+ Painting Profugon Iratus of Legio Maximal +
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| + Profugon Iratus – eager to walk in defence of his homeworld. + |
+ One more evening of painting to go prior to Saturday's event, and priority has to go to the Salamanders' Land Raiders, which have lingered on the sidelines while I worked up this Reaver Titan. As you can see, it's at a playable stage, though I'm intending to add some markings, finishing details and banners prior to fielding it. +
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+ Colour scheme +
+ The background for the Vigilants (Legio Maximal) didn't include any notes on colour scheme, but since Maximal Fire has recently had a rebrand, I took the colours from their swanky new logo:
+ Having reserved black for metallics and the banners, the bulk of the armour plating was worked up in GW's Fire Dragon Bright and Grey Seer. I worked this up by mixing in Vallejo Cold White, and used Daler Rowney's FW white acrylic ink to thin the mix, which increases the fluidity without compromising the opacity – a handy shortcut for speed and smoothness. +
+ These work-in-progress shots show the plating, which was sprayed with Grey Seer. The skeleton underneath was worked up along the lines of my Iron Warrior infantry [+noosphericinloadlink embedded+] +
+ At this stage I was concentrating on getting a clean appearance, and edged the panels with Skrag brown (for the orange ones) and Vallejo Luftwaffe Uniform WWII (for the white ones). +
+ To hint at Maximal Fire's logo, I included a few zig-zag patterns and splits to hint at the lightning bolt in their logo. The grey panel lines look quite nice, I think, but I ultimately decided to do them brass/gold as you see below. +
+ This pict-capture also shows the painted base, with a couple of crates showing both the old Maximal Fire logo (as a nod to the past) and the Battle Bling logo. With the amount of sponsorship on this model, it feels a bit like an F1 car! +
+ Weaponry +
+ Weapons are a good place to add some contrasting spot colours. The WIP below shows the weapons in place, with areas picked out in white. Just look what a difference a spot of GW's Talassar Blue contrast paint makes to the appearance of the lasers on top, compared with the one on the arm. +
+ The right arm weapon is the plasma decimator [+noosphericexloadlink embedded+ from Battle Bling. It'll count as a Volcano cannon. Both arms are magnetised using Battle Bling's arm upgrades [+noosphericexloadlink embedded+], too. +
+ I had fun painting this, using the Daler-Rowney FW acrylic ink to good effect. The area was painted pink, and then repeated layers of diluted ink laid into the area, so that it flowed into the recesses and gave a reverse-highlight effect. The opacity of the inks helps the result to look particularly bright – and you'll now see why the armour plates retain a hint of grey: it's key that the brightest white is the supposedly glowing one. +
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+ What's left? +
+ I'd like to add an heraldic device to the top carapace – probably a hare to symbolise vigilance (and be a bit different to the millions of eagles on Imperial models). Along with that, I've got plans for a lighthouse, t-rex and some form of identifier for Nabad-Paleae, the Legion's forgeworld (the objective for the overall campaign at the weekend). I've also got plans for the aforementioned black banners: one each for the arms and one for between the legs. +
+... oh, and also to bring a bit of detail to the eyes. +
+ If you've got any suggestions for other markings – serious or in-jokey – feel free to let me know and I'll do my best to incorporate them! +
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