Blood Angel Intercessor

Here's looking at you.

Not much of a painting update, but rather proof that I can complete a single Blood Angel in four days. This is incredibly fast for myself, and hopefully I can continue on this to clear off some of my pending models.

The relative fast speed is a combination of experience in knowing what colours to use, how they combine, nice brushes, and a wet palette. Not having to spend a long time considering which colours, in what order, really made all the difference though.

I originally airbrushed the model, but that didn't turn out properly. Poor mixing of the paint I suspect, but regardless I had to fix up everything with tried & true paintbrush. This is where the wet palette came in handy - the paints were ready at my disposal, easily thinned, and easily used to correct mistakes. Not having to constantly switch paint bottles saved a lot of time, particularly with the reds.

I did end up using Corax Black for all the of the initial black areas, highlighting with Eshin Grey and Dawnstone, and later going back over it with thinned down with the more traditional black. This works quite well to get the highlighting right, so I'll be following this pattern going forwards.

The eye lenses were also a simple Wraithbone and Waywatcher Green glaze, but despite the menacing look of a Blood Angel clearly starting to fall under the influence of the Rage, I'll switch back to my normal method in future. More tricky, but a better result.

Forwards! To find my head!

Couldn't help myself, and when the opportunity arose to get the Space Marine Heroes 2 set, I did. Also really wanted to play with one while motivation is high. This is imply an initial airbrush highlight, and I'll be going back over the armour to really make it "pop" later on. Of far more immediate interest is the Barak-Nar Burgundy being used on the baltea. I strongly suspect this will soon become a default for baltea, once I've figured out beyond the base colour.

-- silly painter.