Draconis does…… Droids! Back to Star Wars Legion again.

19th March 2024

I started with a light prime as I didn’t have any black ☹

The first thing that I did was lay down some contrast red on his face. There is sculpted detail of his face markings, but tbh my eyes aren’t good enough to pick it all out. So I went with the contrast, followed by a slightly thinned Nuln oil that I tried to apply to where I could see the recesses.

To get some head way I did the usual colour on the base, then painted all of his robes in black. I used a slightly thinned Black legion for this. At first I had it a little too thin, but then corrected. This was followed by a drybrush of a dark grey followed by a more gentle drybrush of a lighter grey and a thinned highlight on some of the more prominent robe edges.

Next I laid down some red on the lightsabre, and then went back to Maul’s face and head. I looked up various sources online to get better images of the layout of his facial markings, and used that alongside the directed shading earlier to fill out his face in more detail.

I used black legion to paint in the black following my sourced images as much as possible. Then I picked out the eyes, teeth and horns, followed by highlighting the red parts. The black areas of the ears and jawline were highlighted later with grey.

With the daunting face finished I then thought I would try some basic object source lighting from the lightsabre.

Applied some thin layers of contrast onto his back, followed by some thin highlights of Mephiston red.

I also decide to apply a little bit to the areas I thought would be more reflective (that I planned to gloss varnish) – the edge of his outstretched gloved hand, part of the belt area and the side of his left boot. Some were more subtle than others.

The final stage was to highlight the sabre blades and add a white line down them. Tidied up a few other bits, and he was done.