Chief Librarian Mephiston (Primaris) - Part V

Whatever he's looking at is about to have a very bad day.

Finally enough has been done to fully assemble this model of Mephiston. Naturally, the frustration continued throughout the entire process.

The syringes threaded through with cord was not aligned correctly to the attachment points, and I couldn't bend the plastic beforehand. So it was a case of trying to glue it in one position, and then bend it across to the other. This caused the first position to come loose naturally, and so it took a few tries to get it right. The end result was scratched paint and it not quite fitting correctly either (green-stuff again being used to fill a small gap in the area of the right hip). Just another frustration with the assembly of the model, but I didn't want to leave the syringes out - it adds a bit of colour and detail to the area, and means I now don't need to free-hand the hem.

The sword glued into position easily enough, and green-stuff to fill the join seam along his left glove worked quite well. A close up shows a few imperfections, but I just wanted to get the model moving along.

I thought long and hard about how to paint the sword, being partly the reason for the long break since the previous post. A sudden flash of inspiration was to paint it by taking cues from the Nekima model: dark at the end, blending into some kind of energy glow towards the hilt.

• 1:1 mix of Leadbelcher and Abaddon Black the length of the blade.
• Introduce more Leadbelcher to the mix, blending towards the hilt.
• Repeat again by adding more Leadbelcher.
• 1:1 mix of Leadbelcher and Grey Knights Steel, blending towards the hilt. It should be about one third of the blade by this point.
• Add more Grey Knights Steel, keep blending.
• Add Talassar Blue, just in the area near the hilt. There is also some along the tips of the spikes near the end of the blade.
• Straight Talassar Blue, but very little, to give that extra brightness in areas.
• Aethermatic Blue, just around the energy nodes on the blade.
• Abaddon Black, thinned with water, in multiple layers towards the tip of the blade.
• Leadbelcher from the palette, just in thin lines to highlight extreme edges.

I intend to put a very small amount of Drakenhof Nightshade around the energy nodes as well, just to define them better.

There remain a few edge highlights on the model to be done, and of course all the gemstones, before Purity Seal is applied and then final metallic highlights.

-- silly painter.