Imperial Knight - Armiger Helverins TO DONE! #Dreadtober part 9

Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity it's the 'ninth' of #Dreadtober and I'm continuing my #Imperial Knights Armiger Helverins. OK, I hold my hands up, it's a big jump from my last post, sorry.

Once I started with the battle damage there just didn't seem much point in intermediate shots, they looked almost complete.

 

I did promise myself I might cover in detail some of the process in the TO DONE! post, but I'm not sure what to add really, but I think it was about my yellow so perhaps it was this:

I noticed that my Instar Vintage IV-16 - Iyanden Darksun equivalent appeared much lighter than my VGC Sun Yellow.

From where I had the yellow previously I would blend in some IV-16, but then when I added the Sun Yellow it would actually make the IV-16 darker.

Well, darker is misleading, the Sun Yellow would act almost like a glaze.

 

So it took the blend and left the lightest part and just made it such a vibrant bright yellow, rather than the sandy yellow IV-16 is.

 

When I'd originally put the IV-16 on I was quite dismayed about the all the tones in the shaded Gamboge that was disappearing.

But the Sun Yellow gave me a completely different colour that was more in keeping with the rest of my Knights.

I am considering that will be the bulk of the Adeptus Mechanicus terrain I will do, no IV-16 but some Sun Yellow in places for edge highlights - the best of both worlds.

 

This chevron Knight has been an Armiger pilot so long that his red Raven armour has almost been completely replaced with yellow and black.

 

He really stands out among all my knights because I used so much of the pattern.

It's jarring in a way, but I don't regret it.

I wanted to experiment and I still have a sadness about not doing House Hawkshroud. 

I love their special rule and would rather have had the half-damage because I think that makes a Knight army much more usable.

I know Raven has excellent rules, possibly better, but personally that durability is something I really envy.

Oops, close-up shows up that trapped hair on the lense. I might have to find a way to remove or cover it. 

The bases are also something I'm not wholly happy with.

On their own they're not bad at all.

The resin one is really great, but the gravel is a slightly different scale to my others.

The scratchbuilt one is also much better than I hoped but I didn't think it through and try to match my existing Warglaives.

They used a similar mix of sand, but also some bits of rubble and debris, which I didn't use on either of the Helverin bases. So, despite managing to keep the reds consistent across all four we have two matching bases and two random ones that don't. We have three red Armigers and a random yellow one. 

I'm over the moon with them, but I would mark myself down just for the lack of consistency as a group. Again, nothing I really care about, just a critical observation.

This is the first thing I've completed for my Hobby Season, so I get my first Great Big BLESSED VERDIGRIS Stamp of Approval! I got my Serotonin high but I also felt quite drained by the process. I had hoped this would kickstart my hobby mojo but I think I may need to take it a little more slowly. I hasten to add I've had some migraines recently [minor ones, but uncomfortable nonetheless] so I could probably do with getting my head right without feeling pressure to paint. So, I feel especially proud of both the models and the stamp because I did it despite how I was feeling. Anyway, more white pics to follow...

Imperial Knight - Armiger Helverins Blessed Verdigris #Dreadtober part 8

Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity it's the 'eighth' of #Dreadtober and I'm continuing my #Imperial Knights Armiger Helverins. It's Blessed Verdigris time - thinned Army Painter Hydra Turquoise gives me the darker verdigris I so crave.  

Of course I could have done more highlights to the brassy bronze but I made my decision and I'm sticking to it.

Torsos also got weathered.

The legs took a bit longer - I managed one set and the two carapaces in one sitting.

  

  

I pushed on a bit the following day and was able to do the second pair of legs

 

 

And we hit the wall again. The shoulder pieces were weathered and varnished and then I decided to see what they were like in their holes - which happily stripped all the paint off the edges. For flips sake!

I'm pretty certain it won't make any difference, you won't see them below the edges but it feels utterly crushing for it to just slew off like the paint was never even attached. Nevermind, I'll keep on regardless. Fingers crossed the rest of the model is less vulnerable, but I won't hold my breath.

Imperial Knight - Armiger Helverins shading #Dreadtober part 7

Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity it's the 'seventh' of #Dreadtober and I'm continuing my #Imperial Knights Armiger Helverins. I'd been avoiding the marble tiles, I'm not sure why, my marbling skills had been pretty successful so far. But I girded my loins and gave it a go.

 

Some smooth Bonewhite lines, like organic lightning.

I tried to fade things a bit so it similar to what I'd done before. Naturally, I didn't refer too closely to those previous examples, even though I was attempting to recreate them.

I added some shading in and managed to achieve what I feel is the worst marble out of the three I've attempted so far - yay me!

I'm not entirely sure what the problem is but it just doesn't sit right with me. Maybe the pattern is too big, or the contrast is too high but it's not what I expected. Fudge it, I can live with this sort of underachievement.

Meanwhile, I'm adding sepia shading all over the metallics and debating whether I'll sponge any additional Runelord Brass onto it...

And I don't think I will. Having compared it to my previous Armigers, which were almost pure Warplock Bronze on the legs, making the legs any lighter just feels unnecessary.

 

Carapaces also got shaded and also the reds got highlighted.

And we're done. Well, not done, there's still loads more to do. But the majority of the highlights are there, so it's Blessed Verdigris next and then highlighting the yellow.

So, a mixed bag of progress, success and some minor disappointment but getting there.