The Emperor Protects ~ Adepta Sororitas ~ A Sisters of Battle Project

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I WANT IT PAINTED BLACK ~ PAINTING THE BLACK ARMOUR

March 15, 2020

Tutoring 14

Skill 15

Idea 12

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I WANT IT PAINTED BLACK ~ PAINTING THE BLACK ARMOUR

ALL BLACK EVERYTHING

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Wowza two updates within a couple of days. Someone actually took some time out to paint for a change. YES! Today It’s all about highlighting the black armour on my sisters of battle. Ooh I’m seeing the finish line now. Just a few more details to go & I’m calling the first 4 models from my box set done. Without further ado here’s the paint list.

PAINT LIST

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• DARK REAPER
• THUNDERHAWK BLUE
• WHITE SCAR
• CONTRAST BLACK TEMPLAR
• CONTRAST MEDIUM

BLACKALISCIOUS

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Ok lets get started, I began by applying a wide highlight of Dark Reaper around all the outer edges of the armour panels including the feet, legs, backpack, hands & all that goodness. Don’t worry about being too neat at this stage as Dark Reaper is a great colour to add more depth to the true black base coat.

After that dried I applied a thinner highlight of Thunderhawk Blue to all the same panels leaving some of the Dark Reaper layer showing below.

I then mixed a 1:1 ratio of Thunderhawk Blue & White Scar to make a lighter grey. I applied this as a very fine edge highlight to only the most outer points of armour panels where the light would hit the surface the most.

With the highlights in place you can see it’s really contrasty so in this step I knocked those highlights back by mixing a 1:1 ratio of Contrast Black Templar to Contrast Medium. This was applied as a glaze over all those highlights we have just applied to the models.

Finally I used the same 1:1 ratio of Thunderhawk Blue & White Scar from the previous step to very lightly re highlight those top most panels of the armour. What I’m left with is a pretty smooth (for me) transition on the black armour. Hey presto that’s the black done. YES!