Imperial Knight, day 19 - checks...

Hi all, no picture update tonight.
However in the comments on last night's update lé kouzes questions the yellow checks. And rightly so. Today my mind has been wondering about the checks. The yellow is so powerful. Probably too powerful.
So I am debating to go red and black or as suggested to paint over the yellow with a creamy white, or maybe just a greyish white...

So there it is; thinking cap on.
Which might mean to sit down and try it out later...

Imperial Knight, day 14 - more details...

More checks to be painted in and a bit of weathering on the metal parts.

Of other hobby-related work I picked up a parcel at the postoffice with a bottle of both matt and gloss varnish for the airbrush, and I also made it to the local hobby shop to get some DecalFix. I really look forward to getting some of those decals in place...

Imperial Knight, day 10 - yellow glaze

Not a lot done today unfortunately. I have hit a few days of X-mas-busy evenings.
But I have added two succesive yellow glazes to the shoulder pad.

  
Also, but without any pictures for proof, I have added a wash to parts of the main metallic body. Every time there is some paints left, of a chance while something is drying, I see if I can add a little weathering to some of the metal parts.

Imperial Knight, day 9 - bloking in checks

Shoulder checks and checks on the shield. I have also planned some checks on at least one knee. Anyway, for the shoulder I lightly drew some lines with a pencil and simply blocked in the black squares. It could probably be done rather neatly with thin strips of masking tape and the airbrush, but for now I just went with the brush. When the black was roughly in place, I went over the white squares and tried to make the whole pattern work. Same work on the shield. I will later go over the white with a yellow glaze but this is it for tonight.

Servo Skull Collector - finished

Finished the Servo Skull Collector tonight. A fun and hectic 3 hours painting session.

Yesterday I decided to persue a slightly monocrome look by aiming to work yellow into most parts of the model. Thus I had to change to shield which I had just enjoyed painting wiht the white/red pattern of checks... But I am quite pleased with the new look. I haven't painted a lots of models using a monocrome palette so this was both fun and challenging.

Paint phase #3 on the daemonhost

Another hour and a half of painting done and tonight I shot a picture of  the model so far:

For fun I made the pictures really big to show as much as possible. I have mainly been working on the shield with the orange and white checks pattern. Quite happy with the look so far, although the initial plan was actually to have the orange serve as a base for some red ink. But right now I really like the orange. Scrolls have also been give attention as has the hat which has been blocked in with Chaos black. It still needs a lot of weathering though. The horns were painted last last week and given a coat of varnish to protect the paint from going off when I handle the mini while painting...

Finally, a shot of the desk with the paint in use tonight. Two sessions more and I believe he is done - then I have the base to do, but I hope to have him done before X-mas.