Belisarius Cawl is the leader of my adeptus Mechanicus army.
My Army's color scheme is heavily inspired by fallout new vegas, I wanted to capture a more gritty, dirty and grimdark style.
The bases were made with Greenstuffworld Texture rollers, citadel texture paint and Greenstuffworld pigments.
I started by using Greenstuff and Greenstuffworld Texture Rollers "factory" and "Mesh" to create the base texture:
After letting it cure over night I cut off the overhanging greenstuff
and proceeded to Prime and paint the base Metal and added the Texture paint.
I used AK streaking grime to weather the metal parts and painted the martian soil with a wash and a 3 stage drybrush, I finished up the look by adding some Greenstuffworld red pigments to the edges of the martian soil to get a nice fading sand effect.
after assembling and priming the Miniature I basecoated it with Vallejo Gunmetal and basecoated the cloak parts with Rhinox hide
the next stage is painting the cloak, I used several different browns and beiges to stiple on the paint and create a natural weathered texture
in the second stage I washed the metal parts of the model in a mix of Nuln oil and agrax earthshade. I used contrast paints on the tubes and cables and also on the metal parts that will later be copper and brass.
in this last stage I picked out more details like the gauges, different tubes, coils and baubles, lenses.
I delibaretly used bright colors for this stage to add more contrast to the otherwise desaturated Colorscheme.
I also used different brighter metallics to add highlights to the metal parts.
I finished up the overall look by adding the same pigments I used on the base to the lower part of model to tie it to the base.
I painted the baserim black and let everything dry over night.
before taking the final pictures I used a matte varnish to seal in the pigments and to protect the paint.
after letting that dry I proceeded to take the final pictures.
I love it