Showcase 7 – Bloodletter of Khorne
Submitted by Cybersquig on January 27, 2010 – 2:04 am4 Comments
Hey,
For this week’s showcase I thought I’d show off one of my favourite minis. He’s a bloodletter of Khorne from Games Workshop. He’s also my highest scoring CMON mini, although if I’m honest I have some that I could have entered if I was inclined that I think could give it a run for its money. meh. Anyway, he’s converted from the basic plastic kit, most noteably he doesn’t have a cone head anymore, I sculpted his dorsal spikes to follow all the way over his head. His skin is painted in a distinctive textured ‘striated’ way, and his tail was sculpted to balance out his reaching arm.
I hope you like him, he was a pleasure to work on,
James
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I love this model. You did an amazing job. Would you mind posting a brief tutorial on hot you painted the muscle tissue?
no problem Underbheit. I’ve discussed this over on coolminiornot.com before, but the concept is really very simple, I started off a black undercoat, and then painted in long fast thin lines a very dark brown over that. I then kept layering this up through brown, into dark and medium reds, and then I added a little white to it to create a pinky colour, and added one final highlight. The trick to getting the striated flesh is simply to use a strong, fast, confident brush stroke, and to thin your paints enough that if you don’t quite get it right, you can either wipe it off and start again, or you can simply carry on painting and treat the last layer as a glaze to smooth the previous layers together. Then I added final white highlights, and black lowlights, and volia! I hope that helps, if there is anything there you aren’t getting, please feel free to get in contact and I’ll do my best to explain what i am saying more clearly.
James
Thanks a million.
I tried painting musculature before reading your guide here. It turned out okay. I’ll try it your way next time.