METALS! I decided to
go for True Metallic Metals for this miniature for no reason other
than I wanted to play around more with the Scale 75 metals. This is
the last of the set of photos taken with my older camera so hopefully
see better quality next week!
I decided to play
around with mixing colours in with some of the metallics to create
some interesting metals. You can see below that the large exhaust
type contraption was actually base coated with a mix of S75 Thrash
Metal and VMA Armour Brown to give this warm coppery colour. I also
used this on the metal pipes and areas surrounding the exhaust. The
piping up the back and around the head was basecoated with S75 Black
Metal. I used to mix black with a metal like the old GW boltgun metal
but I love this paint. For the fuel tank I again went for thrash
metal but this time mixed in some VGC Scrofulous Brown (I was really
just grabbing at paints near to me and seeing what worked!)
I continued by
working in other colours. I started to use some Heavy metal to
introduce lights onto areas, can particularly see this on the wheel
of the fuel tank as well as the raised areas on the exhaust. I also
used the same colour on the pipes round the head as well as using
Speed metal for even lighter areas. I also started to work in glazes,
particularly on the exhaust. I used a lot of VMC Smoke again, as I
did with the leather for it's wonderful ageing look. In the shadows
of nearly every metal surface I glazed it in. I also used some of the
GW washes watered down, I used small amounts of Druchii Violet,
Drakenhof Nightshade and Seraphim Sepia on the exhaust to help
suggest heat damage on the pipework, especially at the welding
points.
Here on a front shot
you can see that I have done the buckles as well, this model has a
lot of buckles! I also started painting up the dolls on the front of
the coat, the dolls dress was done with Scrofulous Brown mostly with
Smoke and some other washes to dirty it up a lot. The monkey was done
with VMC Field Blue mixed with a little GW regal blue.
The buttons on the
coat were done with S75 Viking Gold and Elven Gold again with washes
on top to dirty it up a little. I also used the same metals that I
used for the buckles to do the gun.
Back in with Speed
metal to add some really sharp lights in various places, on buckles
as well. For some reason I decided not to touch the weapon
(scythe...thing?) at all at this point. It simply felt right to leave
it and do it separately. That will likely be next week along with the
face mask. Then we'll have to start thinking about a base!
