Kingdom Death: Storm Knight

Produced by: Kingdom Death

Find it: Ebay

Summary

Lot to unpack with this one. While I love the model, I don’t think I did it justice. Partially because the model is just so cool and I was trying some new things with some old things. But overall not bad. Wanted to see how I could do some fog or smoke and I think I found some really good paints to do it with (granted I already had them… I just… you know… Wasn’t sure how they would look for this particular application…).

Paints

Vellejo

Black Stonewall Gunmetal Silver Polished Gold Heavy Bluegrey Dead White Blue Ink Black Ink

Citidel

Agraxx Earthshade Balthasar Gold

Techniques

Steel Metal Base in Gunmetal Light shade of Black Ink Clean up with Gunmetal Highlight in Silver

Copper Metal Base in Balthasar Gold Shade with Agraxx Earthshade Clean up with Balthasar Gold Highlight in Polished Gold

Base Stonewall Grey Sigil is Black

Fog Base in Heavy Bluegrey Layer up to 2:1 Bluegrey:Dead White Highlight of 1:1



What I Learned/What I’d Do Differently

So to start with. As much as I love some of the metal looks, like the chain mail, I think this model really cemented that I should learn how to do non-metallic metals (NMM). In smaller amounts they look great and can really pop on a model but when it’s a good half of the model and all right next to each other, I don’t know. Just looks off.

Secondly, next time I’m doing blue lighting, I’m using my detail brush for the Dead White. I could fix it really easy on this model, but I kind of want this to stand as a reminder for Future Me. Future Me forgets a lot of things.

Lastly and what I think is most important, the fog could use some different tones. I like the colors of it, but I think I want to push the highlights more while blending the shadows more. I could either start off with a slightly lighter base tone, and then push the highlight with even more Dead White. Or I could darken up the middle ratio. Either one I think would do the trick.

Lastly, just like with me learning to do NMM I think this model made me decide to up my basing game. A model this cool needs something cool to stand on, and while I like the little sigil base this came with, I know I can do better. But even that won’t be enough. The rocks and turf that I’ve made on other models so far feel like they would be out of place for the Storm Knight. Maybe this will be just another great application for my new 3D printer 😀