Touch Up and Helmets

Next up I cleaned up the washing and finished the helmets. The washes were rather easy just a coat (sometimes two) of watered down V Blood Red and that covered up the SWM Ruby ink rather nicely (as opposed to a minimum of 2, usually 3 to get clean cover over GW Devlan Mud) Then the helmets I just took out through all the steps; cleaned them up, then the two light oranges for highlights and a SWM red wash to tie it all together.

Also, I took some white enamel spray paint to a tissue box to act as a backdrop for pictures. I think the result turned out quite nice. Taking pictures of the helmet was tough though. There is a limit even for a macro lens. I also have to think about the lighting situation as well. Maybe order myself one of those little mini studios. Natural sunlight looks nice but then I can only take pictures at a very certain time of day when it is coming through the window and then only at certain angles cause it creates shadows.

On a side note, friggin' stoked about the new Chaos 'Dex. I don't think that I'll be playing a Chaos army but the book looks like it is going to be amazing! They are definitely taking them in a different direction aesthetically. With the addition of the warp-smith and the new constructs it feels less like just marines that are lost and more like they are doing their own thing in the Eye of Terror. I wonder how the daemon tie-ins are going to work though. I miss the old black chaos dex where daemons and marines were mixed in. It had such a solid chaos legion feel as well, less generic. Rumor has it you'll be able to make legion specific armies in this as well but it'll require taking a special character as an HQ. Friggin' hate special characters. I wish they would just make regular HQs super modifiable.

Anyway, here are the pics,

unhighlighted touched up marine body

finished helmet from side (still kind of blurry despite macro lens...)

top view of helmet

Hopefully I'll be able to start getting the bodies highlighted this weekend. Got all excited about the helmets and then realized they are the last thing that gets done. Can't put them on the models until the bodies arms and weapons are done to make sure they aren't looking off in some crazy direction....