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Looking nice!

I think its about time I do a bigger update to see if I can get a little more in the way of feed back, So here goes!

When I unpackaged the two lengths of the Bloodthirster's Whip they were perfectly straight, so to make them a little more whip-like I had to put them in boiling water and bend them into the desired shape.




It took a good few attempts to shape them in such a way that they matched one another and that they weren't left touching the floor, but eventually this was the end product.




I then stuck a pin into the end of each strand and stuck the spiky tips on. Then by drilling a hole in the handle of the whip, the pieces can be slotted in and removed easily to help with transport and storage. Now he looks like this.








So, with that now out of the way I went on to finally have a go at painting his skin. on top of the flat coat of Scorched brown I first did was of Baal Red, followed by a dry brush of equal amounts of Scorched brown and Merchrite Red. Next came a dry brush of 1 part Scorched Brown, 1 part Merchrite Red, 1 part Bestial Brown to brighten the overall colour. Now I'm debating either another wash of Baal Red, or maybe a 50-50 mix of Merchrite and Bestial. But I'll see how I feel when I next sit down to paint Here's the pic's.






So... What does Dakka think??

Next I'm deciding on what washes to try, or if it needs lightening any more. Any opinions would be mega helpful, and thanks again to everyone who takes the time to read through

Nice work on that, I see he's been under the sunbed a few times

Go darker in the shadows and lighter highlights. You can always wash over if there's too much contrast. Maybe use the red glaze over the mid tones ?

Good work so far!

Very cool! I really like the colour scheme!

Id go for a dark red/black skin tone rather than dark brown personally, since he looks a little too beastman right now for me. Great job on the brass!

I want to make friends with it!

One thing I noticed in the second-to-last picture (I believe his axe arm) was a mould line... It made me sad.

Wow this looks great

@KaloranSLC - Feth! I spent hours getting rid of them, looks like I missed one :( I'll go back and get it when I next have a chance. Thanks for noticing.

@Trilobite - In the flesh it is alot darker, I'm not sure why it looks as bright in the pictures.

@everyone else - Thanks! I should hopefully have time later this week to get another decent update done, but in the meantime, any more C+C would be ace
Thanks again for all your comments!

Neat looking deamon! One thing I can suggest is that it looks like you are using the flash on your camera. If you turn that off, and then put a lot of light on the model using lamps, you can get a picture that does better justice to the actual colors of the model.

When one whip is not enough, add another one! Great work

Very nice indeed. Like someone said previous, watch out for those mouldlines.. in the colours you've chosen they will show up bad. Other than that well done so far, looks great!

As a fellow owner of this monster I have some tips more red in the skin if you have red wash or ink coat the skin in it don't glop it on mind you paint it on.
I started with red gore and worked my way up to a blood red highlight then washed it with 3 coats of red ink and 2 coats of flesh wash ink if you have those you are lucky. if not use the red wash and ogryn flesh. I won't post picks here but to see them look in my gallery.

@sonofruss- I looked at your pictures the day I bought mine for inspiration It's really impressive, kudos to you.

I have a VERY limited amount of red ink left, how would you suggest its best used. I'd only have enough to do it once so I dont want to waste it. I've been saving the ink but I think this guy is worthy of me using the last of it

Looks good

are you going to paint the veins?

http://www.gladiator.clara.net/coatd.htm

There are no guarantees but this is the company that made the ink washes and you might try reaper p3 or Valejo sp?
They can be watered down but I don't recommend it.

He is shaping up very nicely. Someone in my Local GW also painted up 1 of these. yours looks great

This is coming on really well.

Its been an age since I've updated and I'm going to be in a field far away from my computer next week so I'll let you lot see how things are coming along.

After lots of different thoughts and attempts I have finally finished the colours for his skin from the waist up the skin is done so I'll post the pic's and explain how I did it




After the steps I'd done from the end of my last post I started trying to make the veins stand out a little more but using red wash on either side of them




I then washed over the whole area to remove some of the really obvious contrast that looked stupid, to make it look a little more natural.




I then went to town with a mixture of red gore drybrushing and baal red wash to make him more Khorne-y coloured , and painted a thin coat of 50:50 blood red/bestial brown over the veins again.




To finish (after lots of looking at the pic's on Forge World to find out why it didn't quite look right) I washer the recesses to make it more shadowy with badab black and devlan mud. the colours in the picture are a little off in the picture compared to IRL but you get the right idea.

With that i decided to move on and have a play around with the wings. Sprayed them up Chaos black and after many many dry brushes of different shades of grey they looked like this..



I just noticed the was was clearly still wet when I took the picture the wet brown area will be gradually faded from the skin colour to the black/grey of rest of the wings.




Just to finish off, I painted some of the detail on his face, I still have no clue what colour to paint his eyes. at first I thought red, but I dont want it to blend into the rest of the model. Black is too dark. So any suggestions would be awesome



Thanks for viewing guys Let me know what you all think

Orange/yellow.

Looks absolutely stunning It's really good to see someone do justice to such a great model

With the eyes, have you considered doing them in a milky white colour? I reckon that would look suitably disturbing.

Green is opposite red on the colour wheel so that would give you the nicest contrast, just look at BA eye light thingies. Likewise, the green salamanders get red eyes, partly probably for the nice colour contrast.

EDIT NO2: Heh the skin seems to be getting less brown and more Khornate I see! Nice work.

KaloranSLC wrote:Orange/yellow.

That. It's the only colour that fit in, green eyes would just look stupid on him tbh, even though they contrast the best.

I agree with squilverine milky white eyes would be sweet on that model!

Yeah, milky white eyes would look cool and disturbing. But don't add any pupils. It'll give it a crazy and messed up killer look.

Dude that looks awesome!!

Just go to town on the face now.

Amazing im going to subscribe...I think yellow and orange would work for the eyes.

Hey guy's and gal's, sorry its been so long since my last update, I was on "holiday" for a week and for some unknown reason ended up buying Island of Blood last weekend so I havent really had time to update! Here is what I've managed to get done though.....




After finishing off the skin I went around and tidied up the little messes I'd made on the armour and other details and then went to town working on them, the straps are scorched brown with a badab black wash, the buckle's and other metal details are boltgun metal, with a devlan mun and badab black wash, highlighted with mithril silver, then devlan mudded again.
The bone knee pad was painted with a base of dheneb stone, given various washes of devlan mud and drybrushed with bleached bone.


Then I started trying different things with the eyes, After 3 (or 4 I cant remember) different attempts at the milky white colour that many of you suggested I just couldn't get it looking sensible, whatever I tried left the deamon looking goofy so I went on to my second favourite suggestion of orange/yellow. this was alot easier to get looking good (although you cant really tell in the pic :p ....I REALLY need to find a decent macro camera to take a pic when this guy is fully finished for you guys). Although you cant really see in the picture, the eyes are orange around the edges, blended into yellow in the centre, just take my word for it



After getting bored of spending 2 hours on his face, I started work on the axe. Its nowhere near done but I thought I would let you see how things were coming along 6" away up at the end of his arm



That's all for the time being. Hopefully, by the next time I post, the Wings will be ready to pin onto this guy so you can see him in his full glory

As always, comments are greatly appreciated

That's looking super cool.

Love the model, and I love what you're doing with it. Great job.