Nekima - Part IV

Magical night-light sword.

A good deal of progress on Nekima, in fact the body is done and all that remains is the base.

Diving right in, the left shoulder armour and right vambrace was painted mostly in traditional gold:

• Balthasar Gold.
• Reikland Fleshshade.
• Gehenna's Gold as a first stage highlight.
• Auric Armour Gold as edge highlight.

the top of the armour looks more like some kind of fur, and I figured it was to padding under the metal. So this was painted differently:

• Wraithbone.
• Gore-Grunta Fur (Contrast).

Small detail, nice and simple, didn't need any further work.

The sword hilt metallics:

• Balthasar Gold.
• Reikland Fleshshade.
• Runelord Brass as a first stage highlight.
• Skullcrusher Brass as an edge highlight.

The last step is a little bit of a mistake really. Skullcrusher Brass is far more yellow than Runelord Brass and doesn't particularly fit. I have trouble with brass colours still.
The blade is more interesting:

• Caliban Green down the length of the blade.
• Corvus Black down the end, in multiple thin passes.
• Kabalite Green glazed towards the base of the blade, starting at about half the length of the blade and building up to a solid colour at the base.
• Sybarite Green, about a quarter of the length of the blade and again multiple glazes. It's frustrating having nothing else to glaze while waiting for each pass to dry. Small dents and chips in the blade also had a little applied just for effect.
• Aethermatic Blue thinned with Contrast Medium and glazed over the entire blade to help tie it all together.
• Mechanicus Standard Grey thinly applied as edge highlights along the tip of the blade.

The blue-green appearance was deliberately chosen to complement the purples, but also to tie in with the eyes, as though she's channeling power through the blade.

Finally, hooves and horns. I borrowed the technique used by Darren Latham in his youtube series (soon to be removed - shame on you Games Workshop).

• Rhinox Hide over all the horns and hooves.
• Rhinox Hide / Abaddon Black (just mixed on the palette) on the tips.
• Doombull Brown over about half of the detail.
• Skrag Brown over about a quarter of the detail.
• Balor Brown as small highlight lines over the previous step. It was at this point I also reversed back to Rhinox Hide for the hooves. They stood out too much if the base of them was too bright, so I glazed backwards to with paint from the palette, just to tone it back.
• Ushabti Bone as further highlight lines, though fewer in number.
• Screaming Skull as final edge highlights. I also glazed Skrag Brown back over some of the horns because again they were too bright and it just didn't quite fit.
• Screaming Skull / Rhinox Hide (about 1:2) just mixed on the palette, and added as shine highlights to the tips of the horns. I also applied this to the tips of the wing "claws" for a bit of colour because I didn't know what else to do with them.

Takes a fair bit of patience with such small details, but it's those that really matter the most I find.

Quite a fun model to work with, and hopefully I won't mess it up with the base. I'm also contemplating whether I should really give this a pass of Purity Seal, but I suppose I should, even if it will dull the metallics. I can always use a bit of gloss on them later.

-- silly painter.