Monday, December 19, 2022

Vanguard Veterans (WIP) Update 6

Progress on the vanguard vets:

Sky Gray on the helms in a few layers.  Also did gray on the lenses and then used Blood Angels Red contrast to color them in.




My planning sheet would have had me start on adding another level to the gold areas (brown-orange) if I were to follow previous patterns.  Instead, I've decided to do the shading and highlighting on all the blue first, then go in to do shading and highlights for all the rest.  The main reason is that once the blue is done I can attach the arms in the intended poses and know what the lighting will look like for the shade and highlights on the arms etc, without worrying too much about swapping them on and off as much.  Since they're magnetized its not too big of a deal, but I'd prefer to not be fiddling with it as much as I can.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Vanguard Veterans (WIP) Update 5

Midtone blue base layer (coat 1) done.  There are patches where it is patchy because I still need to apply the second layer that will even it out, but I think I want to shade first so that I can also glaze a nice transition in the shadowy areas.



Thursday, December 1, 2022

Vanguard Veterans (WIP) Update 4

Basecoats are blocked in for most colors, and just starting on the 2nd level layer of blue.