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Hordes – Titan Gladiator Final

Posted on November 20, 2015

After my last section, I did the red glaze on the skin, but I wasn’t super happy with it so I ended up going back in with really thin layers of the lighter and darker grey, as well as with the amethyst combination in the under areas.

I did the green glaze over all the gold and I really liked it, but went a little far. As well, with all of the other glazes the gold had lost it’s shine, so I went back along 30% of the edges with the Dwarf Bronze, and then 5% of the edges with Mithril Silver to give some variation. This gold is most of the model, so it was important to change it up a little.

The back banner was fun and a little frustrating. I used a couple layers of the Bloodletter glaze which was still super orange. I did a layer of the SW Red Black, and decided to get some more red in it and did some really light layers of Mephiston Red which made it a lot redder. Then I took the Amethyst mix and weathered the banner a bunch. I got impatient in a few spots, and the glaze had dried along the edges and was still wet in the middle and it left a big ring. So I had to go back with the Mephiston and start again.

Lastly I took a number of really light layers of Vallejo Amarillo Lunar Moon Yellow and lightly painted in the yellow star, to help keep the banner visible even under the layers.

Here’s the metal one!

And here’s the new plastic one! Much easier to paint because it’s so light!

And here they are together!

Work-in-progress

Hordes – Titan Gladiator

Posted on July 21, 2015

I thought this was a neat mid-step and I haven’t posted such a thing in a long time, so here we are. 🙂

After the base coat, I’ve only added 2 layers.

Seraphim Sepia all over the gold sections, takes that really pale watered down gold and gives it a much stronger contrast and a better colour.

And a combination of SW Amethyst, Golden Matte Medium and water into the recesses of the skin. After that dried, I took a similar combination but with SW Heavy Body Black and went deep into the recesses and the under areas. You can see on the arm on the left the contrast this makes, but a more comprehensive photo shows that it’s on the under areas as well, giving that more realistic shading.

Next I’m going to use green glaze on the gold, and red glaze on the skin to give both a more varied colour. For these, I apply the colour in a random pattern, to be just a little bit of weathering.

(I left his buddy after the sepia and amethyst step – from there it gets to detail oriented to be doing two models at once anymore.)

Work-in-progress

Hordes – Titan Basecoats

Posted on July 17, 2015

I’m really liking painting these models. Good details, but not a lot of it, so the colour schemes are simple and effective. Here’s a basecoat on the two Titan Gladiators.

One of these gladiators is all metal and the other is a Privateer Press plastic/resin combo and is much much lighter. The metal one is difficult to manipulate without dropping!

Codex Grey skin watered down so it runs into the crevasses, Dwarf Bronze metal, Ushapito Bone nails and tusks, Tallarn Sand ropes and 2 layers of Bloodletter glaze on the cloth and banner.

Work-in-progress

Hordes – Skorne Stuff

Posted on July 14, 2015

My gaming group has been picking up on Warmachine/Hordes recently, with the lull in Warhammer, so I pulled out my ancient models and had a couple games. I had fun playing people I hadn’t played in a while (because I haven’t been playing Warhammer much), so I decided to put some paint on them.

I also bought a few new models to get to a decent 35pt list. The Titan Gladiator and Agonizer on the right are new.