Imperial Fist Sergeant

This is Sgt. Sienos of the Imperial Fists. I painted him up partially to give myself practice of painting yellows, and also as one of my friends is starting Imperial Fists, to help him out. Unfortunately I couldn't get a hold of a camera to do WIP shots, but here he is finished. Please comment and let me know your thoughts!

The yellow was done over a white spray, with three thinned coats of Iyanden Darksun. This was washed with multiple coats of Gryphonne Sepia, before being highlighted with light drybrushing of Iyanden Darksun, and varying mixes of Iyanden Darksun and Dheneb Stone (roughly 3:1, 2:1, 1:1, 1:2 but it wasn't exact). This was washed again with the sepia wash, and some Devlan Mud sparingly in recesses. Again this was highlighted up a little with the same mixes.

The black power fist was based in 2:1 Adeptus Battlegrey: Chaos Black. Then, I used Adeptus Battlegrey to highlight, before giving a heavy Badab Black wash. Edges were highlighted with the Battlegrey again to define them more. This was also applied to the chest Aquila, part of his backpack and his belt.

Painting A Soul Grinder Part 1: Torso

Finally had some time to get started on this beautiful model - I think it's very visually impressive, and it is probably my favourite current Chaos model (apart from maybe the Demon Prince, for pure customisation options). I decided to go for a dark green colour scheme for the torso, with silvery/bronze colours for the armour and some dark red plating here and there as a spot colour. In this post I will show you what I have done so far and what steps I took to get there. The torso isn't quite finished, I haven't done the face, the bone or the metal on it, but I am pretty happy with how the actual flesh has turned out.

First I basecoated the model in Chaos Black, and all the mechanical components got a layer of Boltgun Metal. I followed this with two slightly thined coats of Orkhide Shade from the foundation range, to give me a dark green base on the flesh.

After the Orkhide Shade and Boltgun basecoats - it just means
that the recesses will actually be a very dark green instead of pure black, which
I find does help it look better in the long run - black often looks too unnatural for me.