Marshal Grymm - Part 2 - Cloak and Armour

Leading their Black Templars brethren from the front lines, 

Marshals exemplify the strength and skill 

of the warriors under their command.

- Games Workshop

Welcome one and all to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season! We had an exciting weekend of festivities last weekend including a visit to Santa, a Christmas parade, a "sleigh" ride and getting ye olde Christmas Tree. My two-year-old was especially in her element and the rest of us (my wife, 4-month-old and i) had a grand old time.

If you didn't get a chance to check out last week's post, I would recommend you give it a little perusal. It will give some background for what we are talking about today. For today, we are looking at the armour, cloak, and details of Marshal Grymm.

The Armour:

I was inspired by the type of armour that k03rnl achieves. I followed his Instagram posts and watched his video tutorial and adapted his technique to the paints that I have. 

From a Chaos Black (for a Black Templar - heresy!) undercoat, I painted the armour with thinned Abaddon Black (also heresy!). 

Then brushed on my satin varnish (Stormshield). 

With the satin varnish fully dried, I applied the decal on his knee (from the Black Templars Army Box) and then I then glazed in Doombull Brown. I focused this colour around the greaves and lower body and because of the varnish, it flowed nicely into the nooks and crannies, simulating gathered dust and grime. 

Glaze Stegadon Scale Green onto the "upward facing" surfaces - focusing on the helmet, backpack and front leg. 

Next I glazed a 50:50 mix of Mechanicus Standard Grey : Abaddon Black (or simply Skavenblight Dinge) into the centre of the Stegadon areas. Also edge all areas now and add streaks and chips of battle damage. 

Then carefully paint thin edges and battle damage with 50:50 Mechanicus Standard Grey : White Scar (or Dawnstone)

Next I glazed back in with Abaddon black to areas that were looking too grey or blue. 

I give a final hight light with Corax White to the most prominent areas. 

Pauldrons:

For the pauldrons, I stippled up from Steel Legion Drab through Grey Seer to Corax White. I then added the decal and weathered with my AK Interactive weathering pencils, using the three different rust tones. 

I ended by drawing a line of Steel Legion Drab where the black and white meet. 

Cloak:

With the armour complete, it was on to the cloak. 

I felt inspired to push a bit of blending so I painted the cloak Wraithbone and then blocked in the shadows with Arabic Shadow from S75. This was way out of my comfort zone - I would usually have just started with Ushabti Bone, slathered on some Agrax Earthshade and then worked up some highlights. But, like I said, I wanted to push myself with this guy and part of that was not relying on shades. 

With the stark shades blocked in, it was "just" a matter of blending back and forth with mixes of these two colours. 

The last step was to glaze the whole cloak with a thinned layer of Contrast Skeleton Horde to bring it all together.

With the armour and the cloak complete that was about 90% of the model done, but...that was only about 25% of the time I spent on this guy. For the rest...tune in next time.

Watching: Squid Game

Reading: Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill

Drinking: The World's End - Black's of Kinsale

Next Week:

ho Ho HO!