Ride the air
in whirlwind.
John Milton - Paradise Lost
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I hope life is going well, and that you have a nice weekend ahead of you! I'm on holidays at the moment for my birthday, so life is good indeed!
If you didn't check out last week's post, I'd urge you to scroll down (or click on the link to the right) and give it an ol' peruse first. Last week we focused mostly on the construction of this guy's base and looked at some work-in-progress shots of painting him. Today we'll look at the finished model.
The fun thing about painting this guy was that I pushed myself to use only colours that I had used on my Arkanauts. But I kind of inverted them. Where the Arkanauts were mostly dark blue armour with copper / brass detailing, this guy has brass armour with dark blue robes.
The pale trim of his robes hearkens back to the Ushabti bone under-suits of the Arkanauts.
I even managed to work in the magical aether effect (White Scar with Soulstone Blue over it) for his soul flasks and eyes.
I made one little woopsie, in terms of continuity: the brown on the Arkanauts (gloves and belts etc.) uses a base of Doombull Brown mixed with black, where the Knight Incantor's brown (gloves) have Steel Legion Drab as their base. Not a biggie.
Most of the versions of this model I've seen have had his beard painted white (in keeping with the whole "mage-look") but I painted my guy's a fiery red. I think it gives him a bit more vigour, and complements the reds in his coppery armour nicely.
As we mentioned last week, there is loads of movement in this model, and I tried to accentuate the upward motion by leaning the model back a little bit (his heels are hanging over the edge!) so that he really looks like he's pulling up the levitating stones and crashing wave through force of will.
Have a great weekend and we'll see you next Friday on The Art of Caesura!
Reading: Paradise Lost - John Milton
Celebrating: My birthday in a couple days!
Next Week:
A bit late for Orctober...
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