40k Space Wolves & Daemons Boot Sale Bargain - Help Lawnor identify and fix please (Spring Cleaning)
Soul Grinder - Beginning with the Warp Sword, Flesh, Horns, Eyes and Black Panels
The model was zenithally primed and then everything except the blade was masked off using silly putty and a plastic bag
The blade was then airbrushed with Turbo Dork Blue Raspberry colour shift paint. I tried applying this over the preshade as some of their colourshifts react differently with black or white undercoats. Blue Raspberry does not show up over white so I re-based it with black gloss before applying a few thin coats. I tried to apply more coats towards the end of the blade to give it a gradient. I may have done too many coats over it all though.
After leaving it overnight to dry (and so I could sleep and go to work), the blade was carefully masked off with Silly Putty. Please note the stylish, high end Airbrushing Hood. Nothing but the finest for me!
The Soul Grinder was then airbrushed and washed the same as the Bloodthirster, except I skipped the Gory Red paint as I never liked that colour for this work.
I didn't have enough time to do any more to the Soul Grinder, but had too much time to call it a night so I also based and washed the flesh on my Daemon prince at the same time.
I've got the flesh as far as finishing with the Nipple Pink Shade following the same scheme as below. He looks good in my hand, but somehow rather rubbish in the photo. I hate when that happens.
I've now taken the flesh tones to the same stage I left the Bloodthirster. I think in many ways I've done a better job, but the highest highlights are looking near white, and the boundaries between layers show up well under camera and up close. I think I am going to mix up a glaze from P3 Red Ink and apply a few layers over everything except the recesses to try to unify all the layers. Lets see if I regret it.
It has now had a few glazes of P3 Red Ink. I also cleaned up some of the recesses with a little GW Carroburg Crimson. I then mat varnished it because without a base I am going to be handling this all the time which will wear off paint. The varnish should also help bring the colours together a little.
The horns and eyes were painted the same as before. Pretty much everything else needs a black undercoat now.
After spending what felt like years undercoating everything black, the black panels were base coated with Revell Aqua Colour Tar Black. I tried to follow the same scheme as with the Bloodthirsters black arounr, but the transitions seemed too extreme on the flat angular panels. I based with Tar Black, then added a little Gunship Grey to the Tar Black to highlight where needed. I then edge highlighted with Gunship Grey. Finally I lightly washed with GW Nuln Oil.
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