Brother-Sergeant Victorno

Found my head!

Poking around this model in the background (alongside Horus) and thought I'd show how he's coming along. Officially called Brother-Sergeant Victorno, from the Space Marine Heroes - Series 2 range, I'm really trying to angle the highlighting as though the source of light comes from the thunder hammer as a bit of experimentation.

There's some reflection from the shading stage. It seems I didn't mix the Carroburg Crimson properly before using it, and everything just went glossy. I'll use some Stormshield varnish at a later point to fix that.

Most interesting point that made me decide to post this was the bone coloured skulls, and the scroll banner work. I used a different formula to normal as a bit of experimentation.

• Morghast Bone. This is similar to Zandri Dust, but a little lighter. Ushabti Bone works well as a direct highlight colour, though I didn't use that here.
• Skeleton Horde. Contrast paint, only on the bone icons.
• Seraphim Sepia, only on the scroll banners.
• Seraphim Sepia and Skeleton Horde are very similar colours, mostly differing in paint consistency. This affects how it pools and dries, with the contrast paint normally making for a lighter surface.
• Screaming Skull highlight across everything, but needs to be very thin or it just saturates out the detail.
• Pallid Wych Flesh on the bone icons. I messed up the kneepad a little bit and had to go back and fix that.

So this ends up with the bone colours much closer to white than the banners, and ends up saving about a single step to my normal approach. I need to explore this a bit more before I decide on its usefulness. The contrast paint doesn't give such a harsh shaded definition on the top areas, which I normally have much trouble with, so I'm interested in its glaze-like properties more than anything else.

The wreath on the shield will very likely be the green I enjoy doing for them, as there's already enough silver and gold about, neither of which would really match against the centre bone colour properly.

I'm starting to get a feel of how this model will end up, so I may have to dedicate a little time to finishing it soon.

-- silly painter.