Imperial Knight - Armigers in manufactorum pt.5 - BLESSED VERDIGRIS 🗽

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Armigers and it's time for the BLESSED VERDIGRIS 🗽 Despite the polarised feelings of progress and stagnation getting the patina on has made a huge difference.

But not just that I did highlights in places too. Some of the weapons were a bit behind on the metallics but this surge in development was helping keep the project going. 

Not without some trials though, I had applied washes to the Gamboge and in some places it seeped under the paint, puckered it like fingers left in the bath too long and the paint started to slew off. But I fixed it all and the yellow is really starting to stand out on this one.

Meanwhile, my 'Headhunter', House Raven's designated executioner was not quite what I was hoping for. I split the groin armour white [cream] and black so I could have alternating black and white cog symbols either side. I thought it would match up with the studs too.

But despite the idea of having it predominantly black and red, with more white elements than yellow - to represent this Armiger's sombre task, I just wasn't feeling it.

I split the Melta Lance shield plate to add some heraldic campaign badges on it in the decal phase. I wanted Dark Angels, Legio Gryphonicus and Adeptus Titanicus badges because the decals are really cool. However, I must admit some of the verdigris on the head cowls/collars are a bit ungainly. Not what I had intended, but I can live with it.

So progress was good, but I was still beset by doubts, they were just different ones now.

Imperial Knight - Armigers in manufactorum pt.4 - METALLICA!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Armigers. With the Deathwing finished I got to focus solely mostly on the Armigers. I wanted this one to have limited yellow and black on it.

Almost just the twin ribbons hanging from the back. I did my usual weathered brassy/bronze. It looks rough as can be but with the weathering it'll work out in the end.

The armour plates are painted separately on the sprue, it was easier at this stage, although I hadn't done the metallics just yet. Although you can see the bonding studs, which were to be white.

The second Armiger was to have the traditional yellow and black chevrons. I didn't have one that had just the two furthest outer fairings of the carapace. So it seemed to make sense to take the opportunity.

I'm not 100% convinced of the structural integrity of the pose. Despite pinning it still feels somewhat wobbly and fragile. Time will tell if it stays in one piece. It doesn't help that the base feels reasonably heavy for something bulked out with cork...

Its armour plates. The yellow is just stippled on Colvin & CO Gamboge art acrylic. Kicking myself I didn't buy more of these now Home Bargains only stocks a few primary colours rather than these more leftfield colours.

With the Gamboge in place it pencilled in the chevrons, using a wooden coffee stirrer to help get a uniform thickness.

And then it's just filled in with black. For the first time I was contemplating the additional white edges here [as part of the House Raven scheme]. It would help tidy up the edges and cover the pencil marks.

But I wasn't going to give in just yet. Things were progressing really quickly, but there were still some unresolved issues in my head. However I was itching to get decals on, even at this stage where I hadn't done half the highlights and shadows. So, although the dopamine was kicking in for the rapid progress there was a shadow of negative doubt building that it wasn't quick enough, which was attempting to squash my feeling of achievement. Could I power through...?

Dark Angels - Lava swords, molten metal blades etc.

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I finished #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing, but just wanted to show some unseen WiPs of the lava blades. I started with Valejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Red.

Then I stippled on some dark orange in places, then some Troll Slayer Orange.

It was the same for the unnecessary Bolter Bayonet. 

I mean this was just super easy with very little thought to it.

So much so that when I added VGC Orange Fire it felt like it was painting itself

From here I just wanted to add some yellow.

And with VGC Sun Yellow stippled at the ends they were done. 

Now a light drybrush of black in some places, perhaps the odd black dot in others would help on a bigger blade. But the Lightning Claws were already quite small, so I didn't want to confuse things.

Not sure I got the effect in the right places here but even so I was super chuffed with the results. Enough to recommend giving it a go.

I know I was tentative, despite trying this effect a few times already. If you have doubts, don't. Just give it a go, you'll be surprised how easy it is.

Imperial Knight - Armigers in manufactorum pt.3 - BIG BUILD BASE TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Armigers. I've got on with the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 in my usual fashion.

Army Painter Rough Iron was used everywhere else for the metallic basecoat.

Some of the debris on the base needs to be picked out later on in the process, but for now the base is complete.

The 'running' Armiger was progressed at the same stage. I started the modelling process January 22nd, but these pics were from February 19th.

At the time I was still painting the Deathwing, but this was hobby butterfly mode. I was lured away to the Armigers but I was managing both projects sufficiently well enough I was not totally seduced by the new project.

It also meant that when the Deathwing came to an end these were even more progressed that I could just jump into them with abandon and keep that hobby momentum going.

Bloody Great Big Bloody BASE Stamp of Bloody Approval 

Dark Angels - Deathwing Strikemaster #SwordsAsWalkingSticks - TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing Strikemaster. Now I don't know if this exists anymore but either way - SURPRISE! Yes this model has been kept secret all along [well I mentioned it a little bit in my Hobby Season review] because, well I'm doing the classic Dark Angel pose of 'swords as walking sticks'. 

A pose I've openly been aghast/against/agape[?] since I realised it had become nearly as cliche as 'tactical rocks'. Sure the original fantasy art trope looks cool, but power swords? C'mon, you'd be hilt deep with it turned on!

So I've been fixing things as Carl Fredriksen did in UP! by putting little tennis balls on the end of Citadel's myriad models for years. So many to do I actually didn't have time to keep up!

 

But with my own version I had to 'try' and sculpt the squished tennis ball. Which is far from perfect. I bet there's an ideal 3D model I could have used but this was the best I could do.

It's a bit too deflated but I'm doing a joke Warhammer 40k miniature - perfection is not part of the requirements.

This was so long ago that I made it I actually get a Great Big Big Build BLESSED VERDIGRIS Stamp of Approval!

Then I went on to prime and paint the base, with the rest of the Terminators last February.

Which gets me a Great Big Big Build BASE RUSTY Stamp of Approval. 

So, the third season I got into painting all the basecoats and metallics.

Highlights on the bone white.

Blessed Verdigris. At this stage I am still debating, alongside the other power weapons, how I was going to paint the Power Sword.

The conclusion I came to was to try to replicate the Swarmlord Bonesabres and sword from my Undwerworld's Steelheart's Champions, but in read rather than turquoise.

And here we ended up...

Now I have to admit, although I thought I did a fair decent attempt to replicate what I'd done previously.

I was not impressed with the end result on the sword.

So much so that it prompted me to do the remaining weapons in the molten metal effect, which I was super happy with.

I don't know what it is about the red that doesn't work for me but it just doesn't.

On top of that the plan was to perfect this so I could replicate it for the Lion's sword. But I'm now thinking I'll be better off with molten metal. I'm more confident with it, enjoy the process more and the results are better. Lorewise I'm not so sure, but it's a small price to pay to be happy with the finished article.

Anyway a Bloody Great Big Bloody Stamp of Bloody Approval!