As Old as I Wanna Be

I wanted my knight to project that it was old — neglected, cursed with Nurgle's decay, and slowly succumbing to Grandfather's entropy.

The very sharp eyed among you may have noticed that the shot of my primed knight was ... rough, shall we say. Literally rough — I'd applied fine-grain sand to edges and other locations before priming, to ensure I had some raw texture to work with down the line.

Next step: The rust undercoat. First, I hit everything with a silver — I'm so tired of working with ceramite colors, I can't even explain with words — and then I added the rust colors.

Games Workshop's Knight Valiant, with a base made with cork and the scenic base from Forge World's Perturabo model.
Fine-grain sand has been liberally applied to the Knight Valiant.

To create the initial illusion of rust — it won't be the final, there's plenty more to do — I used Golden Hi-flow acrylics with an airbrush. I laid down a base of Sepia, then overlaid with Transparent Iron Red Oxide. There's a reason I'm laying down the rust effect first: it's because I'm going to create a mask, so when I apply my primary color, teal, I'll remove the mask and get a nice rust effect.

Alright, I Did Finish the Summer Plaguebearers

Plastic and metal plaguebearers by Games Workshop, including sand, rocks, and Secret Weapon Realistic Water.

The autumn summer plaguebearers are here! I had zero energy to work on much of anything hobby-related last month — between the new job; wrapping up some large, document-related things I was doing for a friend; and the general vagaries of life, I just sat on these guys for a few weeks. (I did do some work on the knight, of course, which I'll post soon; I've also been rebasing Seraphon lizardmen for Age of Hammer: Warsigmar — and I have the gruesome, hobby-knife-inflicted wounds to prove it. Cut away? I ain't no sissy.)