Old Blood – Finale

This guy is like an entire series of painting seminars in one model. I painted a Force Weapon design, based on some Grey Knight swords. I painted some NMM, while trying to make the robotic hand look entirely different from the well-used bronze of the rest of his metal. I painted OSL from the strange orb in the middle of his palm. I finally got Mr. Wappels shaded basecoat working out ok on his base. It’s glorious.

Here’s some photos!

I used the same technique on his scales as I did for my Blood Bowl Kroxigor. Mephiston Red, Badab Black, Blood Red edges, then Ushapti Bone (watered) edges, then Sunburst Yellow (watered) edges. In the middle I went over it with Lamenters Yellow to try to make the Ushapti slightly yellow, and the red slightly orange and I think it’s ok. Part of the problem is that the scales should look worn and old, but there is a very fine line between worn, and just crappy looking. Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don’t. 🙂

The yellow was really simple. After I had finished darkening the green, I painted some Sunburst Yellow into the cracks. This was probably the wrong way to go about it – since I stood the dangerous chance of painting straight yellow on my nice dark rocks. But it worked out, and then I watered some Blazing Orange to glaze over, and it worked great!

This was a lot of work. And I almost gave up at one point because it wasn’t working, and then, suddenly out of nowhere, it started to come together. Back and forth. Back and forth. I’m disappointed in how the photo makes the edges look, but with eyes, even from up close it’s pretty nice looking! (Actually, I bet the photo is just shadows on the wrong spot…could probably have solved it by shooting from a slightly different angle).

I’m not certain I got NMM correct, but I did an ok job and it had the effect I wanted in the end.

The OSL is…Warpstone Green, then lighten that with Ushapti Bone. Then water the crap out of my last highlight colour and be very careful not to let the colour pool in any area. I also used the GW Glaze Waywatcher Green, but I’m to impatient for that…I think I’d need 6-7 layers of that stuff to see a difference.

I’ve been sitting on that carnosaur rider model for a few months, and Pete’s been telling me that I should have my Old Blood on a Cold One for years, so here we are. Finally a model worthy of being the Chief Lizard of my guys!