For the painting scheme I have followed the same I used on this Armoured Sentinel, which curiously is a copy of the British WWI tanks. I have essentially used acrylics and enamels from AMMO of Mig Jimenez and my lovely Badger Renegade airbrush. In the following lines you will find how to paint a Leman Russ Mars Alpha pattern from Forge World.

This fella has taken a whole week, including a weekend. I usually need a couple of days to paint a tiny 15mm tank.

Actually, I have to say that the worst part has been the time required to paint this beast. I think that I need more practice, especially with the chipping effects. The surfaces are bigger, right, and although this makes the painting easier at the same time, some effects I have learnt must be adapted to this larger scale. But now I can say that it is done! It has been difficult because I had to move from painting 15mm tanks to paint this huge monster. Although I tried something on a small recce vehicle ( this Sentinel), I still had the goal of painting a big tank.

Lately, I could not help feeling gutted about this, since over the last years I have learnt a lot of different techniques to paint tanks, but I had never applied them in one of my beloved tanks. However, when I was younger I did not spend much time painting these tanks: just with a brush I tried to simulate a simple camo. Especially the Forge World versions, more realistic (less toy-like) and charismatic. I loved them, those enormous and powerful steel monsters. Ten years ago I gathered around twelve Imperial Guard tanks. Today I wanted to share with you a painting guide for a Warhammer 40k tank, a Leman Russ for my Genestealer Cult.

Leman russ mars alpha battle tank