Forge World MK III IRON ARMOUR Marines

To All,

Before I evaluate and revamp my list, I want to get back to the part of the hobby that I truly enjoy - painting. I'm pretty sure I am going to keep the 25 marines in my list - 2 units of ten marines and 1 unit of five - so I'm going to spent the next week or so painting up the fifteen Forge World marines I bought to replace the Marines in my army that come from the Assault on Black Reach set.   (in reality I'm going to replace all 25 because I went with extreme highlighting on my first army and I'm going to do some blending on my next list. My goal is to get all the figures and models on my list to the quality of my Dreadnought.)

In a previous post I put up pictures of the soaking and washing of  the figures. Here's what I did a few weeks ago:
                                                               

Unpack and Flash

 

Soak

Scrub

Dry 

Last night I used Army Painter primer to prime the five Mark III armor marines. Because I'm going for a darker base I first primed them black:

and followed with a light coat of Blue:

 

Here are the primers I used:

I'm looking forward to getting some paint on them. I'll keep you posted.
The Stout Smurf