The Lion Progress 2nd Of August 21

 I have done a bit more on The Lion, the thigh shields are glued in place, both swords are being worked on, the head will be replaced by the helmet when the bits arrive.

Working on the scabbards currently.

This is roughed up with blu tac for now. 

Think I've done a good job of this. 

Silver Dart, The Iron Hide of Dakkara

 The snips I'd ordered finally arrived from Hong Kong *note to self, check sellers location before buying on ebay*.

I trimmed the mounting points down on this and re-fitted the magnets. The only thing left to do is touch up the shin plate and this is done.

I'm struggling a bit with motivation right now, as I was pysked up to finish The Lion, but am stuck waiting for the replacement part and just don't feel like starting anything else at this time.

One othee thing I have done is possibly come up with a plan for a colour scheme for the Necron army. I was chatting with the guy I know in Tokyo this morning and the idea came to me about the doing a grey ceramic colour scheme, but with the leaders being repaired /threaded with gold veins to show where they have been damaged. 

I might dig a spare Necron Lord out tomorrow and see how it looks. 

Because He"s Worth It.

 I used the contrast flesh paint on the unhelmeted Lion head, over an ushabati bone base coat.

The hair was given an Averland Sunset coat, a Reikland flesh wash, yriel yellow layer, then a flash git yellow layer.

I need to locate the yellow dry brush shade I have to finish the hair off.

Update on the replacement part;

I proved to Forge World that I had bought the mini official, from them and the replacement part, their wording, will be with me in up to 20 days, as it will be made to order.

The Lion, On Pause

 Forge World's The Lion was worked on yesterday and Saturday.

And while I was plodding on doing the fur trim that goes around the power pack, specifically when I was dry fitting it and after triple checking the instructions I realised that the lion's pelt murder mitten was missing, emailed Forge World last night, will check if there's a reply in an hour. 

This bit is missing the paw

Björn Of The Thousand Sons

 Leaving them alone now...

I had pulled the Thousand Sons dread out of the box it was in and decided to strip it and repaint it as I knew I could do a better job on it now.

After a false start where it got stripped again I started with an ushabati bone base coat, then stormhost silver, followed by a seraphim sepia wash. I'd also painted a test piece Intercessors at the same time. The original plan had been to try the Apothecary white contrast, which led to me redoing the Iron Warriors dread again, to see how that would look, as the test on the power pack had looked more metallic and a lot less white than I had hoped. I went and had a rethink and tried the thinned pallid wytch flesh again which worked a lot better with the metallic base. I went over that with a dry brush of Pallid Wytch Flesh and then a light dry brush of stormhost silver.

The yellow went over the ushabati bone base coat, I gave it an Averland Sunset base, then a Carroburg Crimson wash, a layer of yriel yellow, then a Fuegan Orange wash, then a highlight of flash git yellow.

The blue shoulder had a Thousand Sons blue base with a Seraphim sepia wash then went over that with a dry brush of thousand sons blue, then a highlight of Templar Guard blue.

Gold was a retributor gold base, a reikland flesh wash a highlight layer of the lighter gold, then an edge highlight with the stormhost silver.

The iron warriors Contemptor got done in nearly a day, stripped first thing, washed, dryed and primed, ushabati bone base coat, stormhost silver coat and a seraphim sepia wash before going over that with the Apothecary white contrast.

Today I've added some nuln oil wash in some areas and some temple guard blue on some of those lenses.

Surprise Dreadnought

As I said when I posted the Björn Intercessor the other day, I was going to see how the Apothecary white contrast looks over something that is supposed to be metal,also my living room smells like detol still.

Digging the Iron Warriors Contemptor out of last years Armies on Parade box I put it in some detol to strip first thing, after a wash off and Halfords grey plastic primer it got an ushabati bone base coat, a stormhost silver coat, followed by a seraphim sepia wash.

Next up was the Apothecary White contrast. I honestly think I'd use this if I was looking to do a metallic metal army. One thing I would consider is maybe drop the ushabati bone stage to save a bit of time.

I will go back and do the hazard stripes, most likely at the weekend now. 
 

Steps With Björn

 Since I got out of work yesterday I've put some hours in on these. The yellow was done yesterday.

I started out with an Averland Sunset base, on both the dread and Intercessor, I gave both a Carroburg Crimson wash. Once dry I gave both a layer of yriel yellow, then a wash of Fuegan Orange, this was topped off with a Flash Git yellow layer. 

The blue was started with a base of thousand sons blue, a wash of Seraphim Sepia. When that was dry they got a thin coat of thousand sons blue, then a highlight of temple guard blue. 

The basic point of this was to a better job than I had done the first time I painted this one. Already feel much better with how it's looking.