Legion Praetors - Sons of Horus - Part II

 

Told the armourer to make it all shine.

The praetors are starting to look very close to how they'll end up, even if the gloss shades are currently a little overbearing. This will change once the varnish spray is applied, so it's not quite how the models will be in the end.

The main armour colours are what might be expected:

• Sons of Horus base coat.
• Sons of Horus / Lupercal Green (1:1) mixed and layered to create an initial highlight. The mix doesn't need to be done, but Lupercal Green is relatively desaturated and this just helped get the blending done more smoothly.
• Lupercal Green edge highlights. This isn't visible much, and was mostly done to make certain edges more prominent rather than act as a pure edge highlight.
• Sons of Horus thinned down to glaze consistency and used to smooth out rough blending. The key is really making it a glaze by using either water, or Lahmian Medium.
• Drakenhof Nightshade in the recessed areas.

Armour trim is so far a simple mix:

• Balthasar Gold / Warplock Bronze (1:1) mixed as a base coat. This is quite dark, and will get darker still, but is being used as a base for a later bronze appearance. This should help match against what is so far done with Horus, and pure Balthasar Gold is too yellow to fit.
• Agrax Earthshade (Gloss) to really get some dark recesses going. This is where the shine in the photos is coming from.

A lot of cabling is getting a new treatment:

Iron Warrior base over all the cabling.

Basilicanum Grey (Contrast) covering that.

Later step might highlight with Leadbelcher, but not until after the varnish spray.

Golden details are so far:

• Balthasar Gold
• Reikland Fleshshade (Gloss)
• Something will follow this later - very likely Gehenna's Gold.

Weapon hilts are:

• Retributor Armour
• Canoptek Armourshade (Gloss)
• Something will again follow this later, probably Liberator Gold. Very small details don't need much else to build them up.

The pteruges are done as with Horus, and I'm still deciding if that's enough, or if a little bit more of a red tint might be later used.

Still a little more to go before the varnish stage, but hopefully they'll be done before too much longer. It would be a good start to the painting year.

Ready to rip and teal.

-- silly painter