"No Moral Compass" - Zombie Iron Man

"No Moral Compass" - Zombie Iron Man - Part 2

“I take back 50% of all the bad things I ever said about you.”

Iron Man #308

Hello one and all and welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

I have been really enjoying sharing these superheroes (and zombie heroes) with you over the past few weeks. It has also been fun for me to return to them because I actually painted them half a year ago! It really makes me want to paint more of these fun models.

I'm delighted with how Zombie Iron Man turned out! Since last week, I toned down the glow on his chest and hand a bit and yet increased its contrast. I accomplished this by paining Agrax Earthshade mixed with Carroburg Crimson on the armour plating around where the object source lighting (OSL or "glow" effect) got a little out of hand. I then worked the centres of each glowy area up to white.

It's fun when there is a contrast of surface textures or materials as well, and this model has this in his lustrous armour vs his matte skin and clothes.

The only other thing I did since last week's post was to paint the base rim Black. I used to use Abaddon Black for this, but in recent years I have started using Kimera's Black (which is an incredibly rich, smooth, luxurious black - it's not as durable, but I love the finish!)

One other thing to note about these pictures is that, starting with my atmospheric photos of Zombie Hulk from a couple weeks ago, I have been using a new lighting set-up. One of the lights that I had been using since the induction of the blog (9 and a half years ago) - which used to be my painting light before that - fell off the table and the bulb broke in such a way that I have been unable to repair.

So, where before I used two different lights: a soft warmer and a soft colder in line with each of my shoulders as I was in front of the model taking pictures, for these photos I only used one light...and...I kind of like it better!!

Using the two different "temperatures" of light gave some visual interest, but made balancing them in post production very difficult - it would especially blow out reds (as I have lamented in the past). I was worried that using just one light would leave too many shadows, but to my eye, the level is shadow in these images is just enough to add atmosphere without totally obscuring detail.

Thank you for joining me for these past few weeks with Marvel Zombicide.

I'll see you next week on The Art of Caesura!

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Watching: Million Dollar Secret - Netflix

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