Legio Mortis - Adeptus Titanicus
Brush time!
Now, for what I was super excited for! I decided to do the plates in with candy colors over metallics. Never done that before. I have two colors to worry about, one of which drove my decision on how to approach this. Typically, you see a very high reflective silver under the candy coats. I wasn’t sure how that would work for the Mortis black, as that’s a lot of the model. I don’t have a good black transparent paint. I decided to utilize more of my favorite metallic paints. Alchemy range by Scale75 has some really great (and odd) colored metallic options. For the Reds, I used Garnet for the base metallic and Secret Weapon Ruby Wash for the transparency, for the blacks.. well the Black Metal of theirs isn’t very dark. I ended up choosing Vallejo Air Color Black Metal and Secret Weapon Heavy Body Black for the transparency. The black only took two coats before it was about right.. it was subduing the metallic sheen heavily.
The above, I had to do by hand as the model had to be assembled to that point before painting. The majority of the armor though, that isn’t the case. Back to the airbrush. The effect comes off a little bright here, planning for a wash that needs to happen later.
That’s it for the first week. It’s been good to have a large project again.
Love how the candy coloured plates are turning out.