Drazhar, Master of Blades; wip

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

So after the completion of my dwarves I have decided to paint up a couple of minis for pure fun, I got a few to do and decided to do something different. So as my first 40k mini in a long while here is Drazhar, Master of Blades.

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Now first things first, I went for a purple tone. A dark purple tone; chaos black and liche purple layered with more liche purple added in and highlighted by adding commando khaki. Looks pretty good in person but unfortunately does not photograph well at all, these are the best I could get - you can see it is purple but looks like there are no highlights or anything. There are, honest!! I will try to get better pictures next time.

I am going to do the mini with a sort of limited palette, first time for this but it may work (hopefully). The face mask will be commando khaki and bleached bone but will have a purple glaze/wash to tie it into the purple look. The blades I am tempted to try NMM but am not wholy confident on my blending abilities.

Now the base is another new thing for me, I am trying to get hold of some water effect materials (surprisingly hard to find in the UK/Europe) and make the barrel look as though it is sunk but leaked a liquid into a swampy looking thing. Hopefully, never tried this so it could all go tits up.


Anyway, comments and such welcome. Sorry about the pictures again.

KU

[Apocalyptic]

i can see some HLs.. but those pics aint too good, as you said yourself.. Will await more and better pics before any real statement!<br>

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Right, I am afraid this is the best I can do - I am limited here by my abilities and the shade. That being said there is not much to see anyway.

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KU

[ToMaZ]

Seems like a nice project.

On the fig, I would try to take the highlights further, and afterwords go back and shade with a darker tone. And I would edge the different armour plates with a lighter tone and blackline between the different plates some more. This is to seperate them from each other and add some contrast to the dark paintscheme. The edging will also prevent the mini from turning too bright.

Looking forward to see this thing finished

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Anyway, a bit of work and two films later here is the new look Drazhar;

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Well actually two versions of him. Both have been edited the same way but one has the white balance on the camera higher (I think that was the one above, but I forget). Anyway, this time you will notice he does indeed have purple armour!! I have included both pictures as one shows the highlights more, the mini itself if more an inbetween look but it very close to these pictures.

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What have I done? I edged the armoured plates a bit then I washed them all with a glaze of liche purple, chaos black and a touch of purple ink. I think I gave it three glazes and it seems to have brought the purple out well. The mask and skulls on the handles were done from a base coat of commando khaki and a touch of purple ink (made an interesting lillac shade ), commando khaki was used as the highlight before final ones of skull white mixed in were done. The eyes are golden yellow, sunburst yellow and then some skull white added.

KU

[Nameless]

Now the base is another new thing for me, I am trying to get hold of some water effect materials (surprisingly hard to find in the UK/Europe) and make the barrel look as though it is sunk but leaked a liquid into a swampy looking thing.

I don't understand, KU. You wanted to find Woodland Scenics water, I found an address of UK dealer for you. You wanted a replacement product - I proposed you Andrea water and directed to UK distributor. Heck, I even suggested that we have Andrea water in our shop, so you can order it there
You have even posted a link yourself to the page with products you can use as a water on bases.
How can you say, that these cannot be found in Europe?

Now, on to the base. I really like your idea, it completely suits the pose of that mini. He now looks as he is trying to keep balance on that sunk barrel. Matrix, part IV

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Nameless, you are right. All those things have been pointed out, this thread is a thing I er.. 'spam' all over in hopes people will give out more details. I am going to be looking into the stuff, there is a wedstore that someone is looking into said stuff. And I have had offers from a couple of people to buy and ship WS to me ^_^ That being said, I am lazy and get distracted.. don't take offence.

Now, the next parts will be my first attempts at NMM. Looked at a bunch of tutorials last night and found many.. extremely unhelpful. But I think I have found a few that'll help, Kaple's site has one that is quite good by the looks of things.

I do however require some help on the barrel. What colour? I was thinking green but to have a warning 'Hazardous' label upon it, not sure yet. Any ideas?

KU

[Nameless]

I don't feel offended, just surprised

Barrel - it's in water so definitely rust

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Fair enough. I will look into this stuff at some point soon.. need some. The rusted barrel has been suggested already and I think much of it to be rusted would work but I think some would not as its not been submerged so some colouring remaining on the very top would suit.

Now I just need to learn how to paint rust..

KU

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Well next pictures, same thing again two different settings - two pictures.

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Yes, that is my attempt at NMM. And well.. it failed. Looks very grey. But as this is my first attempt ever I am not too bothered, just means I will have to keep trying and improve upon it. A few things about this, the base coats were bluey hued probably not the best of starts. Then I believe I added too much white for the highlights and too much grey for the others, that and my blending was not up to scratch.

Why have I left it, you say? Well because its all about trial and error. Sure I could strip the blades and spikes and try again, and again, and again, and again... but ultimately this is my first try and well I can use it as a guide as where I went wrong or did good for following attempts. That and they grey weapons work, this is the fourty first millennium, who says the weapons must be silver?

The base will be tackled next, green barrel with some warning text, sractches and maybe a slight bit of rust on the torn edges. What you think?

KU