I both love and loathe adding decals. Although I am a fan of freehand work, such as my attempts are, decals add so much extra detail.
I love how much character they add and it can be so cool when you make these decisions based on the random collection of transfers you've been hoarding for years. It's like finally finding a purpose for that piece of wood that's been in the garage for a decade [or two].
Creating character out of nothing but a disparate collection is awesome. But, it takes so long to do. The decals are so fiddly and can often roll up on themselves.
Decaling took me 3 nights! That's longer than highlighting the red took! But I did get to add some of my Mighty Brush Gothic Script transfers too.
I did not have enough of these large white cog decals. They were supposed to be on back of the shoulder panels.
So, I had to come up with an alternative and did a cog pattern, similar to my 'recent' Armiger. Actually a really cool outcome, although very fiddly cutting up some of the cogs to fit.
I had asked Liam if he had some spare, but I must have already tapped him for them. He did however have a couple of Dominus decal sheets that came with yellow cogs!
So I did the same sort of thing on the tempest blade armour. And with some space at the top of the shoulder armour I had room to put some of my home made Dark Angel's decal to use. Handy, because it does say 'By cry of Raven we are drawn'. 😎
And the Acheron too. I got to use the biggest full Raven heraldry badge on the tilting shield.
Even though that's from the Questoris kit, I felt it should have one. And some random kill badges it hasn't earned yet. Whereas, I left the Castigator's shield blank at the top to add purity seals when it makes a kill.
I really wanted to add some red hazard decals on the promethium tanks.
I was utterly convinced it needed them, but I was just running out of patience at this stage and I hadn't gloss varnished them - so it's a risk getting a decal halo
The Questoris should cog strip managed to fit on the Acheron shoulder.
And more of my Dark Angel transfer was cut up. But the film behaves more like cling film than acetate. So this was a miracle to achieve this and took so many goes and re-floating in water to lay out the film before trying again.
I considered a black cog on the chevron shin but went just with the makers mark.
And 'hid' the forgeworld origin in his chestplate chevron.
As I was short another white cog I used one of the winged cog Dominus honour decals that Liam provided. I thought this would be cool. While the right shoulder was provided for, but I added the red eye and scuzzied up the white so it didn't look like a decal.
The knee pad got the heraldry treatment I've used on the Armigers and Adeptus Titanicus. A Legio Gryphonicus badge, Titan Legion symbol, chevron with a Greek symbol for some unknown arcane reason, plus the Dark Angels chapter badge - to show it's affiliations. Throw in the litanies on the back of the banner so any foot troops can be suitably inspired following in its wake.
And this, is the discarded transfer paper!
