The chainsword

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Project Entry by skodamarine

The Chevrons

May 3, 2020

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Everybody knows that the Dept of Health and Safety is all powerful in 40K, and that they demand warning chevrons are painted on anything dangerous 🙂

I masked off the area to be left black with masking tape [Use decent quality stuff - the cheaper brands either won't stick so paint leaks under it, or will lift off the base paint when being removed].

Make sure to rub the edges of the masking tape to seal it to the surface.

I find GW base yellow works well as a base layer when covering darker colours - so many yellow paints are just too thin. I sponge it on to give a mottled texture

A lighter lemon paint is sponged on....

Then a pale brown very lighly sponged on the top of everything to give an aged look to che chevron painting.

Finally carefully peel off the masking tape - I tend to try to remove this before the paint is fully dry. If the paint had dried out I would probably lighly score the edges with a craft knife to stop the paint tearing off.

Next, I weather down the sword and add colour to details like wires. The chevrons will get a edge highlight in silver to represent scratches, and generally I will add rust and stains to my taste – as 40K isn’t a subtle setting I’ll probably go a bit cartoony with that.

The original plan was to recover the handle grip with a legth of suitable twine, but due to lockdown I can’t as I have nothing suitable already in the house. So when you next see the sword it’s handle will have been stained with a emulsion paint tester pot I found lying around – Emulsion will hopefully soak into the cloth so give a better finish than acrylics, although I wouldn’t recommend that for something that would be handled a lot – as this will just be hung on my wall it should be fine.