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Red Daemon Flesh and Wings

May 4, 2019

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The Daemon was previously given a zenithal preshade and left overnight to dry. I then dropped my airbrush prssure down to around 15 and thinned my paints down much futher and put a coat of VGS 72.111 Gory Red over the model. This came out too pink for my tasts so I swapped it out for VGC 72.012 Scarlett Red. The underside got minimal attention but the side and top got progressively more, still allowing the preshade to influence the colours

After it had had a few hours to dry, the model was given a wash of GW Carroburg Crimson

Once the wash had fully dried, I thinned down with water and GW Lahmium Medium some of the Scarlett Red and reclaimed everything but the recesses and undersides. Some GW Evil Sunz Scarlet was thinned and used to add highlights to the reclaimed areas. A few coats of each were used.

Then came the Foundry Nipple Pink system (Light, base and shade). I mixed 3 parts shade with 1 part Evil Sunz Scarlet, and thinned it down to apply the next highlight, covering most of the previus highlight. Then I did the same, but with pure Nipple Pink Shade. Then I highlighted edges and glints with thinned Nipple Pink Base, and finally just the glints and extreme highlights with Nipple Pink Highlight.

I am having a problem painting this model. Anywhere I want to put my hands theres a wing or a weapon in the pay. It means I often end up holding the brush a couple of inches higher up than is comfortable and I don’t have anywhere to balance my hands. As a result I am making more of a mess of this model than I might otherwise.

The skin tones all finished

Once the rest of the model is done I am hoping the flesh will look better. if not, I might revisit it with an all over glaze or a thinned ink or something to unify the layers better. We will see when I get there.

The wings got 2 coats of VMC 70.862 Black Grey. I got a couple of dots of this on the red skin, which I will tidy up once I'm done risking getting more mistakes to fix.

The wings were then drybrushed with VMC 70.905 Blue Grey Pale, and then any areas that were more raised got an extra drybush of VMC 70.906 Pale Blue in the hopes of adding a hint of colour to the end results.