The chainsword

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Project Entry by skodamarine

The Chevrons

May 3, 2020

Everybody knows that the Dept of Health and Safety is all powerful in 40K, and that they demand warning chevrons are painted on anything dangerous 🙂

I masked off the area to be left black with masking tape [Use decent quality stuff - the cheaper brands either won't stick so paint leaks under it, or will lift off the base paint when being removed].

Make sure to rub the edges of the masking tape to seal it to the surface.

I find GW base yellow works well as a base layer when covering darker colours - so many yellow paints are just too thin. I sponge it on to give a mottled texture

A lighter lemon paint is sponged on....

Then a pale brown very lighly sponged on the top of everything to give an aged look to che chevron painting.

Finally carefully peel off the masking tape - I tend to try to remove this before the paint is fully dry. If the paint had dried out I would probably lighly score the edges with a craft knife to stop the paint tearing off.

Next, I weather down the sword and add colour to details like wires. The chevrons will get a edge highlight in silver to represent scratches, and generally I will add rust and stains to my taste – as 40K isn’t a subtle setting I’ll probably go a bit cartoony with that.

The original plan was to recover the handle grip with a legth of suitable twine, but due to lockdown I can’t as I have nothing suitable already in the house. So when you next see the sword it’s handle will have been stained with a emulsion paint tester pot I found lying around – Emulsion will hopefully soak into the cloth so give a better finish than acrylics, although I wouldn’t recommend that for something that would be handled a lot – as this will just be hung on my wall it should be fine.

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