The Sanguinor, Exemplar of the Host - Part I

 

Chest bump!

It's possibly not yet time for another post, but I wanted to record what I'd done to start with for the Sanguinor. This may end up leading into armour for Sanguinius, or tweaked for Adeptus Custodes, so it's worth noting it down.

Most of the work so far is with an airbrush:

• Balthasar Gold (Air). Either the paint was a bit thin, the nozzle was too close to the model, or there was moisture in the line because this needed a the base paint version to clean up a few places afterwards.
• Agrax Earthshade (Gloss) in recessed areas. This was just to make them darker, and the gloss version used for surface tension properties (or lack thereof) - the gloss finish itself doesn't matter as more metallic paint steps follow.
  
• Relictor Gold (Air). This is a good yellow gold, and highlights well over the previous step. It's a little more yellow than Gehenna's Gold, perhaps a mix of that and Auric Armour Gold. This was applied mostly from above and the sides.
  
• Thallax Gold (Air) mostly from above. This is a very nice gold, and close perhaps to Auric Armour Gold. It has a very yellow finish, and is one of the better paints I've used through an airbrush. Extra focus on the face, hair, and chest area.
• Reikland Fleshshade (Gloss) back over recessed areas. I may have gone a little too heavy with this step, but wanted the definition of various areas so needed it. Later steps will very likely add a hefty amount of white and might fade out armour detail by comparison without such contrast.

It's well worth noting at this point that during the airbrushing I was doing metallics of another model and had some blowback - and thankfully I was wearing a respirator mask. The paint is bad enough if it enters the lungs without metal flakes in it as well. The extractor hood I use is fairly effective normally, but this had visibly escaped. Always wear an effective mask when airbrushing.

There are obviously a good amount of details to fill in with this model, and a bit of the halo needs some repair. The "hair" I intend to highlight with a very bright gold, or a silver, and of course the wings need to be figured out. Another problem for this model is the spray varnish step, which would dull the metallics unacceptably. I may therefore have to skip that step and instead stick to applying varnish to select areas with a paintbrush.

-- silly painter.