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With the blade complete I wanted to add some colour to it. Steel and silver reflect their environment so it's nice to keep that in mind.
The new Citadel contrast range of paints are a pleasure to work with, and are now my “go to” paints when dealing with any rank and file troops, you simply cannot bear an average of 5-10 minutes per figure and will result in many boxes of minis actually getting painted and making it onto the table in my household.Finally, using Citadel Averland Sunset, paint in a fine central line down the columns and rows that have green squares in. This done, you’ll find the effect suddenly jumps into focus
Drakenhoff all over the floors, making sure it goes into the recesses at the edge and the ones with the screws in them. Here I am playing with a Macro lense and Technical Blood For The Blood God paint. Next step is a varnish and one day the bases. Shade the lighter silver areas by painting Basilicanum Grey directly into the recesses. You might need to clean this up with Vallejo Mecha Color Steel [ Iron Hands Steel] afterwards.Optional) Sponge Chipping: Weather the Traffic Lights by dabbing a torn piece of foam in a dark grey, like Eshin Grey or Skavenblight Dinge, then dabbing this against the model (do this before you paint the lights). Now for the floors. Unfortunately, I didn’t really take many WIPs for these, but to be honest the process is not super complicated. You do: