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I finally managed to finish this guy. I spent the better part of one and a half months just painting him. Won't be able to go near gold paint for some time I think.

So here he is, Shield Captain Aurelian, member of the moritoi since he was grievously wounded at the second battle for the imperial palace:
(I'm really proud of this guy so prepare for a lot of pics)















Let me know what you think

Awesome work! Looks great!!

Very cool and great job.

You should be proud! The blend on the shield is particularly nice.

Beautiful job - care to share how you did the gold?

 Gordy2000 wrote:
Beautiful job - care to share how you did the gold?

Sure,

- I primed with chaos black (you can use the retributor armor spray, but I like to layer the retributor armor by hand)
- apply 2-3 thin layers of retributor armor
- wash with reikland fleshshade 2 times
- layer the parts you want brighter with auric armor gold (2 thin layers)
- sparingly highlight bigger surfaces with liberator gold where you want really bright spots
- edge highlight with liberator gold
- edge highlight with a 50:50 mix of liberator gold and stormhost silver, but don't cover everything you edge highlighted before with liberator gold, just the "highest parts" that will be brightest
- very sparingly edge highlight with stormhost silver

now here comes the time intensive part:
- create a glaze with reikland fleshshade and create blends where you want gradients from gold to reddish brown shadow. Make sure you end the brushstroke where the shadow is supposed to be darkest because that is where the most paint will be deposited. Apply 5-10 layers of glaze depending on how dark you want your result to be and make sure you let every layer dry before applying the next one.
- creare a glaze with nuln oil and do the same thing to the very deepest parts where the darkest shadows would be

I used the same glazing process for the shield and blade, just with different shades of blue and red respectively.

Edit: in the first step I meant to write: prime with chaos black, not abaddon black...got that mixed up

Awesome! Thanks very much!

So I sat down again and changed the Sword on my Galatus dread a bit.
I thought the highlight I did was fine, but I wanted it a bit more drastic.

So it went from this:


To this:


I think both look fine, but the new one looks slightly better. What do you guys think.

Looks awesome great work!