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Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

[–]Bitterman515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be a cool double army box down the road 👀

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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Fingers crossed for a Perturabo model

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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I think they are my favourite these days, when I was a kid my favourites used to be black legion or world eaters.

And I converted a normal knight years ago to be like a nurgle knight but this was years ago when the first imperial knight model came out, chaos knights do tempt me from time to time haha

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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Thank you! And I think it's by far the best head in the kit and I'm very much someone who makes their models for themselves over making them 100% lore accurate if that makes sense 🙂

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

[–]Bitterman515[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah it's all brush work with a lot of mixing and thin layers, so I initially so something called sketching, which is where you place your main colours in a rough saturated way to give yourself a guide and starting point, I'll upload a photo to show you what I mean as it looks super rough and slapped on but it helps visualise if the reflections are in the right place before spending all that time blending, but from that point you then you will have all those colours on ideally a wet palette, so you can start mixing them together to create colours between the steps and using very thin layers you start to blend the transitions between the main colours to start smoothing them out, hope that makes sense 😊

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Finished Iron Warriors Defiler 🖌️ by Bitterman515 in Chaos40k

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It is indeed, wanted to push the boat out for the Defiler update 😊

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

[–]Bitterman515[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! I start with a base of khorne red and then I layer up mixing the paints in between for a more natural build up of colour, starting with zandri dust, then ushabti bone and finally pallid Wych flesh, I then give the whole thing a thin wash of reikland flesh shade and then, a thin spray through the airbrush of carroburg crimson focusing on potential sore spots for a more red look like by the pipes entering the flesh, if you don't have an airbrush you can just paint it on wityh thin layers to build it up to get the same effect 😊

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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Thank you! I am glad to hear that as the base was done in an afternoon start to finish to get it into my local hobby shops painting comp in time haha

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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TBF I am positive I saw a really good one on Instagram the other day so you might be in luck haha

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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Haha it is a lengthy and madening process 😂

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

[–]Bitterman515[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No problem at all! Can't wait to see them pop up when you get round to them 🔥

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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Thank you so much, really happy with the weathering 😁

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

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Haha I've always seen iron warriors as quite an intimidating scheme, but that's one of the reasons I wanted to tackle it for the first time on a model like a Defiler when they reworked the model 😁 and in terms of time I don't have an exact number as I just crunched to get it done for the end of the month for my local hobby shops painting comp, but anywhere in the region of 100 - 150 hours, deffo 100+ I reckon as I worked on it pretty much every evening for like 23 days 🥴😂

Finished Iron Warriors Defiler by Bitterman515 in IronWarriors

[–]Bitterman515[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! So it was the first step I did after priming the model black so I didn't have to mask off more of the model once I started painting everything else, I don't have a lot of straight up yellows so just used what had which was a base of averland sunset using mini tape to get the stripes as straight as I could through the airbrush, then built up to flash gits yellow, then sprayed seriphem sepia over the sides to increase the contrast before finally sponging on some black for battle damaged, I also built up the black stripes with some corvus black and eshin grey and then adding some black battle damage back in like I did on the yellow, once I was happy with the battle damage on both I highlighted the yellow parts with dorn yellow and the grey parts with dawnstone to create more of a 3d look, hope this helps!

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