A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn.

Imperial Proverb

It’s more Armies on Parade aftermath from me this week. Last week I was finishing up a Silver Stars Vox Operator who missed the deadline. This week I’m converting Brother Garrett – last seen sneaking through a pipe in my 2024 Armies on Parade entry to gut an enemy sniper – into a properly based and game-ready member of my Assault Intercessors.

Modelling & Painting

Although I’m lucky enough to have a dedicated hobby space, I don’t have space to permanently store all my various display boards. Even before ‘Ambush at Pipeline 13’ was finished, I knew that I would be taking it apart and reusing the components elsewhere. Brother Garrett was easy to repurpose, and fairly simple as my LED miniatures go. He uses the techniques set out in my LED Eye Lens tutorial. The helmet eye lens effects are built around a Tru Opto Green 1.8mm LED with a 10 ohm resistor.

The servo skull was also originally spotted buzzing around Pipeline 13. It was built around a plastic servo skull and using the same techniques I used with Brother Nikko and Inquisitor Kant. I drilled out the eye and fed the wires of a 3V green 0603 nano SMD chip LED in through the eye hole and out of the bottom of the skull, then gently pushed the LED into the hole with fine tweezers. The wires then formed the “tail” of the servo skull. Then I applied a small blob of Water Splash Effect Gel, available from Green Stuff World, to fill in the hole over the LED. When adding the servo skull to Brother Garrett’s base, I simply wired it in parallel with Brother Garrett’s helmet LED. Both LEDs are controlled by a single switch in the base next to the battery.

The helmet eye lenses and the eye on the servo skull both received a glaze of Citadel Biel-Tan Green. This is to give the eyes some colour when the LED is off, as you can see in the image below (right).

Brother Garrett’s pose made the most sense in his original context when he was ‘mid sneak‘, but hopefully even out of that context he still looks like he is preparing to deliver a stealthy kill. The knife sheath strapped to his shoulder is from the Primaris Intercessors kit. I had to cut off around a quarter of its length to prevent it overhanging the shoulder pad, and it’s still large enough to obscure his vision to the left. Ah well, ‘rule of cool’ always wins!

I don’t really have anything new to say on the paint scheme. I used my standard Flesh Eaters paint recipes detailed here. The only difference was using additional glazes of Nuln Oil and Gryph-Charger Grey applied to the blade of the combat knife to add reflection points to the true metallic metal, as you can see in the image above (left).

That’s all for today, I hope you’ve enjoyed this insight into my latest Flesh Eaters marine. There will be even more Armies on Parade aftermath next week, so stay tuned! As always, thanks very much for reading, and please remember you can also find me sharing my work on Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter/X.