I decided after a long period of time to finally start painting the few space marines I had. I bought the Blood Angels codex when it was released and along with it two boxes of death company. Not sure which chapter or successor chapter I was going to paint I decided not to paint the death company yet.
While on a mad dash to dig out my old 3rd edition Howling Banshees for a different project, I stumbled upon this old Space Marine captain.
I also recently decided to venture away from the Games Workshop paint line, which I hadn't done in 15 years. A friend of mine suggested Vallejo and I thought I'd give them a try. I started this guy with a gray primer, followed by a thinned coat of gory red. This was then followed by a wash of badab black. I wanted dark shadows because I had recently seen a video on airbrushing Angels Encarmine marines on YouTube and loved the zenithal (don't know if that's spelled right) affect the airbrush had. Now I didn't have the money for an airbrush and if I did, my wife wouldn't likely let me get one (recently I purchase a very inexpensive Badger airbrush bud had horrible luck as I've got no depth perception). Anyway, I thought I give zenithal lighting a try.
I actually used a dry brush to dry brush bloody red on top of the now dry washed base coat. It took quite a while but I like the results. It may not be perfect but I learned a bit from it. After the red was done, I used chaos black for the base of the black areas, then bolt gun metal for the metallic bits. I dry brushed the black bits with a gray that I now forget the name of, but was made by Vallejo. The skin is Pale Elf Flesh by Vallejo with several washes of ogryn flesh, and his 5 o'clock shadow is a wash of badab black.
I decided to go with the older style power swords from 3rd and 4th edition and kept it metal. I based it bolt gun metal, followed by a badab black wash, then a highlight of the base color, chain mail and finally mithril silver toward the end of the sword to have a nice gradient.
Overall, I like the model, though I'd like to get different grass for the base and possibly add some weathering. I think I learned a lot by painting this guy, and I think next time I may not dry brush him and give a layering approach a go.
What are your thoughts? How have you done zenithal lighting?
While on a mad dash to dig out my old 3rd edition Howling Banshees for a different project, I stumbled upon this old Space Marine captain.
I also recently decided to venture away from the Games Workshop paint line, which I hadn't done in 15 years. A friend of mine suggested Vallejo and I thought I'd give them a try. I started this guy with a gray primer, followed by a thinned coat of gory red. This was then followed by a wash of badab black. I wanted dark shadows because I had recently seen a video on airbrushing Angels Encarmine marines on YouTube and loved the zenithal (don't know if that's spelled right) affect the airbrush had. Now I didn't have the money for an airbrush and if I did, my wife wouldn't likely let me get one (recently I purchase a very inexpensive Badger airbrush bud had horrible luck as I've got no depth perception). Anyway, I thought I give zenithal lighting a try.
I actually used a dry brush to dry brush bloody red on top of the now dry washed base coat. It took quite a while but I like the results. It may not be perfect but I learned a bit from it. After the red was done, I used chaos black for the base of the black areas, then bolt gun metal for the metallic bits. I dry brushed the black bits with a gray that I now forget the name of, but was made by Vallejo. The skin is Pale Elf Flesh by Vallejo with several washes of ogryn flesh, and his 5 o'clock shadow is a wash of badab black.
I decided to go with the older style power swords from 3rd and 4th edition and kept it metal. I based it bolt gun metal, followed by a badab black wash, then a highlight of the base color, chain mail and finally mithril silver toward the end of the sword to have a nice gradient.
Overall, I like the model, though I'd like to get different grass for the base and possibly add some weathering. I think I learned a lot by painting this guy, and I think next time I may not dry brush him and give a layering approach a go.
What are your thoughts? How have you done zenithal lighting?
He looks great!
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