Mortifactors

I’ve had lots of space marines since the dawn of time. I have a lot of the primaris marines since they came out. I just haven’t painted lots as if i’m honest i couldn’t get inspired by a chapter. I have nearly 3000 points of Salamanders and didn’t want to start again or add units to them meaning I wouldn’t paint my original models.

Since I started painting lots of different models, Orks, Drukhari, and Lumineth I’ve found my style and really like a certain way of painting, a mix between crisp details but with a lazy dirty almost grime-dark approach. I wanted to find a space marine chapter no one else was really doing online so I could take inspiration from the artwork but ultimately find my own way and make them my own.

Soul Haunters

Doing some research I just couldn’t find much, I did some soul haunters which are a blast to paint but ultimately someone elses homebrew chapter and I found it very formulaic. I was re-listening to the Uriel Ventris books that I read many a moon ago and there they were, the mortifactors. I started researching and found they were in the 3rd war for armaggeddon (one of my favourite parts of the lore). They were second founding just just sang to me, I liked the artwork and thought I could change a couple of elements of their scheme to make it more fun and quick to paint. Namely the elbow and thigh plates/covers that are black in the artwork, I’ve chosen to use the bone colour.

My mortifactor vs artwork.

This Overall brings me to 3 painted. Not alot but I’m aiming to get these up to a squad of 5 in the next couple of days and then see how I can get progressing on some more. I’m ultimatley enjoying the ability to convert and add details to some of them but equally leaving them as plain primaris marines also when it feels right.

Here are some WIP’s shots too. I try to keep each marine under 2 hours. I am quick and sloppy but I’m really happy with the result – Thanks for reading!

References
Large Mortifcator Space Marine image from https://www.deviantart.com/pashkov202/gallery