This one wasn't too bad to paint. It starts with a medium grey layer that gets stippled with black dots. I top it off with alternating black and blue-green washes. I then picked out various highlight colors along with the engines. To get the right balance for the Omega I did up a bunch of my own Shadow vessels for practice:
It was definitely a lot of fun to paint the shadows. It's always nice to do something simple yet straightforward.
I've had a couple of Samaritan soldiers sitting on my desk for months now. They only had a basecoat and a wash, and I kept telling myself I'd finish them up someday. With my commissions being done I decided to finally do so:
You'll notice the pool of blood on the one Samaritan's base. This is my first time using Game Workshop's Blood For the Blood God.
It certainly gives a good blood effect, and it can be a handy paint to have at hand if you're in a hurry. I'd rather use a 2-layer effect of light red over dark as I feel it achieves a richer look. The shiny effect can also be added with a paint-on gloss coat. I'll keep it around as it has its uses, but for my bases/blood effects I feel more comfortable doing my own.
With Adepticon just around the corner I'm starting to gear up to compete. Thankfully there's not a lot of models I need to get painted (most of them were done last year), but I have a few to show off:
I've gotten so accustomed to doing commissions that it feels weird to see my own models getting painted. I admit that I have a lot of fun painting my own models following a commission. Not painting my own stuff for a while because I have to be responsible has helped to keep me interested in painting over the past couple of years. I just have to figure out a good balance.
One last peak before I go. I started work on my Guild master Sonnia Creed, and it's easily one of the best faces I've done so far:
