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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Tzeentch Warband - Part III

Straightforwardly, let's continue this project with Part 2 of the painting guide.
If you have missed Part 1, click here.

8. Details - More highlights

In this step I highlighted the metal parts, the brown leather parts and the scrolls.

For the brown highlights I mixed the basecolour with Medium Grey to lighten the colours up for an edge highlight.

The scrolls were edge highlighted with pure Medium Grey. I also used several layers of heavily watered down Medium Grey, which I painted in strokes to create an aged look.

8. Highlight the black parts

I used Black to cover the tubes, claws, fingernails, candels, etc. and highlighted all the black parts.

9. Freehands

This was a fun step and went, surprisingly, way better than expected ;-)

I mixed Black Grey with Drakenhof Nightshade (50/50) to get a nice flowing consistency and express myself in some daemonic runes.

10. Flames and gemstones

I painted the gemstones in the GWs style.

For the flames I thought I could create a, let's call it, reverse shade. This was basicly the lighter blue, heavily diluted with water, which should brighten the recess areas. This worked somehow, but afterwards I had to clean this up a bit. I also painted the birds eyes at this step.

10. Colour for the bases

As seen on K'zias base before, I finished this session with a layer of Flat Earth on the bases. I've choosen this colour to have a complementary colour to the blues. At this point I could regret to make the basing before, but I think there are some good reasons (ie strenght, thoughness) to create them in the beginning.

Somehow I really want to try a OSL (first try) for the flame. So watch me messing this all up in the next part :-P . Part 3 of this 'tutorial' will follow in a few days.

Continue with Part 3 of this painting guide.

As always, thank you very much for your visit, feel welcome to comment and stay tuned!

Monday, March 25, 2019

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Tzeentch Warband - Part II

During the last days I've created two new servants of Tzeentch for the warband.

Rhavon
A Cawdor Ganger with a Nighthaunt Chainrasp head was the foundation for this model. I added the scroll from the Kairic Acolytes Kit. The backpack is a Necron Praetorian hand with added green stuff tubes. His mace is also taken from a Chainrasp model.

For the Bases I decided to do something similar as I did on my TechPriest.
First I cutted a plastic sprue to random tiny pieces and glued them on the bases to represtent stones or debris. I also added some skulls to each base to represent... ok, it's 40K that should be reason enough ;P . After that I painted the whole base with a texture paint from Vallejo and let it dry. Then I took some long static grass fibres and glued them onto the surface with the texture paint and let it dry again.

For the next layer I mixed fine sand, static grass with cork 'stones', flock from a model tree, PVA glue and water.

I placed it on the desired spots and let it dry again, before I added watered down PVA glue again.

Afterwards I primed the models with Chaos Black.

K'zia
For a female member I choose a Daemonette. I think the bird-like legs are well fitting for a tzeentchian character. Also, I wanted to use the left-over candlestick from the Chainrasp (will count as a flamethrower, or so) and continued to use a Chainrasp arm on the other hand. I placed some smaller bits like the symbols on her front.

Then I took green stuff and started to (or tried to) create a hooded cult robe and cover her left side.

I also covered her tiny Daemonette butt.

And sculpted a hood, which worked pretty well

Then I added a few more details, repeated the basing process and primed her.

It fells like I made some satisfying progress and I really like the characters I've created so far.
On the other hand I have some creative struggle with my Changewalkers, but that's another story for another time.

But for now we're not finished yet ;-)

I also started to paint the minis and the desired colour scheme was heavily influenced by the following artwork.

As well as the amazing Sorcerer of my anytime muse, the amazing one and only KrautScientist!

I wanted a bit more desaturated, grim dark look with a pop out colour for the blue magical effects.
I try to make my first painting tutorial, or at least document the steps and the used colours.

Without further ado, let's do this!

1. Apply all basecolours

Luftwaffe Uniform (cloth / hoods)

Black Grey (cloth / cloak / robes, bird)

Black (cables / shoes / claws)

Gunmetal (metal)

Leadbelcher (metal details)

Balthazar Gold (brass parts)

Rakarth Flesh (flesh)

Chocolate Brown (fur / straps)

Leather Brown (holsters / belts / straps)

Dark Blue (flames / gemstones)

Medium Grey (scrolls / skulls)

The bird got an additional drybrush with Luftwaffe Uniform and London Grey.

I also painted a small line with green ochre on the hoods.

2. Darken it down with different shades

I used Agrax Earthshade for the entire model, except:

Reikland Fleshshade for the skin areas with a second partial layer with Drakenhof Nightshade

(ie mouth, eyes, daemonic patrs, etc).

The flames and the bird were washed completly with Drakenhof Nightshade.

C.Crimson was only used for the runes on the scroll.

3. Highlight the skin

Rakarth Flesh was used for the first layer, Pallid Wych Flesh for highlights.

I used a 3:1 mix of Lahmian Medium and Rakarth Flesh, to create smoother transitions.

4. Highlight the cloths

The base-colours were mixed with grey to lighten them up.

At this point I painted a thin line with grey on the cloak.

5. Drybrush the Psykers fur

6. Details - Eyes and Teeth

The teeth and eyes were painted with Bonewhite.

The eyes got a neat White highlight and then I accidantly shaded them with Agrax Earthshade instead of Seraphone Sepia. Anyway, I applied the Sepia shade on top, which creates the desired yellowish look. A Bonewhite dot finished this step.