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This poor little guy suffered a lot of neglect - I started working on him ages ago and progress has been in only fits and starts. It's my first effort at large areas of white, and my technique is definately a work in progress. Anyway, on to the pics, and C&C is welcome as always. Thanks for looking!


Grotesque mold line across the front of his axe cannon - I'm going to have to do something about that.


Posture-corrected!

The targeted shading definitely worked out well for you. Much better variation in the color now.

Overall a very solid tabletop piece.

For future pieces, I'd say just work on the graduation of color some more. Something I use to help smooth out my gradients is glazing of the colors over one another. It just depends on the look I'm going for on whether or not I use the highlight or shade color for the glaze.

Looking forward to seeing some more ^_^.

Thanks again grey_death. Glazing is something that I usually do, but I was daunted by the prospect of glazing white. In the past, I've always used the shade colour, but I'll experiment with using the highlight on the next set of MoWs I do.

So when am I going to get the chance to lose to you (and others) in the next painting competition?

DFo wrote:Thanks again grey_death. Glazing is something that I usually do, but I was daunted by the prospect of glazing white. In the past, I've always used the shade colour, but I'll experiment with using the highlight on the next set of MoWs I do.

So when am I going to get the chance to lose to you (and others) in the next painting competition?

All in good time ^_^. The theme is set. Now you just have to wait and see what it will be! Not much longer though....

You can always glaze the edges and use a wet brush to feather up into the main areas

Nice protectorate eeerrr Kador model. Nice to see a Kovnik painted in something besides red.

Hmm, now that you mention it he does kind of smack of the Menoth... perhaps I'll try for a bluer white on my Demo Corps. (Or maybe the fact I would have played Protectorate were it not over-represented in my area is shining through subconciously...)

As for him not being red, you can blame Chappy P for that one!

@Ifurita - Feathering glaze sounds intriguing. I foresee a lot of experimentation in my future.

Thanks for the comments, all.