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Amazing

Oh man, some really stunning progress! Abbadon's sword is especially good, those metallics on the blade are to die for and were you going for a marble effect on the pommel? If so it worked very well!

Rotgut wrote:Looks really amazing! I hope you do well in your competition!

iheartlargeblasttemplates wrote:Amazing

Thanks guys

Commander Cain wrote:Oh man, some really stunning progress! Abbadon's sword is especially good, those metallics on the blade are to die for and were you going for a marble effect on the pommel? If so it worked very well!

Thanks man, and no the pommel isn't painted yet actually It's the grey primer and specs of black, but now that you mention it, that could look like marble

Here's a little further progress:

I am delighted to say that the piece took gold in the duel category, and of the 5 entries I placed I took 4 golds and a bronze + overall winner! So I'm pretty happy.

Pics of the finished piece:













And when I got home my FW stuff had landed, meaning a bodyguard for abby

I think congratulations are in order! Very well deserved victories.

Thanks mate Next up will be my converted Falkus Kibre and a squad of Justaerin

yeah,
Congrats on the win! the completed dual looks most epic.


Panic...

Thanks Panic

Been photoshopping some more, so thought I'd share.

Minis by DPA:


Minis By Lorenzen and DPA:

As promised a while back here's a tutorial on how I painted the black on Abaddon.


Note that this is for a simulated high reflective black, and not everyone likes this particular look for black

I used VMA 71.005 intermediate blue, VMA 71.075 sand, VMC 70.950 black and Secret weapon washes W002 heavy body black.

1. Basecoat model VMC black.

2. First highlights are airbrushed on with Intermediate grey, making sure to focus on the area where the light would pool.

3. Next hightlight is 1/5 VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue. Again focus on where the light would pool, and make sure to leave part of the previous highlight.

4. Next highlight is roughly 2/5 VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue. By this stage you'll start to think "what am I doing, this doesn't look black at all..." Which is why step 5 is needed

5.To re-define the black I use the wash from secret weapon which leaves a slightly shiny surface, which is really great, any black wash with some gloss varnish added should suffice though. Now you blend back the highlights to define them and make some contrast.

6. This is the final stage and also the detail stage of the model. Using a brush touch up any areas that needs to be a bit darker with the black wash, also use it to blackline all the rivets and panel lines. Then using a 1/1 mix of VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue highlight all the edges. If you prefer add a further highlight of 2/1 VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue to make the edges of the "light pools" stand out a bit more.
Add all other details like the red, gold and steel detail in this case. (the model isn't complete as I didn't have the time atm.)

Hope this is useful to some of you guys

Congratulations. I'm speechless.

Wow, just found this one and love the in-progress pics versus the finished, seeing it in the raw before everything comes together in the resolved diorama. Awesome!