Praetor Complete! One more to go for the Court

Since I was working on both at once, I had finished the Praetor, as well! This lad was a bit intimidating at first, but as I went along, got easier. Just as the rest, mixed brands of acrylics, ABT 502 oils, Villainy Ink enamels and spirits, as well as the usual Dirty Down effects. Did minimal kitbashing on this guy-added the heavy metal hair that I like to do for the uncanny look, plus a scraggly beard since Praetors are what happens when a devil mates with a hyena or jackal apparently. The model had taken some battle damage in the same incident that cost the Pit Locust one of his wings, so I had removed the rest of the sword and whipped up a scourge. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out!

The base was kind of inspired by the Paris Catacombs. 

Included are a couple of shots with a black background as well! (I will be getting an even better setup for pictures in the near future.) 

I definitely enjoyed this in the end and got to experiment with more colors-I really like Umbral Nightshade, and look forward to using it for some Undead stuff, too. 

Also recently got a box of Possessed and Chaos Chosen to kitbash into the Night Lords to make a sort of 'Corrupted Night Lords Kill Team', which will be very very black metal inspired as well. Some of those helmetless dudes are *definitely* getting corpsepainted. (No idea of what order I'm doing these in.) Also-also, I ordered up some Ionic paints to try them out; I heard they are quite saturated, and the Rotting Yellow and Rotting Flesh colors seemed to be up my alley(as did Frost Blue and Phthalo Blue, both of which I can utilize in ice stuffs.) Also grabbing some more ABT oils-I can certainly use Reddish Brown and Phthalo Green. They aren't due in until June, though. I kinda want to test out Bear Cavalry and P3, too. (I've also somehow fallen into Paint Experimenting mode, since I seem to be getting certain favorite colors of each brand now. It was only a matter of time. 

Anyway, I'll be back around with more stuff when I think of it or I get this Desecrated Saint done! (It's all primed and about to be drybrushed. Basecoats on the main body to start tomorrow, but he's got the big body rack that's getting done separately. Yeah, that bastard is a 2-parter.)

'Til next time! 

Sin Eater Complete!

 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!