Champion Of Nurgle Stage 3: Fly Head and Mutated Leg 2

With the basic colours in place it was time to tighten up the carapace edges and start highlighting. I re-lined the edges with black where needed and started to bring the top right corner edges up with very fine highlights of Azure mixed with consecutive larger amounts of white. This was a very precise job that I had to redo a few times on some of the plates - cursed bad eye sight again!

I then started to highlight the green part, again by adding Azure to the Emerald Green and using the Azure and white highlight mix as the final edge highlights.
To make sure the two colours would blend into each other nicely I kept topping up highlights and glazes of both colours (glazes were FW Emerald Green and Process Cyan respectively) until I felt I had reached the best balance between the two tones I was able to achieve. I'm not entirely happy with the end result, but then again I rarely am.

After I finished painting the head I immediately felt that perhaps painting it black would have been a better option, but I've done it now and I'll probably leave it as very often a paint job I'm initially not happy with grows on me over time. I am playing with picking up another one of these miniatures in the future and doing it in a different paint scheme, with a brown robe and black fly mutations.

With the carapace finished I painted the eyes Foundry Dusky Flesh and highlighted that with Bright Red Shade and Bright Red Light, then I glazed them with a few layers of very diluted Vallejo Game Color Red Ink (I couldn't find my FW Reds for some reason). It was the first time I had used any of their ink range and it needed a hefty amount of Gel Medium to take the gloss off. It's the only Vallejo ink I have but I'm reluctant to buy any more of it in the future. Disaster averted once again by using my trusty Golden Matte Gel Medium.

Now having "broken the back" of the miniature I went about painting the smaller details such as the tufts of fur, his tongue and the rope belt and pouch with a mix of black and brown ink, which is basically just my way of outlining these sections. I prefer using a mix of paint and ink to do this because the flow aids the process but you don't lose strength of pigment.

I painted some of these details and left others until after I had painted the axe which is the last major surface that still needed working on. In the meantime I had also started work on a scenic base for this little monster.