23rd Steel Legion Regiment - for Epic Armageddon
Fire support on treads and from above - Part 2 - On to shading and metals
Metals, guns and shellsFor the above, I went with the following approach:
- Metallics
- Silver (Ammo by Mig, which has a crazy good coverge) + Lead Belcher (GW – to tone it down a little) (1:1)
- I applied this mix all over the crane and claws, as well as some of the rivets all over the vehicle (including the Shadowsword)
- Big Ass Shell
- Mem green + Greenskin flesh (Scale 75, 1:1) – watered down (2 thin coats 🙂 )
- I applied this in the main part of the shell
- Mojave White (Scale 75 , but any warm off-white will do) for the top of the shell
- Big Badaboom
- Reaper (GW)+ Tire Black (Secret Weapon) (1:1) – 3 thin coats
After these base coats were laid down, I went with a Nuln Oil Wash (GW) all over them, reinforcing it in the hydraulic pistons of the crane.
I then gave an agrax earthshade wash (GW) in the crane pistons again, as well as the shell.
I usually tone down the washes by mixing them 1:1 with Lahmian Medium (GW)
reinforcing the shadows in the panels and the highlight linesFinally, I went with an Agrax Earthshade + Nuln Oil + Lahmian Medium (1:1:1) wash that was applied like a pin wash to all the metal rivets, panel lines and was added to the vertical focusing more on the bottom of the models.
The photos are a bit too light to properly show the washes in the metallics, in particular.