saint(2 pics), Hunter of the Left Hand Path+Pit Locust, Praetor, and Sorcerer

Starting off, I decided to work with the Hell Knights and Yoke Fiends. I knew I wanted to add chains, barbed wire, skulls, inverted crosses, and all that good stuff to them, so I started attaching stuff to places, drilling out skulls and so on. Added a couple of demonic skulls as shoulder armor and a shield deco for the Yoke Fiends, as well as some additional weapon embellishments. Also was messing with some tissue + cigarette paper + PVA glue + water + a variety of speedpaints and washes to make flayed skin to add for cloaks and pieces later. (Grimdark Compendium Youtube Channel has been a wealth of ideas for this bunch.) 

After all of that, I added a few more embellishments, as well as a pass with some Green Stuff putty mixed with water(Tamiya + glue is stickier, but it's very cold out and my painting place isn't too well ventilated, so I went with the lesser fumes. I do use some fume-y stuff sometimes in winter, but this took me a little while to do, compared to the shorter bursts of working with things like a bit of Dirty Down or assembling models or whatnot.) I then carved up some of the putty areas to add some damage and weathering, and then some cheesecloth to a mace handle. (in hindsight, I shouldn't have dyed it yet due to it probably being hit by primer, but oh well. At least I see how the color looks.) Green stuff pictured in next bunch. 

From here, we did the other weathering passes. First with some AK corrosion texture to anyplace that seemed like it could be rusty, and then with some Vallejo Thick Mud to greaves and lower capes and armor and stuff. 

And the crew is now ready to prime! 

Part 2 soon, with the priming and drybrushing. Might go over the color choices then too, but I am still milling over a couple of those.