Spring Cleaning - A-bad'un the Bit-smaller
Cant you just leave your trophies on the mantelpiece!?
I left the trophy rack off the model on purpose, there is a lot of little details on these bits which would be very difficult to reach if they were assembled at the start, it's far easier to apply a solid base coat and wash while they are separate and then finish off with highlights after they have been attached. I base coated the skulls in zandri dust and the genestealer skull in sDaemonette Hide and with the return of Roboute Guilliman (Robot Girly-man) the space marine helmet of course needed to be a Ultra Smurf Marine.
I first thought the spikes were metal but looking at them now i can see the top of one appears to be splintered and studs are present in a few of the poles (no doubt a Slaanesh fashion statement) so i decided to give them a brown colour, rhinox hide followed by some gorthor brown followed by a wash of agrax. Skulls were layered with ushbiti bone, helmet done with Ultramarine blue and the genestraler skull in Slannesh grey
Once the base colours were done I could then glue the racks on and one they were in place i finished up with some edge highlights, at the back of the row of spikes there is a small sack i painted this up following the standard colours for flesh (Bugmans glow, cadian fleshtone, reikland fleshshade and finished off with kislev flesh), i wanted it to look like some small pouch made from some poor guard's skin.
The last part of the rack was the rack tassles (obviously another Slaanesh fashion choice) they needed to be different and a bit more vibrant than the surrounding colours so i went for a really bright orange and trashy pink.... SKULLS FOR KHORNE.... TASSLES, STUDS AND CHAINS FOR SLAANESH
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