Age of Sigmar Fyreslayer Lodge
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About the Project
With the new edition of Age of Sigmar on the horizon I am getting on with painting up my Fyreslayer Dwarfs. Thought I'd share my progress with you all. For the Magmadroth I took inspiration from an online video by Big Mek Workshop and the GW TV pages, but have been varying it to suit my ability and style. I have learnt a lot painting the Magmadroth, and forced myself to use new techniques I normally shy away from like edge highlighting and flesh tones. Really pleased how it has turned out so far. There are some superfluous steps in there, especially on the riders hair where I went back and forth trying to get the right balance and contrast, but the lessons learnt will certainly help me formulate a speedy approach to painting up the rest of the foot troops.
Related Game: Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Fantasy
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Throne Part 2
The next step on the throne was to to do all the metalics.
I started with a base of AP Greedy Gold, on all metalic areas (runes, weapons, pommel/statue, etc)
These were then washed with AP strong tone ink.
Having learnt from before… I then picked out some of the details / drybrushed using Weapon Bronze. This gave a bit more life to the gold areas, without being too bright. Giving a nice burnished gold effect.
I then picked out the items I wanted to have silver finish (axe blades, select runes and details on the dragon pommel). These silver areas were also washed with AP strong tone ink, and then some edge highlights added using the AP shining silver again.
Using an airbrush I primed the model black, then I used Vallejo Wolf Grey all over, being careful to ensure not to go into the black recesses. Following this I did a light coat all over of Army Painter (AP) Deep Blue, watering this down using a thinner.
I then washed the entire throne with AP Deep Blue Ink, followed by AP Strong Tone Ink.
Once dry, I picked out all the areas I would be using metalics, or plenning to leave dark (eg axe handles) with a 2 part Oak Brown to 1 Part Matt Black mix. I find this gives a warm black finish (similar to GW Rhinox hide), and does not feel so stark on areas left deliberately black.
Final steps on the Magmadroth were to pick out all the runes with Greedy Gold, followed by a wash with strong tone ink and then added some highlights with shining silver. The silver was a bit bright so I used the wrong time ink again to knock the brightness back. I then picked out the beady eyes with multiple thin layers of yellow.
Using the 2 part oak brown to 1 part Matt Black mix I have gone back and picked out all the runes and the saddle, this will act as a consistent base colour for the runes.
Next up I used Army Painter Uniform Grey to edge highlight the spines and spikes. On the larger areas of the spikes doing a light drybrush. I then also drybrushed the claws.
Next I did the tongue. I wanted it as if the fire/magma insides of the beast were cooling as you reached the extremities. So I added yellow around the law and done the tongue, grading this in to a lava orange and then pure red, letting it fade off to black at the end of the tongue as it cools in the air. The result was a bit stripey, so I gave it a wash with red tone ink which helped to tie it all together. I might go back and drybrush this later to pick up the ridges on the tongue, undecided at present. Would welcome your thoughts.
So the next step was to do a light yellow dry brush over the back fins and tail (no photo). I then mixed Army Painter Oak Brown (2 parts) and Matt Black (1 part) and picked out all the spines, horns, death and claws
So the next step was to use Army Painter Lava Orange as a drybrush. I generally stayed away from the black feet areas this time, concentrating more on the scales, again drybrush against the direction of the scales.I am clearly going to need to take some higher definition photos once I’m done. As some of the subtleties are lost in the photos from my mobile.
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I then drybrushed the while model with Army Painter Pure red. Concentrating on the scales and areas still black, working against the direction of the scales to pick up on the ridges but allowing the colour transitions previously laid down with the airbrush still to show through.
Added a bright Vallejo Fire Orange over the areas painted with bone white, deliberately overspraying with the airbrush onto adjacent red areas.
Went back over the yellow areas again with yellow and then with a bone white. This is trying to build up a rich graduation of colour and to set the base for the next step
Back over the yellow with the red - was trying to create some graduation here, but I think I overdid it and washed it out.
