Lamartes Showcase

Here's another showcase video, this time of Lamartes, guardian of the lost.  I painted this guy when he came out with the old codex, and really spent a lot of time on the details.  I think I like how the lenses in his eyes turned out the most.

Brother Lemartes Tutorial

Another special character that I painted a while ago, but am only now posting a video.  I used some of the techniques from white dwarf for the legion of the damned models for this guy.  Lots of fun, and I'm happy with how he turned out.

Lamartes done

After a busy month (of not painting) this guy is finally done. I had to put him on hold while I finished up some orks for Astronomi-con, but I was able to finish him up this week. I followed the painting guide for the Legion of the Damned master class in white dwarf 360, but used some reaper paints as well as GW ones. Specifically with the black armour, as I find reaper has a few more grey tones which saves me mixing too many paints. I have a hard time hitting the same colour twice when I mix, so this is great substitute. Also, my source for reaper paints (store.miniwargaming.com had a sale last week and I was able to get almost all the remaining paints in the reaper set (probably all the ones I want, but there are some coloured metallics left that I don't have).

I bought my Lamartes from the miniwargaming online store here

Pervious posts about Lamartes can be found here:
Larmartes wip (black armour)
Larmartes wip (base colours)

Anyway, here are some pics of Lamartes completed. Please feel free to post questions in the comments section.

Lamartes wip

I'm almost done this guy... probably one more night of work left. I've been using the Legion of the Damned masterclass article from White Dwarf for direction with some of the colours. That's one of the reasons that I love having the full GW paint set, I can try out all the wacky combinations they suggest. Anyway, here's a couple pictures of him.

Lamartes wip

Here's a couple pics of Lamartes that I'm working on in between ork units. My kommandos and a battle wagon are priority right now, but I think he will paint up quickly now that I have the black armour done. Well, I'll probably do another edge highlight, but the hard part is done.

I used Reaper pure black this time, and found it to be a little lighter (more of a grey) than GW's chaos black, but much flatter (matte). I think I like this, so I'm going to be swapping that out for Chaos black in many instances. I did a couple grey highlights then a wash of badab black to bring things down again, and I think it worked nicely.