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Champion of Chaos Undivided
If you're familiar with Games Workshop and Warhammer in general, you might recognize this miniature in more than one way. Does perhaps the colour scheme look familiar? I've used the GW colour scheme completely for this figure. I really like the gold, black and red combination, so I decided to change nothing about GW's own colours, and just do it like theirs. The hardest part for me on this miniature were the metallics. It's hard to get metallics to look realistic and good, I think. I've experimented with different gold colours here to get the right colour which I felt happy with. I've used GW's metal colours, and Vallejo game colours for all other colours. Vallejo's metal colours are too shiny and blue-like for my taste. I've used Shining gold for the gold, shaded with thinned dark brown, highlighted again with Shining gold, then shining gold mixed with mithril silver, then finally highlighted with only mithril silver. I haven't tried to do metallics that way before, but I'm pretty happy with how they turned out I even copied GW's idea for blood on the axes. I think it fits this model and makes him look like he's out on a battlefield and looking for more innocent victims :) I tried something different for the red cloak as well, that I normally don't do. I based it with a dark red, then shaded it with black, then highlighted with a dark red again and put in some brighter red and highlighted all the way up to bright red (Vallejo Blood Red). I used nothing but shades of red and black for washing on the cloak. Normally I would use yellow or orange to highlight red, but I think yellow or orange makes red look less like red and more like orange. This method gives a very deep and warm kind of red, if you ask me. I kept the horns a lot darker than in the GW original that I copied. I think the original horns look too cartoon-like and I wanted to give mine a more organical and real feel to them. They're just Bonewhite and Catachan green, mixed together, blended and then shaded with black for a dark look. Well.. the rest was easy ;)
Posted: 2 Jun 2004
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