Monday 19 March 2018

Morathi and progress

Here's a look at my finished Morathio High Oracle of Khaine:






She was done mainly by airbrushing. Her skin is Vallejo Model Air Skin Tone over Vallejo Game Air Barbarian flesh, washed with Reikland Fleshshade, then a thinned burst of VMA Skin tone followed by a thinned (and targtted) wash of Druchii violet.
Her golden pieces are are Vallejo Metalics Copper and Gold. Based with Copper, highlighted with a 50:50 mix, then a final edge highlight (with airbrush) of Gold. These paints are an absolute dream. Stop using GW metalics and get these.
Her boots and gloves are a mix of Vallejo model wash grey, nuln oil, abaddon black and incubi darkness. Her hair is the same mix but with more green (so that when she becomes the Shadow Queen the hair and snakes resemble one another).
The fabric is Screamer Pink on the outside and Khorne Red on the inside. Both washed with Nuln Oil, Druchii Violet and highlighted with the original colour and edhge highlighted with Wazzdaka red and Slannesh Grey respectively. The Slaanesh grey was the tough bit. It needed significant clean-up and a targetted wash. I learned my lesson here - use a bigger brush!

Her hair and cloth were the only bits not airbrushed and honestly I regret not doing them in the airbrush but I messed up the order in which I needed to paint. I started with metalics and then the skin. But I should Have started with hair and cloth.

Friday 2 March 2018

Update

Here's a few updated images of the colour scheme on the first Witch Aelf and on a second one too. Apologies for the phone photos :/

I'm generally happy with the scheme. If it looks ok on these two it should look better on other models. These ladies have been test models for a number of colour schemes over the last 2 years and have stood up to a lot of paint stripping. There are some flash issues here and there that I'll fix with the next few models!


Thursday 1 March 2018

I'm back

I'm back from a long break with a test colour scheme for my Witch Aelves!

For the next few months this will focus on my adventures building and painting my Daughters of Khaine.

This is just phase one. More to come this weekend with Morathi and another box of Witch Aelfs!
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And here is my test colour scheme for my Witch Aelves. It's using a bronze and purple on pale skin combination. It's still early day and she probably needs some cleaning up here and there. 
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The whole mini was zenithal highlighted and then the skin was airbrushed with Vallejo Game Air Barbarian Flesh, then highlighted with Vallejo Model Air Skin tone. A 1:1 druchii violet and medium mix was then washed into the recesses, followed by a 1:1 caroburg crimson and medium wash into the eyes and mouth. Finally the skin was dry brushed with pallid wych flesh and a second glaze/shade of the eye sockets and then the skin is done.

I'll be finishing off the face with a white dot in teh eye and a pink dot on the tongue, just to let them pop.

The boots are abaddon black, highlighted with skavenblight dinge and then drybrushed with dawnstone. A final tidy-up was done with Vallejo grey wash.

The armour and fabric was done following WHTV's sister of silence bronze and purple method but the metalics are Vallejo metal colors (copper and steel). I've only base coated the steel and the bronze needs cleaning up and a couple of highlights.

The hair has me completely stumped though. I'm not sure why but the a nihilahk oxide wash appeals to me but I'm not sure.