Dark Apostle Erebus & Black Cardinal Kor Phaeron

Another assignment done, once more two overwhelmingly fine detailed models from Forgeworld. 

I admit that painting Erebus’ power armor was quite troubling. The scribbles on his armor were not put on the model but engraved. So where actually ink would be put on the armor, the scribbles were nothing but cavities. I hated it that way. 

The two douchebags responsible for Horus' corruption

The contrast of red and gold is pleasing to the eye. Therefore I tried to work with a dark but warm red and a bright but cold gold. The gold has its fair share of silver (Silver Air | Vallejo Model Air) to get a bright complexion, slightly washed with a blue-purple glaze (Naggaroth Night | Citadel & Kantor Blue | Citadel & Thinner Medium | Vallejo). Kor Phaeron’s armor, however, was supposed to be much warmer and much brighter. That’s why the gold has no parts of silver and was washed rather dark (Reikland Fleshshade | Citadel & Matt Black | Warpaints & Thinner Medium | Vallejo) and it’s much warmer.

The armor is both painted in layers, from the dark tone (Khorne Red | Citadel) up to the brightest (Evil Sunz Scarlet | Citadel). In all layers of red I mixed a single brush tip of dark grey (Mechanicus Standard Grey | Citadel) for reasons of opacity and flatness. 

On the base I started to work heavily relying on the overall praised pigments. Therefore it was plain grey (Mechanis Standard Grey | Citadel), washed in black (Nuln Oil | Citadel) and brown (Agrax Earthshade | Citadel) and drybrushed several times with grey and brighter paints (Rakarth Flesh | Citadel). Afterwards it was washed with pigments (a 1:1 mix of Dark Yellow Ochre & Dark Red Ochre | both Vallejo) very generously. After drying the base got drybrushed once more with Rakarth Flesh.

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Painting time (Erebus): approx. 8h
Painting time (Herold): approx. 7h
Main Techniques (both): mere blending, using washes for metal parts, slight wet in wet for the faces.

Both are commissions for [more than I ever expected].