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Finally done with my Adepta Sororitas Battle Sanctum. It wasn't really my intention, but I think I ended up spending more time on this than I have on any other model. The only possible contender would be my Thunderhawk, but that had less detail and a lot of large, flat areas that were fairly quick to do.

I wanted my statue to be metal rather than stone, so I used green stuff to fill all her cracks and then went for a brass look. It was simple to do but I think it turned out looking really well.

The sanctum itself is supposed to go with my Order of the Sacred Rose army. My original intention was for the whole thing to be white, but the more I looked at the model the more obvious it was that a significant portion is clearly made of metal rather than stone, so white didn't seem to make sense. I ended up using a very dark metalic colour to represent the black portion of the Sacred Rose scheme. This turned out to be a nightmare to paint, since the model has so much texture that it was really hard to get sharp transitions between white and black on all the fiddly little parts like the raised sides of the window frames. I made certain metal portions slightly more silver, bronze or brass depending on what they represented. The plastic model has insane amounts of detail for a terrain piece so I ended up spending hours doing different colours for thing like wires and buttons on control panels and servo skull controllers and gauges and random plaques...

I know that I am still nowhere as good a painter as some of the people who post amazing stuff on this site, but I think I have definitely improved since I started a couple of years ago and I am really happy with how this whole project turned out.

That is amazing.