Monday, June 16, 2014

WIP: Space Marine Librarian


Work progressed quickly on my space marine librarian! Pics after the break.

Having finished my biovores and carnifexes, I set about working on my Librarian--  and he painted up much faster than I anticipated! I kit-bashed a new weapon and jump pack for him last week, and over a few hours this weekend, made rapid progress.

I primed the model black using vallejo polyurethane primer.


I then applied vallejo gory red to the robe areas.


Once the red base was applied, I airbrushed a mix of red and orange to create overall highlights, and then used a brush to apply shadow washes and detail highlights.

Here's the jump pack before I applied the washes and added detail highlighting. I kept the jump pack separate to make painting easier.


I simply need to finish the face and attach the jump pack, and he'll be ready to base. Definitely finishing this guy up this week.

-trip


3 comments:

  1. Did not expect that color inversion at all as I expected the typical red armor. Looks good though. And is probably a good call since now that I imagine it, a black hood over red armor would look pretty bad and mismatched.

    Will there be any blue on his gauntlet or shoulder, or will this be one of more hardcore FW-style chapters who don't really color code their librarians, chaplains, and apothecaries?

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    1. I've decided not to use any blue on his shoulder pauldrons, unlike the rest of my chapter. I wanted him to stand out from the rest of the army visually, but also have his coloring be an immediate signal that he's different, separate - not fully welcomed by the other marines because of his dangerous psychic powers.

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