First Model

I said in my last post, I've painted up one Wrack model now, and done an initial layer on a second.

With my first guy, I wanted to do an area at a time, and concentrate on making it look right before moving onto the next area. Not the right way to paint a miniature of course, as there'll be inevitable rogue brush strokes to correct, but I wanted to see how I was doing at each aspect of the miniature before moving on.

DE skin should probably be that pasty, grey, ailing look. So, I started with Deneb Stone, with the intention of moving up to Fortress Grey. After the initial base coat, I applied a wash of Ogryn Flesh.

In hindsight, I think it's a little too contrasting to the skin. A bit of watering down required to soften the tone (note the above picture is of the finished model). Also, I think when applying the next layer I kept too much of the washed-flesh on show, there's too much ink still viewable.

The next part was the metal. On the wracks there's hooks, chains, blades - all manor of torture devices. I want to make the blades et al look used, bloodied, rusted. To achieve this, I started with a base coat of Tin Bitz, then added a touch of chainmail to all of the subsequent layers.

To create the blood effect, I first applied a Baal flesh wash over a large area, then appled Scab red paint over a slightly decreased area. I like how it looks.

I'm not particularly happy with the black robe, I meant to just add a tiny dash of brown to it to perhaps soften it around the edges, but it ended up turning out a strange dark green. It looks ok as a start I would say.

Anyway, here's a few pictures of the finished first model.