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"Wakanda Forever" - Black Panther - Part 1

For Honor, For Legacy, For Wakanda!

- Black Panther

 
Hello friends of the Caesura, welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

After a deep dive into 3D printing over the past month and a bit, it's time to return to our bread and butter: miniature painting!

Back in November, I had the very great joy of painting a few of the very awesome minis from Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game (One of the more clunky IP-sparing naming conventions - right up there with Total War: Warhammer - which I shall henceforth be referring to as "Marvel Zombicide".) It is now time to share these cool dudes with you, starting with Black Panther!


I have been looking forward to painting the models from this game (as well as Marvel Crisis Protocol) literally for years. I kind of knew that the fun, exaggerated musculature of the superheroes, as well as the (often) vibrant colours of their garb would be a nice step away from the drab colours that I usually favour. Okay, today's model (like my entire 40k army) is black...but hey, there's green on his base!



From a black undercoat, I airbrushed Stegadon Scale Green (a dark teal) mostly from above, but really trying to cover much of the model. 




If you have followed my Eternal Crusade of painting Black Templars models, you'll know that I both paint A LOT of black, think about painting black a lot and don't like to paint black using pure black (because it's really flat and boring), hence I'm starting this "black" with a teal. 


With the Stegadon Scale Green in place, I airbrushed on Skavenblight Dinge. I knew the airbrush would be a godsend when it came to defining the exaggerated volumes of the muscle groups, and boy was it ever! By spraying each step at a more acute angle than the previous layer (getting closer and closer to spraying from directly overhead), the muscles defined themselves quite organically. 



After Skavenblight Dinge, I airbrushed on Dawnstone and then Grey Seer. 









Don't worry, I know he was starting to look a little stark - all part of the plan! The next step would be to use a dark unifying wash (Contrast Black Templar) to both deepen the hue, and tie the previous layers together. 


Whenever I am going to be using a unifying wash (or "all-over wash") I always highlight up the step prior to the wash one gradient lighter than I would otherwise do, that's to compensate for the wash darkening things down. 


With the unifying wash in place it was time to holster my airbrush and whip out the hairy brush! 

I glazed in Dawnstone and Grey Seer working my way up to pure grey seer. The next 6 photos are all taken at the same step (no further paint was added to the model) just to demonstrate what it looked like under different light and exposure settings and to prove that, while he certainly looks like a "Grey Panther" under my brilliant day-light bulbs, he certainly looks more like a Black Panther under the room lighting. 







With the black done, I just picked out the bones around his shoulders and his eyes and it was on to the base!


I wanted to create a nice contrast between the cool blue that I used for the man himself (having started on the blue side of the colour wheel) and the warmth of his natural surroundings. To establish this, I started with a warm reddy-brown: Mournfang Brown. 


The greens I used also had a lot of warmth in them. Scorpion Green is a very electric, yellow-green. 


I used texture to create further contrast with the base. Where I had emphasized the smoothness of his suit through the use of the airbrush and glazing, I stippled the greens and browns onto the base. 





What an awesome model! And this is a mass-produced PVC boardgame miniature!!!! Unreal. 

Join me next week for more on The Art of Caesura!


Reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
Gaming: Doom the Dark Ages


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Prowling through the dark...

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