"This Ebony Bird Beguiling" - Escher Gang III

Masters of pharmaceuticals and chemical manipulation, 
what an Escher may lack in terms of raw physical strength,
she more than makes up for in speed, skill and sheer psychotic flair.

~ Games Workshop


Welcome all to our final look at The Unkindness on The Art of Caesura!

For the past few weeks we've been looking at my first Necromunda Gang: The Unkindness. I've really really enjoyed painting this gang, and hope you've liked looking at them. 

Today we're going to finish out the gang with the last few members. 

Last week we had the gang's leader, The Crone, but this week I want to show off my favourite member of the gang...but we'll get to her.

I've been talking about how I've painted all the various elements of this gang, starting with their lower bodies (which I painted all the same to unify the gang), a few of my current skin recipes (African, Caucasian and Asian), and their very distinctive hair. 

Today I'll go into the last skin tone I used for this gang as well as the details on the models. 

For the model above (Korax) you can see the base coat of another skin tone I used for the gang. 

Indian Skin: 

Base coat: Doombull Brown, covered all over with Scale 75's Arabic Shadow, shaded with Agrax Earthshade and highlighted with Arabic Shadow with more and more Pale Skin mixed in. Here she is finished:

First, for today, is Korax

Over Korax's right shoulder in the first image of her above you can see the raven feathers. Many of the models have feathers on them somewhere and that, along with the many bird skulls which are also present, was one of my initial inspirations to make the gang raven-themed. 

To paint the feathers, I went back to the first model that I had painted raven feathers on: Silver Tower's boss, the Gaunt Summoner. I tried to replicated what I had done there by starting with Runefang Steel, I gave 3 coats of Drakenhof Nightshade and one of Nuln Oil then hit the edges with Runefang again for a bit of iridescence. 

Next is Koronis

The last member of the gang is Nevermore with the chem-thrower. Many of the gang members have warpaint on their faces. Last week I talked about how I paint it on light-skinned gangers; for dark-skinned gangers I paint it using thin layers of Vallejo's Phosphorescent airbrush colour paint. 

And finally, my personal fave, Nevermore

All of the gangers have their chem-synth packs with gauges that reminded me of those on my Kharadron Overlords. As you can see below, I painted the top of each gauge with a red "overdrive" zone. With my Kharadron I paint their tubing and aether-bits with Soulstone Blue over white, for these gals I used a similar technique but used Nurgle's Rot instead. 

And here are the three of them together!

I've loved introducing you to The Unkindness over the past few weeks, stay tuned for another special look at them here on The Art of Caesura!


Watching: MK11 at Evo 2019
Buying: Vox VFS5 guitar peddle 


Next Week:

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore...