During the painting tutorial day Wednesday, we discussed the Everchosen contest that is on the 27th July. I said I hadn’t planned on entering but was persuaded otherwise. I had a couple of option in my head. One was Ahriman floating about on a balewind vortex, the other was Abaddon. Now, Ahriman would have been too large for the category I want to enter, so Abaddon was the only remaining choice.
He is a wonderful miniature and I want to do him justice. I also want to learn new things and push myself for the contest. So I decided I was going to have to learn how to do Non-Metallic Metals. For those that don’t know, that is painting metal areas with non metal pigment. It is pretty hard to do.
I learned a lot about layering while I was painting the sword on Wednesday, and it was with that in mind I went about this task. I grabbed a test miniature, in this case a chaos space marine, and began looking at pictures on Pinterest. I don’t like watching videos, part of the fun for me is looking at a picture and figuring the rest out for myself.
I’m not secure enough in my knowledge to really share or offer tips on this, I have a lot to learn yet. However, I already learned a great deal and look forward to trying this again very soon.
Here are today’s attempts:
Heretic Deb! 
Looking good!
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Thank you! I have a lot to learn still, but it’s a good start.
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Nice first attempt, take you long to do?
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A couple of hours on each leg. There is a lot of layering back and forth to get it right, and I am still not sure I got it just yet!
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I’m no expert on it but I recon it looks good! But 2 hours each leg wow think I’ll keep clear of that.
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Yeah, and these are still not there yet! It’s a lengthy process, might get quicker when I get better at it though.
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