El Torres and display plinth

As usual a few different painting streams going on this week.

Firstly the Doom figures are moving slowly.  I’ve finished the shading on 5 out of 6 Hell Knight figures so may be able to finish them all off next week.

Getting tired of being on this stick

Secondly I worked on the breastplate and shoulder pad of El Torres.  I’m pretty happy with the back, but I’m thinking the front is too clean and shiny.  I need to add some damage wear to make the whole thing look more realistic.  At the moment he looks like he just stepped out of the buffing machine.  I also cleaned up a few mistakes where I had missed with the brush and also tidied up his left eye.  I still need to clean up a few marks on his face where the blending isn’t good enough and you can see the different colour lines.

Hello Mr Hell Knight in the distance

Since the photos I have also worked on this ammo strap at the back and the smaller straps on the knees/elbows that hold on his armour there.  My dark to light mix there was

VMC German Black Brown
VGC Earth
VGC Khaki
VMC Iraqi Sand

Thirdly I’ve started working on the display plinth.  Originally I was going to use a rectangular piece of pine but changed my mind when I saw a raw wood lounge leg in Mitre 10.  These legs are the kind that screw into the bottom of your lounge and can be stained to suit.  Not sure how you would loose a lounge leg in the first place.

Traditional Cedar stain test

I removed the screw, plugged the screw hole with a piece of dowel that I glued in and reduced the height by approx 1/3.  With the wood that was removed I did some test stains/paints.  I tried enamel satin black, a Japan black stain and a “Traditional Cedar” stain.  The picture is with the traditional cedar with I think looks the best.

So next week will hopefully be more Hell Knights, armour damage on El Torres and starting the diorama extras (gun, cup, tongs) for El Torres.  Also I need to go back and have another try on the sandstone.