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Evil, or just misunderstood?

I’m starting the year with a couple of test models for one of this year’s big hobby projects: the cosmic “Bond Villains” that are the Word Bearers. I’ve kinda fallen in love with how comically over-the-top evil they are, yet also comically inept.

This was just supposed to be a quick and small project using kits I had in my backlog, but it’s since grown arms and tentacles as it turned out I had passively acquired a lot of CSM kits over the years, and Christmas added a couple more… oh well!

The paint scheme itself is relatively simple, though given how much trim there is on Chaos Marines, I hesitate to say it’s “quick”:

  1. Spray the whole model silver
  2. Wash the trim with Gryph-Charger Grey Contrast paint
  3. Drybrush everything with Necron Compound
  4. Paint the armour panels with Flesh Tearers Red Contrast paint
  5. Apply Black Templar Contrast paint to the soft materials between joints and to gun casings
  6. Paint the tabard, horns, and pistol holsters with Ivory
  7. Wash the weapons and power pack with Nuln Oil Shade
  8. Anything golden is given a coat of Nazdreg Yellow Contrast paint over the silver. Bronze is Snakebite Leather over silver
  9. Belts and other leather details like the holsters are given a coat of Garaghak’s Sewer Contrast paint
  10. Shoulders are filled in with Black
  11. Bones and horns are given a coat of Skeleton Horde Contrast Paint, with some Snakebite Leather blended into the base of the area
  12. Tabards are painted with a mix of Black Templar and Dark Angel Green Contrast paint
  13. Eyes are painted with Tesseract Glow, straight over the silver. A little bit was added around the eye, to create a glow effect
  14. Any touch ups to the trim were made with Plate Mail Air by the Army Painter

And that’s it for now… I’m hoping to avoid edge highlighting by relying on Contrast paints doing their thing, and shading down, rather than going lighter. I might add an oil pin wash for more separation between areas, once I’ve done the transfers, but I’m not 100% decided on that.

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This is labeled as a work in progress, but the model is basically done, barring a couple of touch-ups, and actually attaching it to a base.

By-and-large, the process for most details were as per this tutorial from Cult of Paint:

The gloves and many other parts of the scheme were also painted this way. I deviated with the red, trying to get a deeper colour, and the black robes were painted by going from Valejjo Model Color Black > Scale 75 Eclipse Grey > Scale 75 Graphene Grey.

The skin was painted with Scale75 Artist Dark Brown Ochre, blended through Scale 75 Artist Wood, then adding small highlights by mixing in Scale 75 Artist Buff. I tried to paint in the eyes, but my own eyes are no longer up to the task, so I ended up just shading in the sockets. I might give it one last go, when I do the final corrections, but the last thing I want is to be obscuring detail – or worse – make a mistake that means repainting the whole face.

The materials on the model representing a fabric (or similar) material were given a coat of Ammo Ultra-Matte varnish, to differentiate them from the satin finish of the armour.

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Continuing on with my long-neglected Custodes, I started repainting the miniatures I had already started on the project, to match the same process as used on the Shield-Commander. The gold has come out very slightly different to on the Commander, but I put that down to not pushing the highlights as much, and starting from a different base colour (spraying over a gold primer, rather than black).

I’ve really just got the plumes, spear blades, and adding some definition to the gloves, then these will be ready for basing.