Dark Angels Indomitus Deathwing Master - WIP - Part 2

 

The Dark Angels Indomitus Deathwing Master continues his slow progress towards completeness this week. It is time to look at the little details now.  There are many and each is sort of a mini project in its own right.

I decided this Deathwing Master carries the blood of a predecessor, or perhaps as rumor say, it's some of the Lion's own, passed down through the centuries. 

I decided the skulls on the armor would be made of the same grey material as the Indomitus campaign symbols I've been painting on this force. Here, the intake ports on the backpack are painted a steel color and shaded with GW Nuln Oil as well. I believe some touchup and additional highlighting have gone into the tabard as well.

Then it was time to get the head painted, particularly the mostly covered face. I think I picked out reasonable eyes this time.  Still working to get satisfied with eyes on these models. Also, you can see where I picked out the prayer beads that the vial of sacred blood hangs from.  The alternating beads are easier to count during prayer and the colors tie in with the checkers on the tilting shield. Some cleanup went into the artifacts hanging down the front of the tabard as well.

Then more work into the shield, picking out the little details and cleaning up the shading to draw contrast between bone and non-bone items. The iPhone is washing out some detail here, but it's coming along. I can't decide what to do with the hour glass.  The particularly observant (or kind) may notice my attempt at putting a light gray sand in the glass.  I'm still working on how that would look here in paint - sort of a 3d freehand going on. But that's perhaps making my efforts sound a bit too grand.

Hopefully one more session this week to get this hero done so I can move on to the Judiciar and Chaplain models that complete the force. I'd like to finish before Squaduary 2020 in February, but otherwise I really have no need to rush these well sculpted heroes. I want to look back on this project and feel good about the aunt of work I put into them.

I hope you and yours are well and being safe.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!