While I've still been a bit slow-going with things, the Sin Eater is complete, and the Praetor is almost there! Here are some completed Sin Eater pics in all his glory, complete with portable snack attached to his back.
This guy was a whole lot of fun to do. I think the sculpt is just really cool overall; it's big, there's lots of room to play with rust, weathering and verdigris effects, and there's room for a little bit of kitbashing customization-I didn't even go overboard with this guy given he's cool and unique enough as it is, but I added chains to his lower cape to break it up a bit, and some chains on the shoulders, a wrist and a leg. As usual, used acrylics(mixed brands again, Army Painter, Scale75, Citadel, etc), speedpaints, Villainy Ink enamels, some ABT oils, Dirty Down effects, and some pigments. Gore was done via the glue method, but I'm hoping my local store gets the Dirty Down Gore back in so I can finally grab some-they sell out of it very quickly.
After the Praetor is done, the Desecrated Saint is the last member of the warband! That one's gonna be interesting to do, I will be doing some planning out on that fellow.
After that, I'm debating between the Heretic Warband, the Night Lords kitbashes, the Mordheim Undead army, or just alternate between them, which the latter I might do.
One thing I think I want to do is pick two of the Heretic troopers(the basic, 25mm units) and do grimdark variants of them with less of the usual trappings. I think I want to try them without kitbashing either; one I'll use the usual mixed media, just minus kitbashes(oils, enamels and such all game), but the other, I might stick to only acrylics/acrylic effects(so any acrylic blood, rust, Typhus Corrosion pre-weathering and the like are all fair game.)
Mostly this is to show folks that you can still get the dark and dystopian atmosphere(especially with a nicely atmospheric base combined) that the grimdark style lends itself to, but if you're in a situation where it's tough to utilizes solvents/etc that get used often with some of the other stuff, or don't have a lot of time to kitbash models together, it's *still* possible to do so. I think folks get hung up that the style is all about 'gluing lots of extra parts onto a model' and it's not; it's about atmosphere. The kitbashing aspect is big since it lets us do a lot of cool things to help sell that atmosphere for sure, and also to get creative, but I think it'd be cool to show that you can still get models looking like that style with simple acrylics and washes(and you can use a reductive technique with these, too!)
Anyway, Darkthrone has a new album out, Pre-Historic Metal! I'll be giving it a listen here and see how it is while grinding out new stuff in the recent FFXIV patch.
'Til next time!
