Steel Legion Officer - Painting

Today, I did a quick and relaxed after work & beer painting session focusing on the officer. But first, I used 2 minutes of my time for something that I wanted to do since a long while: I build a miniature cork & brush holder... ;-)

For this purpose, I used the old VOID Legonaries paper box... Ok now to the results of this evening:

 

As  you can see, I did not change  a lot the design of the previous owner of this mini.  However, I still basically repainted everything. For highlighting the black trench coat, I used dark see blue, which yields a much more interesting result than just using gray. 

Furthermore, I painted the energy sword with 5 layers of pure white because I want to do a glowing weapon effect...

Anyway, I want to nominate to paints for the COLORS OF THE EVENING: 

 

These two are really awesome recommondation from Jarhead's painting workshop -- MANY THANKS AGAIN, ROMAN!!! 

The Dark Sea Blue from Model Color (Vallejo) is becoming on of my most used paints because you can basically apply it as a shade for any color, always interesting. 

The other one is Glorious Gold from Game Color (Vallejo), the most brilliant gold I know, exactly as you imagine gold to be, as Hollywood does it! Just awesome, in particular in comparison to the crappy gold tones from GW, which I hated for so many years...

Ok enough bla bla for today. Tomorrow (if the gods want), I will apply the shading aka washes (and maybe some inks) to the officer in order to smooth everything nicely ;-) Finally, it will be time for the humming blue of the power weapon, so stay tuned!!!

 

The Steel Legion Officer

Hi out there,

after finally finishing my thesis manuscript and submitting it, I strongly feel like painting something again! Already in the final energy draining days of writing, I had the vision of this skull masked Leutenant of Amageddon, no idea why.... ;-)

Anyway, since I love this mini, I decided to do a proper socket for it with a little diorama but see yourelf...

This is how I got the Steel Legion officer from ebay: quite ok tabletop level...

 This will be the first socket for me! (After the workshop with Jarhead...). I found this piece outside our home center. A little big maybe ;-)

Thereforem I cut out a piece with a hand saw (pretty tough this piece of wood). Then I used some gipsum and some pieces to create the raw scene: I am imagining that the officer is fighting in the nasty trench war and has just killed one ugly ork (see below)

 The whole scene is supposed to be in knee-deep mudd. Hence, I created some:

Next time, I will show you the result after it completely dried, so stay tuned! ;-)

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Ok, I made some little progress: this is how it looks "mudded":

For the first time I have used real green stuff (not just the milliput stuff), and I made some guts ;-)

Time to start with the painting...

More soon...