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Maneater of Zharr-Naggrund

"I worked for the evil stunties and all I got was this lousy armor!" I had this conversion shuffling in my closet for about 3-4 years and finally kicked myself to paint it. Mainly the reason was that I could practice my metal painting skill as I'm (was?) very poor at it.

Posted: 3 Nov 2011

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Thanks for the comments, folks! Craken, do you mean the mix for the rust? That rust was quite easy to achieve without any special techniques or pigments and paints. Actually I made it up just accidentally - and good accident it was. I started with VGC Gunmetal Metal basecoat (~GW Boltgun Metal) and then washed it with Devlan Mud and 1-2 times with Ogryn Flesh. After that I gave the places that would gather moisture a brisk washing of VGC Beasty Brown and then a Ogryn Flesh wash (don't let it pool too much!) to kill the heavy contrast between the metal and brown. Next I picked out the most rusted places with watered-down GW Vermin Brown. After that I drybrushed the surfaces with VGC Gunmetal Metal. Finally I just made some extreme highlighting and scratches with GW Mithril Silver. And lastly, if something didn't look "right", I just calmed it down with Ogryn Flesh or emphasized with watered-down GW Vermin Brown (eg. around bolts). Snow on the armor was just made with white wash.

8 Nov 2011

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