Commander Dante finished

Here's some pics of my shiny new Commander Dante (to go with the Sanguinary guard). Used all the same methods of painting, just spent more time on the fine details. The base is made from a wine bottle cork and I just ran a wire up through it into his foot to make sure it didn't break.

When I finished the Sanguinary guard I gave them a matte spray finish, which made the gold quite dull. I went back and gave all the gold bits a coat future floor polish and everything is good again. This was a good, quick fix and I think it helped improve the look. I did the same for Dante (although I'm not sure if it was before or after these pics)

Sanguinary guard painting progress

Here's a couple pictures of the Sanguinary guard I'm working on. I'm doing Dante at the same time because I figure that he should have a similar look to him. I'm basically following the GW gold method that they have used in a few masterclass articles... ie, start with shining gold and schorched brown (50-50), shining gold highlight, then shining gold and mithril, shading, and some washes followed by mithril silver edge highlights. There's a good description on the Captail Sicarius article with pictures (GW white dwarf vault).

Here's what they look like with the base coat:







and after a shining gold drybrush: