You shall go to the Brawl.
In the heat of battle...
To Start things off I wanted a challenge and Akhet was a decent start to get me used to working with the larger scale miniatures, not only does he have a lot of blending work across the wings but also fire effects something I have no prior experience of painting.
For the wings I tried a simple colour blend from black to yellow, unfortunately on the larger scale figures it didn't look right so in the end i decided to try the stippling method. Taking the different coloured paints i applied small dots across the wings breaking up larger areas of colour with patches of lighter or darker shades, I was very pleased with this in the ned since it gave the impression of embers. to finish off the wings i did an edge highlight of pale yellow across the top half of the wings and light orange across the bottom edge.
For the tail feathers I used the same method, I wanted the feathers to look like a rising flame.
For the metal sections of the miniature I wanted a highly polished looking silver and gold rather than Iron/Steel and brass. Vallejo "Metal Colour" paints are pure alchemy in a pot, for the clean bright look i used Vallejo's silver and gold which ended up being perfect for what i wanted.
The blending on the head was achieved with a basic orange paint job as the base but then enhancing the colours using GW's glaze paints, by using either red or yellow I was able to create a nice transition with just a couple of layers of glaze and blending them together while wet at the mid point.
One of the biggest challenges was the fire sword, this was my first attempt at painting fire effects. I started with a solid white base cote before using one of GW's yellow contrast paints. Once dry i picked out a few areas with yellow paint before wet blending them with a strong red tone. to complete the effect I used GW's range of clear paints to glaze of the top to enhance the colour and give a glossier shine.
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