...His Cenobyte Servitors lurch to war at his side,
bearing with them holy relics of the faith.
Good morning, welcome to an unseasonably sunny morning in the South West of Ireland and here on The Art of Caesura!
Over the past few weeks we've been looking at Grimaldus and Co. he's the head honcho when it comes to the Black Templars' spirituality (or I guess religiosity would be a more accurate term). Two weeks ago we painted the big man himself, and last week we looked at painting the marble on the Remnant that one of the Cenobite Servitors is carrying.
Today we'll return our attentions to Grimaldus' attendants as we look at how I painted the Servitors in general.
When I started on the iconic pallid skin of the Servitors, I looked back at one of my posts from a few years ago: X-101 from Blackstone Fortress for inspiration, and then I remembered the two Servitors on Helbrecht's base and I realized that I've painted a surprising number of Servitors for a Space Marine player!
And at this stage the Cenobyte Servitors were looking properly Hellraiserly Cenobite. It was at this moment that I remembered that I had wanted to zenithal hightlight these guys, especially the banner, to bring out some of its sculpted volumes.
Then I cracked back into the skin, returning a little bit of humanity to it with a mix of Cadian Fleshtone and Grey Seer.
...Perhaps too much humanity! So I coated the skin with Apothecary White - a beautiful translucent grey. This gave the skin the nice waxy pallor that I was going for.
I highlighted the skin gently with S75 Pale Skin. With the skin complete, I painted the rest of the Servitors.
I painted their under suits The Fang coated with a mix of Drakenhoff Nightshade and Nuln Oil. The tabbards started as Steel Legion Drab which I shaded with Agrax Earthshade and then highlighted back up through Steel Legion Drab with a bit of Wraithbone added in. My goal for their clothes was to keep them quite neutral so as to not draw any attention away from the relics that they are carrying.
I must admit, I didn't really know what the hell I was doing with the water boy (Cenobyte Servitor carrying the Sceptre of Anointing). I painted a whole water-themed Kharadron Overlords force, and I still find painting water to be very unnatural!
Anyway, I started the water bits with Stegadon Scale Green...
...Highlighted with Lothern Blue
...and then I just fiddled around adding white to represent the meniscus of the water as well as the glare coming off the glass receptacle.
Where I was a bit out to sea with the Holy Water, the Banner of the Fallen Crusaders basically painted itself! You can see the volume study that I had done in black and white with the airbrush earlier in this post. From that, I basically coated the banner in Fleshtearers Red - a deep, saturated, translucent red which still allowed the white areas from the zenithal highlight to show through.
I glazed on Kimera's The Red and then Evil Sunz Scarlet to bring out the prominent folds in the red fabric before blocking in the other colours.
I layered the skeleton up from Contrast Skeleton Horde to Rakarth Flesh.
What a bloody cool banner!
Once I had completed this model, I weighted his base with a 20 cent coin - it worked perfectly - stops him from falling over, and makes him feel wonderfully nostalgic of a time when the whole model would have been made out of pewter.
Looking at my WIP pictures, they can be quite busy at times with my paints behind them - especially the banner guy. It's all the trade-off of wanting to take a quick picture in the moment without breaking my flow, but still producing a photo that is useful and interesting for you, dear reader. I tried taking a family photo of Grimaldus and his quartet: "Grimmy and the Grimmer," but I need to work on the exposure of photos against a white background (I'm so used to photographing against black).
So thank you for tuning in to these few weeks of Painting Grimaldus and his crew. I have but one more work-in-progress post to show you before we reveal these guys in all of their finished, atmospheric glory
Tune in next week - same bat-time, same bat-channel, right here on The Art of Caesura!
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Reading: The Briar Club - Kate Quinn
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