Pride and hate. Abaddon VS. Loken

[batu]

breathtaking work mate!

 

How did you achieve the effect on Abbadon's sword ?

[the damned artificer]

Excellent work as always! Love the covers to tie in the bases to the main scene, love the luxurious felt bottom for the plinth, and of course the painting is superb - good luck in the competition!

Thanks mate :D

 

Love the gritty look of the base, very muddy/ dusty/ dirty.  Fine work.  Keep it going. 

 

Brother Sgt. Steine

Thanks, I really wanted something that actually looked like dusty rubble and dirty as it's supposed to look like a newly ruined place they're fighting :)

 

breathtaking work mate!

 

How did you achieve the effect on Abbadon's sword ?

Thanks mate :) 

The sword blade is based in Vallejo Model Air silver, then the first part of the mirror effect is done by masking of one side and airbrushing on Secret Weapon's Amethyst wash, followed by their blue black wash. Then the process is repeated till all the 4 halves on the blade and the edges are redefined with VMA silver :) Pretty simple, but really effective.

[batu]

Thanks for the info. The sword looks really nice.

[the damned artificer]

 

Here's a little further progress:

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/IMG_4369_zps0ba70e7b.jpg 

[the damned artificer]

I am delighted to say that the piece took gold in the duel category, and of the 5 entries I placed I took 4 golds and a bronze + overall winner! So I'm pretty happy.

 

Pics of the finished piece:

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/AbaddonVSLoken3_zps2cc9ac03.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/AbaddonVSLoken1_zps965ddebc.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/AbaddonVSLoken2_zpsb500fe18.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Basedetailruin_zpsa664bf90.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Abaddon_zps9fd781e4.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Abaddondetail_zpsa6704939.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Lokencape_zpsb9ab2d75.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Lokensideviews_zpsad051ad1.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Lokenfront_zpsf9308278.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/basedetailsewer_zps2feb3481.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/frontback_zps63d0bf75.jpg

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/bottomfelt_zpsad4f8bc2.jpg

 

And when I got home my FW stuff had landed, meaning a bodyguard for abby :D

[reckoning]

Congrats man! Glad this piece took gold for ya.

[Punk possum]

A justly deserved gold, and a clutch of others that I have no doubt are equally deserved. Well done and thank you for sharing.  

[Tyrannicide]

You won, huh? Imagine that. :D

 

The completed diorama is some super impressive work, man. Well done! Definitely one of my new favorites that will serve as plenty of inspiration. 

[AgnostosTheos]

Very well deserved ! Awesoe job !

[Blindhamster]

that is an incredible looking job!

[the damned artificer]

Thanks guys :D This has spawned off a small Justaerin squad that I'm working on, led by non other than Abaddon's second in command Falkus Kibre :P So stay tuned for that and a tutorial on how I painted the black armour :D

[Vorion]

I saw your diorama on GW website from the flickr pool. Beautiful work and congrats. 

[the damned artificer]

Thanks :) Hadn't seen that it made the flickr highlights :D 

[Grimdarkness]

looking good.

[the damned artificer]

As promised a while back here's a tutorial on how I painted the black on Abaddon.

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee354/SteffenSJensen/Abaddon%20and%20Loken/Sons%20of%20Horus/tutorial_black_soh_zpseb9ab952.jpg

 

Note that this is for a simulated high reflective black, and not everyone likes this particular look for black :)

 

I used VMA 71.005 intermediate blue, VMA 71.075 sand, VMC 70.950 black and Secret weapon washes W002 heavy body black.

 

1. Basecoat model VMC black.

 

2. First highlights are airbrushed on with Intermediate grey, making sure to focus on the area where the light would pool.

 

3. Next hightlight is 1/5 VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue. Again focus on where the light would pool, and make sure to leave part of the previous highlight.

 

4. Next highlight is roughly 2/5 VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue. By this stage you'll start to think "what am I doing, this doesn't look black at all..." Which is why step 5 is needed ;)

 

5.To re-define the black I use the wash from secret weapon which leaves a slightly shiny surface, which is really great, any black wash with some gloss varnish added should suffice though. Now you blend back the highlights to define them and make some contrast.

 

6. This is the final stage and also the detail stage of the model. Using a brush touch up any areas that needs to be a bit darker with the black wash, also use it to blackline all the rivets and panel lines. Then using a 1/1 mix of VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue highlight all the edges. If you prefer add a further highlight of 2/1 VMC sand to VMC intermediate blue to make the edges of the "light pools" stand out a bit more.

Add all other details like the red, gold and steel detail in this case. (the model isn't complete as I didn't have the time atm.)

 

Hope this is useful to some of you guys :)

[Tyrannicide]

Oh my God, it's beautiful. I hope to be able to use something similar when I get around to painting my Chaplain.

 

Thank you, sir. But enough of these traitors, let's see some more of Dorn's own! :tu: