Work continues, albeit slowly, on these models.
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I still say they look cool without the shoulder pads. |
The biggest challenge has been hand painting the Chapter Icon onto their shoulder pad. My first attempts had dreadful results. Ultimately I decided the best step at artistic redemption would be to resort to the utilization of stencils. It's easy enough to find blank stencil material, I found this brand at Walmart but it's available at most places that have a craft department.
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Blank stencil film. |
With that material in hand I referred to my
Original sketches and began freehand sketching the icon I wanted in my sketchbook. I did this with a Micron and sketched until I created the image I was pleased with and at the right proportion.
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Sketch madness. |
After that I stenciled over the areas I had already attempted to paint free-hand. After touching them up I was fairly satisfied with the results.
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My first stencil results |
Each one is unique, though they are quite similar. I like to think that maybe each marine, as a form of devotion, hand painted their icon onto their armor. Or maybe we can say that they have had to touch up their armor after being on a lengthy campaign?
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With Teeth. |
I am mostly happy with these results. Adding the lion teeth to the icon really brought the whole thing together and I was glad to have decided not to go the mono-color route.
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Assigning of the paldrons. |
Next I applied the 'up arrow' Tactical symbol to their shoulder pads. I then painted over these using Folk Art English Mustard. The white was just way too intense and the one piece of art I could find showed that their squad badges conformed to the color of their chapter symbol on the opposite shoulder paildron.
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The final assembly begins... |
Some of these guys are all but done, and I look forward to showing you the completed Celestial Lion Kill Team soon!