Horus Lupercal - Part V

Just flapping in the breeze.

 Time again for minor progress on Horus. Mainly I just wanted to jot down some notes on something new now, rather than wait until I've done a lot more and roll it up into a larger post.

Today it's the pteruges hanging from the waist. There's still some work to go on them, but there's enough to actually glue that part into place. I've already done those that fit on near the right shoulder, but they won't be attached until the full arm is ready as well.

I thought about the colour to use for a while and ultimately went with leathery brown, almost the same hue as the filigree edging on the the armour but with perhaps slightly more red to it. The whole idea is that they should not stand out against the upper chest, or eventually the face. I've gone with quite a bit of Contrast in the end:

• Wraithbone base over the leather areas.
• Snakebite Leather applied in a thin layer over the top. This is more glaze consistency - don't allow it to pool.
• Gore Grunta Fur / Contrast Medium (1:2 mix) to again glaze over the area. A second glaze was applied if that wasn't quite enough.
• Blood Angels Red mixed in with the leftover from the previous step, about a brush load. This was applied to the upper areas just for a little variety, and harmonises very well with the eye jewel on the torso area.
  
• Agrax Earthshade applied over most areas, but again not allowed too pool heavily. This step gives greater definition and depth to individual lengths of the leather.
• Wyldwood was lastly applied very carefully and in very small amounts to give greater depth and darken the areas a little more. Glaze consistency is again key.

I'm not yet fully done, as mentioned. The red needs some shadowing more against the belt, and a few edge highlights here and there wouldn't go astray. Just need to be very careful not to overdo it - it will be very difficult to fix mistakes from this point.

The metal ends I ended up with a more red metallic than the armour. I didn't want the bronzes of the armour, nor the golds on the weapon. Perhaps a different metal was used: gifts from allies, or trinkets made from the salvage of fallen enemies. Using a reddish metal ties it together with some colouring I've started to use on Blood Angels weapons, which again both signifies the closeness that Sanguinius once shared with Horus, and how that changed when Horus turned traitor.

• Screaming Bell as a base.
  
• Cryptek Armourshade to do what shades do.
• Runelord Brass as a first highight.
• Canoptek Alloy as a final edge highlight. This is a very light, desaturated metallic and so is best thinned down a little first. It ends up very close to a bright silver (just a little more brass into the mix) and was used directly on the pteruge studs.

There still a little eye jewel to be done as well, and I may end up with Contrast paints once again because this is the sort of area where they're very effective.

-- silly painter.