Shipping is understandably a bit slow right now, so while I can’t finish Narses until a selection of blue paints arrive I can still plug away at the rest of his base coat. With a dash of good luck I’ll be able to book him in April rather than May.
My go-to Blood Angels accent color is gold, but I pay attention to the studio paint jobs and they often use other colors more often than gold (reserving the gold for veterans, special figures, etc.). I liked how that worked out on Squad Karios, on whom I used black for most accents, so where I’d normally have done all of Narses’ skulls, keys, and whatnot in gold I decided to follow the studio scheme and make them silver and white.
I’m not sure I’ll be able to pull it off, but I’m looking forward to attempting the 50/50 white/black paint job on the small Cog Mechanicum on Narses’ rear armor (currently just bare primer surrounded by red). It looks like a fun challenge.
That base is hellacool. Nice work. Also, that mini is nuts. I’ll have to show it to my wife and see if she can come up with a funny reason that guy got turned into a killer Tonka toy.
Thanks! I love doing bases. I can’t wait to build my Redemptor Dreadnought, because he’s on a 90mm (I think?) base and that is a HUGE canvas.
The old-school “refrigerator box of death” Dreads (like Narses) are one of my favorite things in 40k. So imposing!
I got it. He’s like a RoboCop trashman. Watch out!
Weirdly . . . yeah! He is an undead cyborg, just like RoboCop.