Monday, February 25, 2013

Monstrous Painting Competition

My friendly local Games Workshop is holding a painting competition which I have decided to enter. This one is for big models and I have decided to paint the Helbrute Dreadnought, Mortis Metalikus from the Dark Vengeance starter set. It will be the first model I've entered into a competition and I will be keeping a progress log here and also on the Dakka forums.

Here's the beast, ready for priming:
     


I will be going with the default Crimson Slaughter paint job as I quite enjoy the fluff surrounding the Dark Vengeance kit. Firstly, I'll be painting up two of the Chosen that came with the kit so that I get a bit of practice on the overall colour scheme that I'll be going with:



Here are the steps I'm going to use on my first test model:

1) Prime with Citadel Chaos Black spray paint

2) Base entire model in Mephiston Red
3) Heavy black wash

4) Paint all metallics
5) Block red back in with Mephiston Red
6) Highlight red with either Evil Sunz Scarlet or Wazdakka Red.

I haven't yet decided how I am going to do the detail work such as the horns or the flesh tones on the Hellbrute itself. I am looking for a reasonably bright arterial look for the red on the armour  like fresh blood and so I was thinking of a paler, deader looking skin to contrast.

I have also made myself a wet pallette using the tutorial I found on Dakka. It works great!






Stay tuned as I will try and post at least one update a week on how this is going.