Sigismund, 1st Captain of the VIIth Legion

Hey guys! So I managed to get a good wee painting session in over the past 4 days and finished Sigismund for my 30k Imperial Fists army. I tried out a lot of new techniques (loads of WiP pics below), using James Wapple’s method of pre-shading his base coats with some highlights. While obviously taking longer (at least on my first try anyway!) with extra stages it did give much better blends on the yellow and face.

The side effect was quite surprising, I enjoyed painting this way a lot more. Sounds bizarre but taking longer and seeing the model reach a completed stage earlier (pre wash) really spurred me on and got me excited to finish the model. Normally I would hit a wall at the base coat stage and then equally feel like I had ruined a model straight after the wash (Dorian and I have this exact same syndrome lol). Now this may just be because I am coming off three back to back speed painting projects (Stormcasts, Necrons and terrain) but even so I can see me using the method on the rest of my imperial fists to really make the army as best as I can.

On a side note here are the steps for painting yellow and the emperor’s children pink:

Yellow:

Base Averland Sunset GW Yellow (ASY)

Layer 50:50 ASY/Flash Gits Yellow (FGY)

Layer 25:75 ASY/FGY

Wash Sepia full surface

Layer ASY

Layer 50:50 ASY/Flash Gits Yellow (FGY)

Layer 25:75 ASY/FGY

Layer FGY

Highlight 50:50  FGY/Vallejo Pale Yellow (VPY)

Highlight YPW

Highlight 50:50 YPW/White

Edge Highlight 25:75 YPW/White

Extreme Edge White

Glaze thinned GW Yellow full surface

Pink:

base of Vallejo magenta(VM)

Layer 75:25 (VM/white)

Layer 50:50 (VM/white)

Heavy Wash caroburg crimson

Layer VM

Layer 75:25 VM/White

Layer 50:50 VM/white

Highlight 25:75 VM/white

Extreme highlight 10:90 VM/white

Glaze GW Blue in recesses/shaded areas

Anyway let me know what you think guys, really happy with him, probably one of the best paint jobs I have ever done :). Still have his Scenic base to do so I can enter him into Mike’s Painting challenge!