This model was painted to be the "Technomancer" for my Hierotek Circle Kill Team. I tried to walk the line between the traditional Sautekh Dynasty colour scheme and the more characterful paint job from the box.
Living Metal
- Basecoat the model with Gunmetal Grey .
- With an airbrush, spray an all over zenethal highlight of Duraluminum downwards at a 45 degree angle.
- Spray White Aluminum almost straight downward, from the top of the model. Be selective only catching the very top, face and shoulders.
- Now we do an oil wash on all of the Necron and the weapon coil. I poured out the amount odourless Artists' White Spirits I felt I needed for the wash and added paint to it, until I was happy with the consistency. I used 3 parts Ivory Black, with 1.5 parts Burnt Sienna and 1 part Cobalt Violet Hue, all from the Winton range of oil paints.
- After giving the oil paint at least an hour to dry, wipe paint from the exposed areas and avoid recesses. I like to use makeup sponges or those little sponges on stick for applying makeup. If you want to remove the paint extra thoroughly in an area, add a very small amount of white odourless Artists' White Spirits to the sponge.
- Selectively highlight exposed edges and places where the light would hit with Silver RLM01 Metallic .
Black Armour
- Basecoat with Black .
- Chunky highlights of Incubi Darkness .
- Fine edge highlights of Sons of Horus Green .
- Selective highlights of 1:1 Sons of Horus Green and Sybarite Green .
- Add some White to the previous mix, and add specular highlights.
White Armour
- Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Grey Seer and White .
- Glaze/shade with Grey Seer . Be quite generous with the area you shade.
- Add additional shading with Dawnstone . Make this stage more selective.
- In areas where you want a clear division, shade with very thin lines of Skavenblight Dinge .
- Add edge highlights with White .
Dark Green Details
- Basecoat with 1:1 Abaddon Black and Caliban Green .
- Shade recesses with Abaddon Black .
- Apply chunky highlights with Warpstone Glow .
- Apply selective edge highlights with Moot Green .
- Now highlight corners with 1:1 Moot Green and Ice Yellow .
- Add some White to the above mix, then do specular highlights on corners.
Light Green Energy
- Basecoat with White .
- Wash with Tesseract Glow .
- Shade with thin Warpstone Glow .
- Shade the deepest areas with Caliban Green .
- Towards the centre, mix your Tesseract Glow with some White and lighten a small area, leaving space to get brighter.
- Finish with a small amount of White in the very centre.
Gold Details
- Basecoat with 1:1 Retributor Armour and Balthasar Gold .
- Shade with Gore-grunta Fur . I like to work it on my wet palette then selectively shade recesses, rather than wash the whole thing.
- Add deep shading to recesses with a thin mix of Doombull Brown and Abaddon Black .
- Add some Silver to what remains of your base mix, then highlight.
- Finally, highlight more selectively with pure Silver .
While I had the Gore-grunta Fur out, I also washed the ridged tubing with it at this stage.
Black Weapon Casing
- Basecoat with Black .
- Add chunky highlights of Dark Reaper .
- Fine highlights withal mix of Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey .
- Selectively highlight with Administratum Grey .
Green Blade
- Bbasecoat with 1:1 Waaagh! Flesh and Moot Green .
- Glaze/shade just under half with Incubi Darkness .
- Mix the Incubi Darkness 1:1 with Abaddon Black . Use this to shade roughly a quarter of the blade.
- Use Abaddon Black to shade a small area and the recesses between segments.
- Glaze the opposite (almost) half with Moot Green . Leaving a very small amount of the basecoat in the middle.
- Now mix the Moot Green 1:1 with Ice Yellow and glaze roughly the quarter closest to the tip. Use this same mix to edge highlight the whole blade.
- With pure Ice Yellow add ferly small highlights and more selectively edge highlight bright areas.
- Add some White to your Ice Yellow and add very small highlights to the "sharpest" areas.
- Finish with very occasional specular highlights of White .
Blackstone Crystal
- Basecoat with Sons of Horus Green .
- Glaze just under half of the top of each panel with Incubi Darkness .
- Repeat in the top quarter with 1:1 Incubi Darkness and Abaddon Black .
- Glaze just under half of the bottom of each panel with 1:1 Sons of Horus Green and Sybarite Green .
- Repeat in the bottom quarter with Sybarite Green .
- Edge highlight with Sybarite Green and a little White .
- Finish with specular highlights of White on corners.
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