Greetings and welcome to week two of Squaduary 2022. I pledged five Custodes models and got started on them with a gusto during week one. It all starts with the red and gold...
I use an airbrush when painting the gold to get a smooth uniform finish. Then I paint the red on with a brush. These models really just paint themselves. The details are well defined as are the different areas of the model. It's totally paint by numbers here.
The robes and top knots already show good shadows with just a base coat. The bases have all been uniformly primed black using Vallejo Surface Primer Black through a airbrush with a little flow improver added. Next, the armor and robes were shaded, followed by some initial base coats for the weapons.
Some initial pipework on the midsection of the armor was painted in as well. With just a few added details and shading, these Custodes look ready to rumble.
A look at the shading on the demi-robes (or whatever their called). I'm looking forward to the highlighting here as these robes are going to look great with all that surface detail.
Even this humble Custodian Guard is coming along well. The leather vambraces and a a few straps were also base coated and shaded with the armor. Black weapon cases were painted in and the weapon bladed got their initial blue base coat.
The flexible joints of the armor have been painted with Vallejo Dark Rubber and shaded with Nuln oil. The full paint recipe I use is available on the Custodes tab above.
I'm looking forward to painting the Vexilla. The cross bar got a coat of black to match the weapons.
And that's where I got to on week one. Now week two is under way so check back next week for more progress on these great sculpts. So much left to do, but plenty of time and enthusiasm left. I would love to bring these in early and try for a bonus Blade Champion. Time will tell.
Hope your projects are going well. Stay dafe out there.
Cheers and Happy gaming!
These look great! Almost finished in fact! I have terrible trouble with GW metallic paint in an airbrush so generally avoid it, but you seem to have perfected that technique.
ReplyDeleteI have have very little issue with Vallejo metallics using an Iwata Eclipse air brush, but it uses a fairly large needle (0.35mm, I think). I use a very rough 5:1 mix of paint to flow improver to keep thing moving along. I find hand painting the same golds over a black base coat to be quite streaky and therefore very time consuming to get right with all the required thin layers. It's a snap with the air brush.
DeleteSlow down you are making us other Squaduary Squaddies look bad :)
ReplyDeleteNo worries, things should slow as I tuck into the details.
DeleteLooking well, you are flying along. I agree that Custodes paint up quite easily, but those details can be tricky to nail. Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
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