Painting the KD:M Pinup Architect
Basecoating
When painting I prefer to basecoat the flesh areas first – although this miniature isn’t too complex in terms of sculpt, it can help when trying to figure out what’s happening.
The next step (and the hardest!) was to figure out a colour scheme. One of the other painters said, ‘We’ve got a red Architect and a blue Architect, why not go green?’ After hunting around a bit, I found a picture of a samurai that used really interesting colours (link to the image and artist: https://www.deviantart.com/freshpaint/art/Paizo-Male-Samurai-282060941).
I decided to pull the jade, the dark blue-green, and the gold for the miniature and basecoated in darker versions of those colours.
Flesh – Reaper’s Tanned Highlight
Top and Boots – Citadel’s Waaagh! Flesh
Cape and Boot Details – a mix of Waaagh! Flesh and Citadel’s Kantor Blue
Helmet – Citadel’s XV-88
Glove, Panties, and Socks – Citadel’s Kantor Blue
Feathers – Citadel’s Jokaero Orange
I briefly basecoated the lowermost boots in Citadel’s Rhinox Hide but the dark colour pulled the eye down, away from the majority of the mini. In the end, I painted over using Waaagh! Flesh again, but left a slight tint of the brown showing through to help distinguish between the sections.
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