I continued to highlight up these areas by adding increasing amounts of White Scar to the Ushabti Bone, until I used pure White Scar on the extreme edges.

Metal

All areas of metal were base coated with Stormhost Silver, before being given a wash of Nuln Oil. Once Dry I then gave the metal areas a wash of Agrax Earthshade. Once this second was was dry I used Nihilakh Oxide in select areas of the metal.

Black

The areas of black in a lot of cases were done at the same time as the metal, as the pipes had a lot of exposed wiring and piping on them.

Flom the black undercoat and any tidying up done with Abaddon Black , I added increasing amounts of Ushabti Bone to highlight these areas, and in some cases uses a little dot or mark of pure Ushabti Bone on the extrme edges. Once dry I washed it all with Nuln Oil.

Flesh and Nurgling Skin

Mortarions face and the skin of the Nurglings were done in the same way. Starting with a base coat of Cadian Fleshtone they were then washed with Reikland Fleshshade.

Once dry I highlighted the skin with increasing amounts of Ushabti Bone added to the Cadian Fleshtone, and again in some cases I would go all the way up to pure Ushabti

On Mortairion’s face, I applied a very thinned down Khorne Red wash around the eye sockets and upper part of the nose. His eye balls were base coated with a mix of Cadian Fleshtone and Thunderhawk Blue before a White Scar dot was added.

Purple on the Wings

The purple on the wings was straight forward, staarting with a base coat of Xereus Purple, I then added increasing amounts of Ushabti to the Xereus to highlight. Getting brighter the closer you get to the tips.

Green

Apart from the wings, all green areas were done as follows. A base coat of Caliban Green was used, before Nuln oil was applied into the recesses to give it a dark shade.

To highlight, increasing amounts of Ushabti was added to the Caliban Green, and as with much of my highlights, in some areas pure Ushabti was used on extreme points and edges.

Wings

The green of the wings was done a bit differently to the rest of the green, but did follow a simialr pattern.

The base coat was two parts Caliban Green to one part Ushabti Bone, this was then shaded with a really thinned down Caliban Green which was placed down the edges of the fingers of wings and in the recesses. I then used a 50/50 mix of Caliban Green and Abaddon Black as a deeped shade, and then a final shade of pure Black in some of the bigger indentations of the wings.

Once all the shading weas done, I added increasing amounts of Ushabti to the base coat mix, hightlighting ridges, edges of the holes and the very edges of the wings. On the holes I held the wing as it would be on the model and only highlighted the lower edges, where the light would come down and hit it. This helped give the wings more of a 3d feel.

Cloth

The cloth was base coated with several thin coats of a 50/50 mix of White Scar and Ushabti Bone. This took a while to get smooth and clean, but was worth the effort.

The first shade was pure Bone which was then follwowed up with selected placing of Reikland Fleshshade.

Once all the shading was done, the cloth was highlighted with several layers of pure white, trying to get a smooth a finish as possible.

Warpflame

The areas of green warp flame were achieved by first washing the selected areas with Waywatcher Green , a second application of ink was done once the first layer was fully dry.

Next I used Warpstone Glow on the tips of the flames, this was applied thinly to help the transition of the lighter green for the ink washes. I then used Caliban Green towards the tips of the green and in some place used black on some of the more extreme tips.

Finally I went back over the flames with white on some of the more pronounced areas that werent tips of flame.

That pretty much covers all the areas of this massive model. I enjoyed painting it for the most part, and it didn’t take as long as I thought it would. Now I get to take him in to battle and watch him die repeatidly. I will be taking him to the Warhammer 40,000 GT Heat 4 in February, so if you’re up there come and say hi.

Now that I’ve finished my Death Guard army, which comes in at around 2500 points, I am moving on to new projects. First up I am going to take what I learnt at the Eavy Metal Masterclass and have a go at an Ultramarine Primaris, whilst building models for other projects, look out for tweets and Instagram posts of my progress.

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