Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on the Cerastus Knights. And onto some colour. First up the Gamboge art acrylic. This is stippled directly over the sponged Vermillion [sic]. The two shoulder pads are freshly applied, or have had two coats, which is why they're a bit brighter. But you can see how it darkens down a bit. These were panels that I was certain would need yellow...
Here you can see the shoulder pad is much darker, which is either just the first coat or how much it changes as it dries!
All of the amour has had a shade wash which was quite a few nights of work really. It was a hard slog and should not be overlooked for the impact it has on the model, and yet it is easy to overlook because it's not quite as impactful as adding the brighter colours. I also drybrush some more Warplock Bronze in places to tone down the gold. The top of the hip and thigh in particular.
I'm much happier about this now, and the gold being less dominant. I also highlighted some areas with Runelord Brass, both drybrush and sponging. It's definitely created a more ancient and aged patina across the bronze. You can also see I picked out some silver areas too on the pistons.
It could probably do with a bit more differentiation in all the metallics to help define areas but I can add more shading in places and we will have the Blessed Verdigris 🗽which will change things immensely. I'm also going to pick out some of the pipework too so it won't be wholly bronze.
As I write this, further down the line than the pictures I know I debated this scheme constantly. Something about it wasn't right, but I was judging it on elements I hadn't even painted yet. The toes and left knee-pad were going to be yellow and the left half of the carapace. This meant the yellow right shin should have been red.
The cruel irony being that as I look at the pictures now I see that I could have got away with this pattern, if I had have accepted the red toes, knee pad and carapace. Maybe it's something to bank for further down the line? But I had also thought to have the chain fist yellow/black on this [its right] side and black on the inside. I'd already decided to split the right shin, half black on the inner and this would be reflected in the chain fist blade with the red cowl on the heavy bolters.
But I absolutely couldn't get away from the idea that I had chosen to halve the whole scheme - split down the middle. So all of these yellow elements on the right hand side seemed contrary to this idea. But were sentimental hangovers from the original idea of how I was going to paint this.
Ultimately, I did some quick and dirty diagrams on post-it notes of what both Cerastus schemes should be. Finally a plan to follow. But as happy as this made me - with something to work toward it had two downsides...
Number one, some of these panels had to be changed back to red. And number two, I won't get to realise the original vision I had for these knights. Now that's not the end of the world. Because throughout that vision didn't sit right with me. Certainly with something like a knight, where it's heraldry speaks volumes about it's history and how it fits into the rest of the force. There's a huge commitment as it represents so much. But ultimately, maybe these aren't 'decisions' in the normal sense. The Knight is communicating how it wants to be decorated. It's personality is manifesting itself just as its machine spirit might communicate...
But there are still a couple of knights missing from my pantheon. I don't have any Dominus or Destriers, so there could be scope to try to recapture this. Although I'd always imagined the Dominus was going to have a full chevron carapace - the entire top being yellow/black stripes.
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