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Spirit of the Ghost
You who wonder in the aether
You who stalk in the shadows
You who lead
Between the moss covered trees
Lend me your primal power
and the wisdom of your countless heads
Show me the hidden path and the moonlit way
Fierce wraith
Hunt with me in my solitude
Guard me as I move through this universe
Hydra Dominatus
– Hound, Ghost, Blessed of the Greenman, 20th Legion Astartes
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The Emperor Protects,
The ghost legion dives deeper into the spiraling madness of the Thorn Moons Crusade. It’s warriors, hidden for millennia, sleeping a dreamless death state and woken for duty have gone native, become one with the forest.
This is a turning point for the army – this squad, a dark, black, esoteric group of individual warriors finishes the Astartes portion of the project for the time being. Recognizably related in hues and shades to the previous Ghost Legionnaires, but much more grim and dark, the infiltrator team is the bridge into the children of the Moons, a tribal spin of the Thorn Moons planetary defense forces, with embedded Legion operatives and some Blanhitsu voodoo that is coming next.
I’ve taken this opportunity to show where the army is at with a great overcast day to shoot some iPhone camera magic.
So here you go!
IRON SLEET 
WOW!
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Brilliant army. The slightly darker aspect works very well for these grim warriors and the army come together as a whole really well. It just looks like it has stepped out of the mist of a forest, and could disappear back at any moment.
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Super fucking cool, pardon my french 😀
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WOW!
Loving the group aesthetic.
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Great aesthetic once more!!possible to know the basic layer you use on these??thnks in advance..
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Thanks 🙂 Starting with black prime, I airbrush black green and black blue on, then switch to egg shell like green and pale light blue, and airbrush those in there selectively only from angles light would hit the models, then it’s green and blue oil paint and weathering 🙂 It’s a little more complex than I’d like but looks like if I can finish a unit a month, which isn’t a lot really, I still surprise myself and have an army ready before I noticed.
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Grim and deadly, yet hauntingly beautiful – I absolutely love this project, and the latest additions to it. Bravo!
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Such a great looking “little” army. Creepy and scary and awesomely cool.
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Truly amazing stuff! Wonderfully inspired! ❤
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Bloody lovely stuff! You’ve managed to take models I don’t really like (Reivers) and turned them into something I can’t stop looking at. I love the metallic undersuit showing through.
And that dreadnought is just something else!
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Really bloody cool. The colour pallet is so grim and dark and just oozes coolness.
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Inspirational as always! 😄 I really like the way you’ve made the primaris models look grim and gritty as opposed to the smooth expressions these models have inherently. This is a great example of what can actually be achieved with these models when thinking a little outside the box.
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Well I absolutely love these 🙂 I love the added grittyness and survivor-look to them, and they should tee into the more twisted denizens of the Thorn Moons perfectly 🙂
Also I’ve said it before, but the more members of the XX there are in the picture the more it looks like an army of ghosts. A Spirithost made 40k 😉
Great work 🙂
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Great moment of reading and seeing for me, as always on IS.
Is the Ghost poem from you Migsula ?
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Thanks. Yes. I’ve hacked together paragraphs of Native American prayer / warrior credo to fit the Legion and ghost narrative / warhammer 40000.
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