Back to 40K! It's time for the final HQ mini from the Dark Vengeance Box - the Chaos Lord. What I love about this mini: the details! What I hate about this mini: the details -_- Let's get to the pics...
I chose to do metallic colors first because I can be messy and have more control over the rest of the armour and details later. I wanted to make the gold fairly different on him since he's a Chaos mini. This was done by highlighting the gold up to a metal color and then washing on green, purple and some browns.
Now for the brown which knocks the green and purple back a bit and keeps it pretty grim and dirty.
The cat hair is optional, but I wouldn't mess with our feline overlords creative input :P Some vidigras was the last step for the gold - only in a few key places.
Finally, I moved on to the metal areas since they were kind of messy too. Pretty standard metallics with a few thinned black washes, but I did add a bit of purple in a wash to the blade which ties it in with the golds. Plus I had to make the plasma muzzle look a bit heat distressed, cause I love that look.
That's it! Simple, but effective. Feels good to be working on power armour! I also bought and prepped the minis for the avatars of my fellow producers at the creativity factory where I work...
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That's a side project that may get some coverage later on since I found that non 40K can be a fun way to super charge your hobby mojo and learn new things.
Next post: Display pics of the freebooter mini and then
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