Trench Crusade Court, Part 2: Drybrushing and starting metals!

Okay, continuing!. (Also, here's a picture of the primed flail. I put a jawbone at the end of one of the chains.) 

Decided to do my initial drybrush in AP's Banshee Brown, believe it or not. No, you don't see it *super* well, but the idea here was to have a reddish-brown undercoat for the rust, of which there is going to be quite a bit of. 

I then followed it up with an AP Grey Castle, picking out some details here and there, and particularly hit some things like the skulls and such with it. I also did a few things in AP's Abyssal Blue(which will be verdigris-laden bronze.) Each model has something that will be bronze-the Hell Knights with bronze chain cloaks, the Yoke Fiends each have a little something, like a trinket, or some bit of armor. 

I went heavier on the Grey Castle brush with the fiends' skin, which will be a very sickly pale, mottled color(at least, I hope) at the end. 

Next, I started do do a rust undercoat for certain things. The chains and barbed wire are going to get a rust undercoat(AP's Dark Rust), and drybrushed metal over it, but the rest will be painted first and then I will begin the rust applications with Dirty Down, Grim Rust and everything else. 

For the base metals, as much as I love my beloved John Blanche Heavy Metal, my bottle is starting to get somewhat light, and I need to order some singles soon. They don't sell them in local stores around me yet. I want to also use this on the Praetor and the Saint, so to ensure I keep enough on hand, I used this as the base for the Yoke Fiends, which have less metal. For the Hell Knights, I opted for the excellent and aptly named Scale 75 Black Metal. I don't use a lot of S75, and I've seen some of their colors not do too hot, but I love this one and it goes on smooth and easy. It's also incredibly close in color. 

If you're a Citadel person, btw, the best suggest I have for you is 1:1 Leadbelcher(the Citadel Gun Metal equivalent) and Abaddon Black, and Leadbelcher straight instead of Gun Metal. (As for the other colors, I think Doombull Brown 1:1 with Rhinox Hide, Mechanicus Standard Grey and Thousand Suns Blue are close. All that said, I do not think I am someone you want to be taking paint advice from; I'm just listing color equivalents. There's a slew of way better painters than me online that give way better advice.) 

Anyway, here's the crew with some basic metal stuff done! (it's a bit messy, but I'll be painting over any of that, so I wasn't trying to be particularly neat here.)

And that's it for tonight! Tomorrow I am going to start the highlights and the weapons-Gun Metal for a lot of them, but I'll go over some other color picks. Note that starting then, I'm going to not be doing them as much in batches, due to the extra details I'm going to be doing. I want to give the three Hell Knights different levels of verdigris on the cloaks, for example, and they're going to have heavier rust in different places, and so on. But for the priming, drybrushing and base metals, it seemed good to do them together. 

Til next time!