Wight Lord WIP

[ancalagon06]

I've been poking around various hobby shops in the houston area for a couple weeks, looking for a good wight lord on foot model. They don't seem to exist, the only one I found was a guy holding a banner and some absurd looking horns coming out of his head. What I did find was a Chaos Chosen champion model which fitted with my conception of what a wight lord should look like.

The first thing I had to do was fit him on a 20x20 base, since he came with a 25x25 base, which would screw up any rank-and-file grave guard unit he was in. I didn't have any 20x20 slotted bases handy, so using an x-acto knife, and many prayers to St. Jude for intercession so I wouldn't remove any digits later, I carved out a slot for him to slide into on his base.

I'd also bought some GG while I was at the store, and I decided to give him one of their heads. He also got a lovely shield to go with it, since he was going to be a sword+board kind of guy.

Before I started base coating him:

Sorry for the blurry shot.

I base coated everything but his obvious skeleton bits, the handle of his axe, and his belt, in chaos black. The above mentioned bits got coated with bestial brown.

I then took dwarven bronze and did a 2/3rd 1/3rd dilution with chaos black. I was going to initially use 1/2 1/2 mix, but the resulting pigment was almost black in color.

My dark bronze color was then applied to all his metal bits.

TO DO:
Decide what color scheme my army is going to have
Paint the cloth
Paint the leather
Paint the skele bits
Give him a sexy base

TO BE CONTINUED

 

[Nedar]

Looks great, might have to try this out. My GG were originally Chaos Warriors and my Wight was going to be the Crom model until the new stuff came out.

On a further note, anyone notice how impossibly hard it is to rank up any characters with the new RnF VC models? It's getting to be infuriating...

 

[ancalagon06]

Thanks for your reply.

I agree, I love the chaos warriors models. I'm waiting on the new mortals of chaos book before I start building that army, though.

I try and build units as a whole peice. Namely, all 20 of my GG with GW was built at once, along with this guy, and I was constantly checking to make sure they all ranked up. They pretty much rank up just fine, except my poor little standard bearer, Phil. Phil's arm keeps falling off, alas.

 

[ancalagon06]

I mixed about 75/25 boltmetal and chaos black, and used this to coat all of the exposed chainmail on the model. My thinking on this was: My wights and skeletons will all be bronze age-era corpses. Since my wight lord would obviously be the most important figure in their culture, he's also the only guy who could afford iron armor. I didn't want to make it too obvious, plus it would little weird to have an all shiny grey metal when all his followers were battered old bronze skeletons.

His belt knife also has iron trim, and he has an iron belt buckle.

Now, even though the bronze is not nearly as shiny as before, it's still too bright in my opinion. So, I mixed up brown ink, green ink, and blue ink in a 1:2:2 ratio, then added a dab of bestial brown and chaos black. Mixed it all up, added about a teaspoon worth of water to thin it, and I make a very, very nice looking wash. I'm not too sure the following photos do it justice:

Essentially, the resulting coloration is exactly the color of this old bronze cannon:

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Looks really good, are you going to lighten up the skull a little?

 

[ancalagon06]

yes, I'm going to give it a coat of bleached bone and a coat of skull white to make it look like a real skull.

 

[Gorknoth]

Personaly I think he is a bit to bulky for a wight lord.. if you have a chaos themed undead army or just like him that way, then sure.

Otherwise your work is good. nice swap looks like the head belongs to him, also nice painting..

 

[ancalagon06]

Gorknoth: I see what you're saying, so I ranked him up with my GG. I'm not too sure he looks too bulky compared to them in this shot, since his posing is much more open (arms spread wide and all that).

So I decided that the coloring on his bronze armor had turned too dark. Lovely genius that I am, I decided to give him a dry brush of dwarf bronze. Stupid.

His armor now essentially looks bright and shiny new. All the hard work I did with washes and base coating is gone. I'm going to try and salvage him today.

 

[The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy]

Might just steal that Idea! Nice one!

 

[Hoenheim]

I actually love the way he looks huge next to the other GG. It really sets him apart as a character, in addition to looking hard as nails.

The gold armour was a bit over the top though

 

[The Dark Sheep]

Oh no! What did you do to the poor wight!?! You'll have to fix it at once, before my undead eyes start crumbling (due to the brightness :grin.
If you ask me, metal (and especially golden metal) can never be too dark.

 

[ancalagon06]

yeah, I've re-washed him. he's much better now. except his shield fell off when he took a suicide dive off my desk. pictures to follow!