As many of you already know, I have a three C'tan Shard Necron themed army. My three C'tans are based on the Deceiver, Nighbringer and Void Dragon, which I converted up a while back. The army has been evolving, and I now have Orikan as my HQ choice, he has the nice combo with Worldscape for turn one, but lets face it, he is in the army to give me another mini C'tan when he is empowered!
So what model to use for an empowered Orikan? Step in Ben from Master Crafted Miniatures with his amazing Star God sculpt. Ben is a freelance miniature sculptor and Master Crafted Miniatures serves as an outlet for whatever sculpting he has time to do outside of professional contracts. He is also able to do private commissions, such as custom shoulder pads, but back to the Star God Sculpt...
As I am painting my mini to replace Orkin when he changes, I want to have a feel that he is being empowered. I plan on painting him blue, with a few morphing metal sections. I want the blue to be bright in the middle and gradually go darker on the outer parts. Now I don't own an air brush, so I used a piece of card with a small hole in it and my cans of Army Painter primers to give me the transition I need for the pre-shading...
Now to work on the blue!