Session 9 - Finishing Off - Very Newhammer and Bit of Oldhammer
Ok so I am calling this challenge done. An interesting little challenge and shows how much I rely on a number of standard technical paints (such as Citadel Shades) and colours (such as different metallics). I probably would have gone for Warplock Bronze base with Hashut Copper highlights and weathering with Nihilakh Oxide if I was painting this model with a free paint selection. Perhaps a more traditional looking Necron.
I think I was right to paint the miniature on the sprue but perhaps should have done more of the detailing such as stripes before putting the miniature together. But I quite like working out the design as I go along and sometimes this works and sometimes not. But I still think he will come in handy for Stargrave etc.
So overall he took a bit over 4 hours to paint. I am genuinely surprised how long this one miniature took to paint. I don't normally think about the time I am spending on each figure and I suspect that I would get quicker if I was painting more than one of them. I certainly had to spend a bit of time working how to put him together without a picture of the finished model. In contrast, I was getting through the halflings very quickly by the end.
For the base I finished it of with the red mixed with increasing amounts of the grey. I added a few small gold nuggets and it was then finished off with some yellow/orange grated sponge witch is the most alien looking of my available flock stock.
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| The Necron or is it a ABC warrior vs. some Desert Waste landers |
Picked this up from the Cinema when we went to see the excellent new Dune movie. Always on the look out wargames stuff!
Definitely a fan of the new Dune movie and hoping they get to make the second half.
A very small space marine against my Necron. My whole painted Wh40K collection!
NB- The Space marine wasn't painted by me but bought off eBay on a whim and in the end I so liked the paint job. I didn't send him to the paint stripper!
Rob
Quite an interesting challenge to follow! I would not have thought, that anyone could have pulled of such a convincing colour scheme with the colours you rolled up.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I think it is fair to say I wouldn't have picked any of those colours if I was choosing them normally.
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