This guy turned out pretty damn good…except for the flames.
The skin was similar to Lady Justice, with the Dheneb Stone layers, but I used the Vallejo Game Ink Skin Wash instead of the SW Flesh Wash. It’s a lot less yellow and a lot darker, so it needed re-highlighting after with more Dheneb+Ushapti, but I’m getting a lot happier with it. At one point I had to decide whether to leave it super dirty, or bring it up a bit, and I decided to bring it up and I wasn’t disappointed.
The cloak is a few layers of Sepia and Waywatcher Green. I’m finding the Blue or Amethyst to strong against the red, but the Green is a really great shading colour for it.
The flames are where it started to fall apart. I made the foolish mistake of highlighting my ethereal green flames, instead of lowlighting as you should for internally lit sources. I had to go back in with a strong yellow in the cracks to pull the lighting back down, but unfortunately I didn’t do “lots of thin layers”, so I filled some of the detail here. Then, yellow->green wasn’t great looking, so I used the Waywatcher again to green up my yellow…then I had to highshade (not a real word) with the Elysian Green, which is not a good colour for me to have continued with. It was ok for the base layer, but I needed something more poppy to go back up with. Something that I don’t have in my paint box and couldn’t figure out how to mix. The last layer here was some really light bits of Guilliman Blue glaze at the top – because “flames” get darker at the top. But they usually also get warmer (ie, red is “warmer” than yellow), but it’s a green flame so…do I add brown or red to make it warmer? Blue? I don’t even know anymore…
The worst part is that I had the same flame problem on the Death Marshals as well, so we’ll see how they turn out. They’re lower on my Guild priority list, as I already have 2 painted for my Tara crew. But 5 Death Marshals sounds amazing…or terrible. Very swingy. Possibly an NPE. I’m going to try it. 🙂
