Ral Partha Death Dealer part 4

This week was a bit light on but I managed to clean up all the small areas that still needed to be done.  This was the glove, axe handle, saddle bag, horns and a general clean up.

Getting there

The horns I redid going from off white at the base of the horn to black at the tips.  Given the small area I did wet on wet blending going from VGC BoneWhite, Beasty Brown, VMA Armour brown to black.  I then went back and spot highlighted some VMC Light Sand and white on the upper most part of the horn.

For the axe handle I originally tried the normal brown to lighter brown highlighting but it didn’t work.  Instead I repainted the whole handle light brown and then attempted to paint in a wood grain using dark brown/black.  Then between the dark lines I highlighted up with a brown lightened with yellow.  It’s ok, but given the position of the axe handle so close to the body the back was very hard to do well.

On the helmet I redid some of the shadows in VMC Dark Sea Blue and redid the highlights in AP Silver and VMA Aluminium.  I also did a number of yellow and orange glazes over the helmet, top of the horse and the top of the cloak.  Basically trying to lift up the light level a bit more and also harmonise all the top parts of the figure as they will all have a very mild yellow glaze on them.  The lighting in the pictures make the helmet brighter than it is.

For the shield the bottom of the shield was still looking a bit muddy.  Instead of shading with brown I went back and started glazing down with yellow/orange and then orange to red at the bottom of the shield.  By using colours closer to yellow like orange really made a difference and made the yellow look shaded rather than brown.  I also did a number of yellow to white glazes on the top of the shield to brighten it up.  To pop out the eagle I did a very fine brown/black line around the whole eagle.  I was finding all the yellow glazes had softened the edges a bit too much.

An old Reaper paint shaker skull

Finally I started on the base ground work.  Still working on this trying to get a colour that works.  The large rock has since been repainted a dark red to tone down the base.  I also added a skull for some Death Dealer bling.  I was thinking about redoing the base to be a field of skulls but that was a bit much.

So nearly there.  Need to finish off the base and then the fine fiddle until I stop before I make things worse.