Stormcast Sequitors - Part V (Showcase)

 

Honourable colours.

Silver Lion Lady.

The push-fit Sequitors are now "done". Mostly because I say they're done, not because they're up to the proper standard - they were used for experimenting with oil paints, and mission accomplished. I also used the opportunity to try a different skin tone to normal, and with patterns on shields. Both of those worked out quite well I think.

The skin tone involved quite a bit of wet palette usage - it wasn't just one colour covering another, I did mix things before application. This is preferred because it's not easily exactly repeatable, and skin tones aren't exact copies either.

• Rhinox Hide base.
• Skrag Brown mixed, about 50/50, and used for initial highlights.
• Deathclaw Brown mixed into that, and used for secondary highlights.
• Cadian Fleshtone mixed in, only about as 10% or maybe 20% of the mix, and used for further edge highlights (nose, upper cheeks, brow).

A little grey was mixed around with whatever was on the palette for the shaved sides of the head, and quite obviously darker colours for the hair (don't recall what - it was just using whatever was available at the time and I didn't write it down).

Despite some of the vibrancy being lost by the varnish layer over the oils, the colours come out well enough. It took a very long time without that varnish to dry, and kept a gloss appearance in places. I suspect this partially from the local area being unsuitable to curing, and over reliance on linseed oil to smooth out the paint - but I still prefer that over smelly white spirits.

The white (actually very light blue-grey) helmets don't really fit, and I'm aware of that. Maybe a blue to match the armour, or a black would have been better. I was aware of that going in, and kept the colour so that it might fit with the few other models I've painted up, but seeing as I'm unlikely to really field them as an army perhaps I should just use what remaining Age of Sigmar models I have to play with colour schemes some more.

-- silly painter.