Imperial Fist

Say hello to my little friend.

Another test model, mostly as an excuse to try out some colours with the airbrush. In this case, the following:

• Averland Sunset (air)
• Flash Gitz Yellow (air)
• Angron Red (Forgeworld Clear)
• Phalanx Yellow (Forgeworld)

It's a shame that Forgeworld have stopped their airbrush range. I was just getting into it, and the quality of them is far superior to the GW range. Especially the clear paints - they are just brilliant! But, have to make do with the GW range now I guess.
A few problems in working with yellow here - mainly the speckling from an airbrush is very apparent. This could perhaps be covered with a bit more clever airbrushing in future - namely use the base colour over the shade and highlight colours to help blend it all together. So long as the base colour is kept thin, this should work. Picking a proper base colour is key, so if I were to do the same I might do something like:

• Averland Sunset
• Red (of some kind) for shading
• Phalanx Yellow for highlights
• Flash Gitz Yellow all over to blend everything together.

Moving on, some paintbrush application of Casandora Yellow (shade) to give better definition to a few areas, a tiny bit of Fuegan Orange (shade) where I wanted that definition even darker, and a sparing edge highlight with Dorn Yellow, and the armour is done.
It's probably worth noting that I messed up on the angle of shading on the shoulder pads. I'm leaving this as it is, as a reminder to do better in future. Proper planning should have solved this, but obviously I didn't think through the final pose.

Not much more to say on the marine. The eye lenses are Mephiston Red, Evil Sunz Scarlet, Carroburg Crimson, Nuln Oil, and a dot of White Scar.

The base is entirely freehand. Just playing with shades of blue and purple. Seemed to fit the feel of Imperial Fists, and was a great excuse to play with more marbling effects.

Also, this model was done very quickly compared to most. Yay.

-- silly painter.

Lieutenant Tolmeron

Or, as I prefer to call him, Lt. Toblerone.

Run closer, I want to hit them with my sword!

So this guy has been done relatively quickly, at least for me. The reason is actually quite simple: this was the first model to really build on all the notes used previously on how to paint each component. In essence, the first production model!

After much thinking, the sword was done by drybrushing instead of adding a pigment colour to one of the metallics. The deciding factor was wanting it to look similar to the Sanguinary Guard.

The helmet was coloured gold for veteran status, and done the same as the Sanguinary Guard. The sword hilt was:

• Screaming Bell
• Reikland Fleshshade (Gloss)
• Hashut Copper
• Fulgurite Copper (edge highlight)

I wanted more of a reddish colour for the hilt - almost red gold, and distinct from the helmet.
The rest of the gold was more like that done on the recent Chaplain, with a wash of Druchii Violet to make things a little bit darker.

The armour itself was done with an airbrush, and tidied up afterwards. It's certainly faster for basic highlighting, but less controlled than a paintbrush. It should work fine for Primaris marines, at least until I'm better with the airbrush and can move back down to smaller models.

-- silly painter.