OLD THREAD.. JUST POSTING FOR YOU ALL TO SEE! So after the completion of my dwarves I have decided to paint up a couple of minis for pure fun, I got a few to do and decided to do something different. So as my first
40k mini in a long while here is Drazhar, Master of Blades.
img233.imageshack.us/img233/1774/drazharwip10xl.jpg Now first things first, I went for a purple tone. A dark purple tone; chaos black and liche purple layered with more liche purple added in and highlighted by adding commando khaki. Looks pretty good in person but unfortunately does not photograph well at all, these are the best I could get - you can see it is purple but looks like there are no highlights or anything. There are, honest!! I will try to get better pictures next time.
I am going to do the mini with a sort of limited palette, first time for this but it may work (hopefully). The face mask will be commando khaki and bleached bone but will have a purple glaze/wash to tie it into the purple look. The blades I am tempted to try
NMM but am not wholy confident on my blending abilities.
Now the base is another new thing for me, I am trying to get hold of some water effect materials (surprisingly hard to find in the
UK/Europe) and make the barrel look as though it is sunk but leaked a liquid into a swampy looking thing. Hopefully, never tried this so it could all go tits up.
Anyway, comments and such welcome. Sorry about the pictures again.
KU
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Anyway, a bit of work and two films later here is the new look Drazhar;
img300.imageshack.us/img300/3808/drazharwip33ct.jpg Well actually two versions of him. Both have been edited the same way but one has the white balance on the camera higher (I think that was the one above, but I forget). Anyway, this time you will notice he does indeed have purple armour!! I have included both pictures as one shows the highlights more, the mini itself if more an inbetween look but it very close to these pictures.
img295.imageshack.us/img295/8577/drazharwip44jb.jpg What have I done? I edged the armoured plates a bit then I washed them all with a glaze of liche purple, chaos black and a touch of purple ink. I think I gave it three glazes and it seems to have brought the purple out well. The mask and skulls on the handles were done from a base coat of commando khaki and a touch of purple ink (made an interesting lillac shade
), commando khaki was used as the highlight before final ones of skull white mixed in were done. The eyes are golden yellow, sunburst yellow and then some skull white added.
KU
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Well next pictures, same thing again two different settings - two pictures.
img102.imageshack.us/img102/7241/drazharwip54jj.jpg img102.imageshack.us/img102/6492/drazharwip69on.jpg Yes, that is my attempt at
NMM. And well.. it failed. Looks very grey. But as this is my first attempt ever I am not too bothered, just means I will have to keep trying and improve upon it. A few things about this, the base coats were bluey hued probably not the best of starts. Then I believe I added too much white for the highlights and too much grey for the others, that and my blending was not up to scratch.
Why have I left it, you say? Well because its all about trial and error. Sure I could strip the blades and spikes and try again, and again, and again, and again... but ultimately this is my first try and well I can use it as a guide as where I went wrong or did good for following attempts. That and they grey weapons work, this is the fourty first millennium, who says the weapons must be silver?
The base will be tackled next, green barrel with some warning text, sractches and maybe a slight bit of rust on the torn edges. What you think?
KU
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img57.imageshack.us/img57/79/drazhar2os.jpg Done! Ok so the base doesn't show that well, unfortunately but Honestly it is water stuffed. Mixed in chaos black, dark angels green, brown ink and bronzed flesh then added Vallejo's Still Water. I possibly could have done better with it being less paint as it is hard to tell that it's water effect - something for next time perhaps.
Anyway... enjoy.
KU
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