And with a playlist heavily fortified by 1349(I am totally not getting an idea for a Black Grail army with this):
Rust. Lots of rust. I did some highlighting with a mix of Heavy Metal and Gun Metal, and then went in with some straight Gun Metal at parts. The horns are done with Dusty Skull.
And then, started the rust. I actually had to come back to this after getting a proper mask. Using small amounts quickly is one thing, having to hold the mini up to your face and work with it for minutes at a time is another story entirely, even without an airbrush. Better safe than sorry.
I cleaned up the blobs that were left behind after my first foray. Also messed with Grim Rust for some lighter parts. Mummified Grime Speedpaint came in handy for the deepest recesses, to show the really old, nastiest rust.
I want to take some time, now, to sort of explain the 'story' I see for these guys. I'm a TTRPGer at heart, and this carries over into other wargames. Rather than just "Hell Knights", I like to think like, what happened to these guys? Hell Knights, in the lore....well, I'll let the Trench Crusade Official site describe them:
"The silent battalions of Hell, summoned when the Court of the Seven-Headed Serpent seeks sport, are composed of Hell Knights. Their ever-burning banners stream as they march to war, carrying out the bidding of their masters. They are the bannerets of the high lords of the Court, and champions who respond to foolish mortals daring to challenge the hunting parties of the Serpent’s nobility.
Heretic Priests whisper that these Infernal warriors were once lesser fallen angels or mighty mortal champions raised into devilhood, only to be cursed by their liege lords for some slight, real or imagined. Cast out from the burning palaces of the Pit, the alabaster architecture of their bodies has been twisted, folded upon itself a thousand times, entombed within their once-splendid armour which is now an eternal prison.
To glimpse the body inside is to gaze upon the sheer horror of divine flesh warped beyond reason. Glaring eyes of light, mouths uttering blasphemies, and pulsating inner organs that gibber and shriek, all crushed into a space barely a tenth of their original form. Despite their reduction in stature, their inordinate pride remains unbroken, and they brook no insolence from the wretched mortals that serve them.
Once privy to the secrets of Creation, their minds are now clotted with endless blood-red waking dreams. Their thoughts are crushed to a singular, jagged prism of murderous obsession. Their form is tormented by the cold of the earthly realm, which they are forced to endure just as humans suffer in the flames of Hell. They are mighty still, yet mere shadows of their once exalted glory. Even so, they are terrifying and implacable foes to a mortal soldier."
So these lads are essentially single-minded killing machines, encased in armor that's probably bleeding(yes, that'll be coming eventually, along with some eye glow.) Their armor and weapons are going to be messed up because they're, again, single-minded murder machines permanently encased in their armor. This is not armor that is taken off and cared for. It's going to have trench battlefield mud, grime, and rust all over it. Despite being single-minded murderers, though, I like the idea of some of them keeping some semblance of their former lives as a slight subconscious thing here and there, in this case in the form of some grisly trophies(hence a few skulls hanging here and there, and the one that's probably getting pieces of a priest frock), or nastier weapon additions, like the rusty hook. I kind of want to let some of the design choices tell that story.
Knowing all of this now, we'll get back to the model! I was a bit tired today after a bit of extra exercise and a rough night of sleep, so I just did a couple other things. Started on the fur-this is going to be done in a dirty ochre color(Tainted Garden so far, with a bit of Dusty Skull on the skull), and just washed with Grimdark Shadow. I'll be adding some drybrushing and stuff with it tomorrow, though it's going to be pretty dirty looking. Drybrushed a bit of the metal chain.
Also started a verdigris recipe. Testing it on one lower part of the cloak, it's a drop of Verdigris, a drop of Temple Gate Teal, about 3 drops of stabilizer, and brushed it on. after it dried, drybrushed some Evil Chrome over it(which is really more of a bronze color, though I might fiddle with the color some.) Verdigris is still wet here, you can see. (Also messing with Grimdark Shadow on it, too, for a sort of unifying look, though I might work with the Mummified Grime here too.)
Tomorrow, going to start manipulating some of the rust to lighten it here and there, and adding metal scratches around where there'd be battle damage, as well as work on both cloaks and the skull more! And hopefully start to add blood, of course. (I'm trying not to take forever on these models, since they're an army; I have no need to rush and I won't, but I'd like to see if I can not take my usual eleventy billion hours to finish.)
'Til next time!
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