Draconis does…… Droids! Back to Star Wars Legion again.
General Grievous – the end
At the end of the week I managed to finish off the minis by painting up General Grievous. Going to sound a bit like a broken record, but wasn’t too happy with how it went overall.
Started out by painting up the cloak. This was with a dark grey, followed by successive lighter drybrushing and a final thinned highlight of a mid grey. The inside of the cloak was first given a white drybrush, then painted with contrast red.
For Big G I painted all the black joint parts with contrast black that was then drybrushed lightly with silver. This was followed by tidying up all the armour areas from where I had overpainted them. Then I washed the armour plates with a thinned down version of the contrast used for the B1 droids, and re highlighted the edges etc.
I painted in the red(ish) tone around his eyes, then picked out the yellow. I didn’t go for trying to add the pupils… but may do so in the future.
Next up I put all the pieces together and painted up the lightsabres. For the green I used a ‘Fluor’ Green from Green stuff world. The blue I tried a contrast. They then all had highlight stages of white mixed with the base colour (on opposite sides of the blades) followed by a thinned line of white.
A few minor touches and he was done. Didn’t quite come out how I wanted, but it is done. The green sabres look pretty good irl though, and am happy with how they finished up.
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