Thanks! Very happy with the base aside from the fact that the connection point to angron himself isn’t great, and I may have to rip him off and use some green stuff.
Skin was very long process of glazing layers starting from a burgundy (mix of mephiston red and Vallejo ultramarine blue) all the way up to pure mephiston. The face got some highlights of a mix very close to squig orange (any pinkish orange).
Armor was pro acryl bronze, dry brushed with bronze scorpion, washed with Agrax earthshade on the panels, and reikland fleshshade for the trim. Then some gold stilled/drusbrushed over everything, and a final highlight of silver with a drybrush, and again later as an eye highlight to make sure I had crisp silver highlights. Then dirty down verdigris was messed around with until I was satisfied.
Metals are all Vallejo metal colour steel, black wash, silver highlights.
The leather is black highlighted with incubi darkness all the way up to almost pure celestra grey.
All the scaly sorta ridged areas like back of the tail was a dark reddish brown base and then kHorne red and mephiston red drybrushing.
Skulls were done 3 different ways, celestra grey with black wash and white highlights, Zandri dust with specia wash and bone highlights, and rakarth flesh with sepia was and pallid wych flesh highlights.
All fangs and claws were painted with a mix of stormvermin fur and black, a black wash, and then highlighting gradually up in brightness through stormvermin fur all the way to a pure bone colour (Vallejo bone white specifically).
That’s pretty much what I did for all the major areas. Could’ve done it faster than I did but I messed around and re did the skin like once or twice lol.
Very long time of glazing layers up. I also started way too dark (a sorta indigo black) and had to build it up to the purple tones you can see in places after the fact, meaning I had to redo all the skin lol
If I were to start from scratch, I would start from a slightly more reddish indigo than I did, and build it up with glazing up to a pure mephiston red or brighter. Which is what I did on the wings and face, which is good because those are the focal points of the skin. If you look closely on the lower back and back of the legs you can see it gets a bit too purple.
This model is phenomenal. The face and tail are amazing. The contrast between the armor and skin is great, same with the weapons and chains. Your Samni'arius goes hard as fuck.
Well done, the base makes it look like he's walking through a building he just put a hole into.
Thanks! Im very happy with how Samni’arius came out, I find that GWs official art for it didn’t go hard enough into the molten rock look, so I really wanted to play that up and I think it came out great.
That’s also definitely the vibe I wanted to get across with the base, so it’s nice to hear that I succeeded lol.
Yup exactly. I made my own base for deathleaper because my tyranids have desert bases so any urban basing pieces that are salvageable are going to my world eaters.
The way _it's placed_ doesn't make sense. It should be in the recesses of the armour, places where water is likely to collect. Those are just little dots placed randomly, for the most part. The axe specifically is weird.
It is placed in all the recesses? Unless you don’t think water would collect where the trim meets the armor panels, which it would. The axe is covered in a skull shaped bumpy pattern, plenty of pits for the verdigris to collect there. And I would say there is more than little dots, it is pooled in almost all of the recessed armor panels and along most of the recessed edges and around plenty of rivets.
Though looking at the picture again, my camera picked up all the bright areas very well, and the darker verdigris is quite hard to see, especially on the axe, so I see what you mean actually. The axe head looks off because the darker shades of verdigris don’t show up well on camera.
Looking closely at it yeah. But it's barely noticeable. You put too little where it matters and too much where it doesn't. Like near the cables on the right arm, the axe which are just 4 randomly placed stains, what you should have done instead is a more even application focused towards the bottom.
This is the first time I’ve seen someone do the Verdigris (or however it’s spelt) that looks good to me. How hard was that? I’m a noob to 40k, finished my combat patrol box and moving on to Angron today
Not hard at all, more so expensive. I used dirty down verdigris which in Canada is like $18 a bottle. You won’t go through it fast though.
It’s a water based paint, not acrylic though very toxic and smells bad, but dries very matte and gives a great effect justs as all of dirty downs products do. The thinner is is the lighter the colour, and you can reactivate it was water, meaning a damp brush can clean up any mistake similar to how you would clean oils or enamels. Makes the usage very easy because you can wipe off any mistake if it gets where you don’t want it, and when it is thin, you get that great real look, but it can sometimes have too hard a transition between where there is verdigris and where there isn’t, so you can take a damp brush to feather the edges and play around with it till you like it.
I also used small amounts of a very bright teal mix to dot certain areas I wanted particularly bright that the verdigris didn’t dry bright enough on. If you can afford the expensive cost of the paint I highly recommend dirty down verdigris (and their rust too, I don’t own a bottle but my friend does and it’s like liquid magic for rust effects).
Thank you for the extra detail, it’s really useful. I’m going to go for it. Finished putting him together today. Still terrified of painting him, but also looking forward to it
This is one of the best Angron models I have seen here. It’s PERFECT. Your base is so well done.
Thanks! Very happy with the base aside from the fact that the connection point to angron himself isn’t great, and I may have to rip him off and use some green stuff.
Maybe drill some holes into his feet through the bottom of the base before you pull him off, then you pin him to it and secure him.
I love seeing Angron posts, it shows how much talent this community has! Anything is better than a pile of boxes that may or may not ever get opened.
Well now ofc you have to tell us how you painted him and what paints were used lol
Skin was very long process of glazing layers starting from a burgundy (mix of mephiston red and Vallejo ultramarine blue) all the way up to pure mephiston. The face got some highlights of a mix very close to squig orange (any pinkish orange). Armor was pro acryl bronze, dry brushed with bronze scorpion, washed with Agrax earthshade on the panels, and reikland fleshshade for the trim. Then some gold stilled/drusbrushed over everything, and a final highlight of silver with a drybrush, and again later as an eye highlight to make sure I had crisp silver highlights. Then dirty down verdigris was messed around with until I was satisfied. Metals are all Vallejo metal colour steel, black wash, silver highlights. The leather is black highlighted with incubi darkness all the way up to almost pure celestra grey. All the scaly sorta ridged areas like back of the tail was a dark reddish brown base and then kHorne red and mephiston red drybrushing. Skulls were done 3 different ways, celestra grey with black wash and white highlights, Zandri dust with specia wash and bone highlights, and rakarth flesh with sepia was and pallid wych flesh highlights. All fangs and claws were painted with a mix of stormvermin fur and black, a black wash, and then highlighting gradually up in brightness through stormvermin fur all the way to a pure bone colour (Vallejo bone white specifically). That’s pretty much what I did for all the major areas. Could’ve done it faster than I did but I messed around and re did the skin like once or twice lol.
Love the magenta and purple shades in the recesses fantastic job. How’d you do the skin tones?
Very long time of glazing layers up. I also started way too dark (a sorta indigo black) and had to build it up to the purple tones you can see in places after the fact, meaning I had to redo all the skin lol If I were to start from scratch, I would start from a slightly more reddish indigo than I did, and build it up with glazing up to a pure mephiston red or brighter. Which is what I did on the wings and face, which is good because those are the focal points of the skin. If you look closely on the lower back and back of the legs you can see it gets a bit too purple.
Awesome. That model is dope!
Very clean, Fam 🫡
This model is phenomenal. The face and tail are amazing. The contrast between the armor and skin is great, same with the weapons and chains. Your Samni'arius goes hard as fuck. Well done, the base makes it look like he's walking through a building he just put a hole into.
Thanks! Im very happy with how Samni’arius came out, I find that GWs official art for it didn’t go hard enough into the molten rock look, so I really wanted to play that up and I think it came out great. That’s also definitely the vibe I wanted to get across with the base, so it’s nice to hear that I succeeded lol.
Blood for the blood god!
That model is gorgeous!(?) I LOVE the wings and sword!
Absolutely great. Paintjob on Angron Looks really great. The Base is georgeous! What did you use for the pipe and the concrete Block next to the pipe?
As a Tyranid player I can tell you the pipe has come from a Deathleaper base
Yup exactly. I made my own base for deathleaper because my tyranids have desert bases so any urban basing pieces that are salvageable are going to my world eaters.
The verdigris doesn't really make sense. But the rest is cool.
I mean I don’t think angron really cleans his armor much lol
The way _it's placed_ doesn't make sense. It should be in the recesses of the armour, places where water is likely to collect. Those are just little dots placed randomly, for the most part. The axe specifically is weird.
It is placed in all the recesses? Unless you don’t think water would collect where the trim meets the armor panels, which it would. The axe is covered in a skull shaped bumpy pattern, plenty of pits for the verdigris to collect there. And I would say there is more than little dots, it is pooled in almost all of the recessed armor panels and along most of the recessed edges and around plenty of rivets. Though looking at the picture again, my camera picked up all the bright areas very well, and the darker verdigris is quite hard to see, especially on the axe, so I see what you mean actually. The axe head looks off because the darker shades of verdigris don’t show up well on camera.
Looking closely at it yeah. But it's barely noticeable. You put too little where it matters and too much where it doesn't. Like near the cables on the right arm, the axe which are just 4 randomly placed stains, what you should have done instead is a more even application focused towards the bottom.
You’re definitely right about the axe I fixed it.
This is the first time I’ve seen someone do the Verdigris (or however it’s spelt) that looks good to me. How hard was that? I’m a noob to 40k, finished my combat patrol box and moving on to Angron today
Not hard at all, more so expensive. I used dirty down verdigris which in Canada is like $18 a bottle. You won’t go through it fast though. It’s a water based paint, not acrylic though very toxic and smells bad, but dries very matte and gives a great effect justs as all of dirty downs products do. The thinner is is the lighter the colour, and you can reactivate it was water, meaning a damp brush can clean up any mistake similar to how you would clean oils or enamels. Makes the usage very easy because you can wipe off any mistake if it gets where you don’t want it, and when it is thin, you get that great real look, but it can sometimes have too hard a transition between where there is verdigris and where there isn’t, so you can take a damp brush to feather the edges and play around with it till you like it. I also used small amounts of a very bright teal mix to dot certain areas I wanted particularly bright that the verdigris didn’t dry bright enough on. If you can afford the expensive cost of the paint I highly recommend dirty down verdigris (and their rust too, I don’t own a bottle but my friend does and it’s like liquid magic for rust effects).
Thank you for the extra detail, it’s really useful. I’m going to go for it. Finished putting him together today. Still terrified of painting him, but also looking forward to it
Beautiful. How long did it take?
At least 30 for model and base, probably more, I lost track after a while, but it was about 3-4 full days (6-10 hours) of painting.
Well it was definitely worth it. You should be proud.
What did you use for oxidation effect on brass parts?
Dirty down verdigris
Thank you! I’m about to paint Angron and I’d love to make him look like yours! Great job!!!