"For Khorne!" - Slaughterpriest with Hackblade and Wrath-hammer Part II

Looming over his Bloodbound brethren, 
his face locked into a permanent rictus of raging hatred, 
the Slaughterpriest is literally swollen with the force of Chaos.

~ Games Workshop


Come get your blood and skulls right here on The Art of Caesura!

We've had a ton of Necromunda content recently on The Art of Caesura, last week we began to mix it up with something completely different. 

A couple of years ago I got this model for free with White Dwarf. I actually bought two at the time and whenever I have two of a model I like to do the first one "out of the box" and then go a bit crazy with the other one. I have a (pretty common) conversion planned for my other copy of this model, but for this one, I wanted to give a standard build and paint scheme for a champion of Khorne - The Blood God. 

Painting this model was an interesting journey. I actually started it months and months ago: I base-coated the skin (Bugman's Glow), then base-coated the armour panels and filigree brutal brass spikes and edging; painted the loincloth, and then, wanting to really intensify the warm red tones of Khorne, I washed the whole model with Reikland Fleshshade. And that's where it all went to pot. 

The skin, Bugman's Glow now washed with a reddish-brown ink was super red and dark, I tried highlighting it up with a mix of really diluted Scale 75 Pink Flesh and Basic Flesh but it just looked horrible. I had totally misjudged the value, and had leaped for much too light a tone over the base. It was all a muddy mess!

It was around this time that I said "well bugger it all!" set the model aside, and went onto other things, namely The Unkindness. But this Slaughterpriest sat at the back of my hobby desk (along side broken models waiting to be repaired) mocking me with his horribly mottled skin. He looked more like a "burn victim of Khorne" than a champion of Khorne.

So just last week, after finishing my extended stint in the Necromunda universe, I decided "That's it, your time has come!" The salvage mission began by carefully painting over all the skin with Wraithbone, and using this as an opportunity to use my Contrast Paints (newly arrived...finally!) I then used Fyreslayer Flesh, to quite good effect actually! From my new position, with the Fyreslayer Flesh dry, I was already much happier with the skin, and found it much easier to highlight up with Scale 75's Basic Flesh mixed with more and more Pale Flesh. 

With the skin saved, highlighting the rest of the elements was quite straight forward. I originally intended to make the weapons more green obsidian to contrast the red, but veered off into the blue hues (dry brushing Lothern Blue) to better match the base, and bring in those cool tones. 

When all is said and done, it feels good to go back and "fix" a model you're unhappy with. And now, I'm thrilled with him!

Watching: Chernobyl

Reading: The Wicked and the Damned - Various Authors

Next Week:

THE 200th BLOG POST!!!!