Kicking things off I wanted to get into Imperial Knight House Ohrlaac. I'm going to approach this from a painting perspective but if you want the house lore here is a link.
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/House_Orhlacc
As you can see they have a very distinctive purple and black scheme with some gold edging.
Figuring out the scheme was a trick because I wanted to do kind of a royal purple. Think a dark purple with hints of blue.
I ended up doing a mix of four GW paints to accomplish this:
-Kantor Blue
-Screamer Pink
-Genestealer Purple
-Naggaroth Night
all in equal parts.
Here's a quick photo of the results:
The Edging was done with Balthasar gold and the results are better than expected.
Next I started on the heraldry. I'm currently waiting on some custom decals for the house from Fallout Hobbies but they are taking way too long so I decided to try some freehand at least on the main armor panel.
Here is what is is supposed to look like:
Remember when you're doing freehand it is best to practice a bit with a piece of paper before you get started.
I knew that this would end up being done with a brush so I decided to pick up a brush pen to make sure the practice would directly result in what I wanted. It took a while but I got the idea at the very end (look at the bottom left design where I actually did it in the gold I would use on the model):
Then I actually applied it to the model:
I think the results worked out nicely especially with the black armor as I was able to clean up the lines a little with some black paint.
That's it for today. I know the post is long but I kind of like them that way. If you have any questions don't hesitate to leave a comment and I will see it. For tomorrow it's onto the rest of the knights... Five in total for this house.
Cheers
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