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Here Ya go buddy! |
He also takes care of my house when I go away on vacation :)
So for all the snow shovelling, lawn mowing, tournament running, forum policing plant watering and general kindness that he brings to the table, I like to thank him with something he can throw down on the table and stomp people with (in style!)
Aside from being a great guy, Erik is an extremely viscous Khador player with a particular love of character assassination runs starring his Kommander Sorcha. (Drives me nuts - so if anyone out there has tips on neutralizing this particular piece of Khadorian nastiness do let me know....LOL!)
In the Khador book is a picture of Sorcha painted in a white outfit. For this Alternate model version of her Erik requested that I paint her in a similar "Winter White" alternate colour scheme. I decided to focus on surface textures to break up the potential monotony of a mostly white figure - and I think it really worked out! The hard armour was inspired by Stormtroopers from a certain galaxy far far away and is painted in a gloss coated white with sharp black delineation. In order to keep it from becoming too smple/plain I painted the metal grieves etc in a mixture of brown + black and a metallic tone. I think the touch warmth really adds to the overall appearance and makes it look more natural.
In contrast to the slick white armour, I painted the coat in many small soft brushstrokes with a bit of underbelly blue (SP?) mixed into the shadows. This gave it a much more cloth or short nap fur like appearance and makes an excellent contrast to the metals and hard armour. Quite pleased with this really.
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The face was painted with Reaper flesh tone triads - mostly the rosy triad in this case - to reflect the redness a Khadorian winter wind would be sure to bring out in fair Sorcha....
The metals were painted with a GW tin bits (or whatever the colour is called now - warplock bronze I think?) base and then highlighted with Reaper Pewter and P3 Radiant Platinum. I like these metal colours because they are a little warmer in their undertones - something I make use of quite often.
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Overall this was a fun and fairly successful paintjob! I think Erik will be proud to field the model and I am already terrified to face it! What more could be asked for. :)
Coming soon - another Khadorian caster and Gun Carriage I did for Erik, some new wreck markers, finishing off some old projects and continuing updates on the Beastman project!!!
2 comments:
To stop the "Sorcha Dash" don't leave a charge lane or shoot her in the face!
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Did you assemble the model? I'm having trouble with her weapon, the hands are too small to pin into I wondered if you had any tips. Iv tried searching but not seen any for this sculpt
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