I have signed up for the August monthly vow over at The Dark City and my pledge is to complete my Talos which has been hanging around for a very long time. I'll add to this post as I make progress on the model.
016.M3 - somewhere in the back end of July...
I originally (2014) started painting this model in my Kabal colours prior deciding on the Coven scheme. On top of that I really wasn't happy with the colour mismatch on the weapon plates so I made the decision to repaint.
So, first step, cover the magenta armour in Vallejo Model Air Rust. This gave a brown base that covered the magenta quite well.
I then dabbed thinned out Ushabti Bone on all of the armour plating using sea sponge. Over this a wash of very thin Abaddon Black. I alternated between wiping it on very thinly to dabbing (stippling) with the sponge.
Finally I built up to a mix of Ushabti Bone and Pallid Wych flesh. I made sure to leave streaks of the underlying colour visible though to make it look weathered.
After I had the armour colour in a good place, I used Vallejo Game Color Charred Brown to introduce a chipping effect on the armour. I was going for gritty, dirty and rusty and this is what I ended up with...
For a starting point, I must say I was pretty happy with it.
016.M3 - 2nd August
I decided to work on individual sections of the Talos and assemble them as they neared completion. The base/tail was my starting point, after which I added the torso, carapace and face mask.
I had magnetised the model when I built it so adding and removing the weapons is a breeze.
As of 3rd August, I'm close to completing this section. The flesh is complete, and the armour is ready for the final wash of AK Interactive light rust. I have applied a gloss varnish to the armour plates in preparation for that step. The last big job to do on this section are all of the vials and tubes. I'll be using my day glow pigments for those (at the moment I have a very rough base colour on them as you can see here).
Here's a close up of the completed flesh and armour plates
So, the nearly completed torso/tail section now looks like this...
And yes, I've also started the base as well!
016.M3 - 7th August
Lots of time over the last few days has gone into:
- Magnetising the tail weapon cover plate (magnet added to the top of each weapon and small magnet added to the bottom of the cover plate)
- Painting weapons
- Painting "bone" rack (you know, those bits that go on the top of the talos, pictured top right in the pic below)
For the record, this model is bloody fiddly and time consuming!
016.M3 - 31st August
And it's done. Am I 100% happy? No. Am I 80% happy? Yes. So it's done.
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