Death & Glory - Steel Legion Officer finished

It is a dark and rainy night. The whole battlefield is drowning in mudd. But the Orks do not care. Their crushing invasion is unbroken. The few remaining of the Steel Legion gather in the slipperly trenches for their last stand... Death & Glory! For the Emperor!

Finally, the first miniature after finishing my PhD! It was not easy during all the paper work, the defense and now the move to get this mini done and make pics.

Sorry for the not so great pics! Somehow my camera had severe problems with the light blue and the red. The sword comes out to bright. In reality there is some little lightning-like structure on the sword... Anyway on the pics it seems nicely glowing. :-) The red ist redder in reality...

I tried to give the Ork skin a more realistic look rather than the intense green that GW usually uses. Therefore I used mainly catachan and camo green and lightened with pink and bronze flesh. Hope you like it! Cheers!

P.S.: You can vote for this one on: http://www.coolminiornot.com/305459

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...