HTP: Aleph

I've been working with the contrast paints alongside my traditional painting techniques to try them out and see what I can make of it. Here's some findings and recipes for the results when I choose to add to this force in the future. 

- Wraithbone primer over black zenithal. Magos purple is diluted with medium and water in a 1/1/1

- Not a fan of the wraithbone. it's spotty (it's a rattle can) but also it makes the models look like 90's computers. if you try to highlight with white it's too high a leap.  so reprimed black then white zenithal through my airbrush.

- repainted using inks. Not a fan of the golden because it's a bit glossy, but maybe that helped with the flow of the contrast. Mostly I wanted to make sure this layer was really thin so I didn't lose detail.

- Keeping with the idea that she's going to be primarily white, this time I painted her entire body with only the contrast medium. I loaded my brush with the diluted 1/1/1 magos purple and hit the details so the contrast could flow into the cracks still wet with medium. using all those water color painting skills here. around the armor plates where I wanted more depth to the purple I used undiluted magos purple and carefully lined the armor.

- Rudra gunbot with the thinned magos purple first, painting towards the bottom and shadows of the mini so the contrast pooled correctly.
- Iyanden yellow was next followed by blood angels red.  should have done the red first but it worked out.

- picked out the metal parts with leadbealcher, washed with space wolves grey, then highlighted with ironbreaker (pretty sure, or runefang silver)
- white armor edge highligted with white.
- purple is VMC 70.812 violet red, then magos purple over it, and repainted to highlight up to white just like I mix for marine lenses.

- The test piece for the metal recipe. I really enjoy the blues in the steel.

- gun is leadbealcher, then I put basilicanum grey over the 'brighter' metal parts.
- iron warriors metal went over the darker parts. and was washed with black templar.
- I later highlighted most of the barel and 'light' bits with ironbreaker, as well as edge highlighted the parts painted with iron warrior and BT.

- base is first the metal cross. it's iron warrior, then leadbelchear, finally iron breaker at the outsides. washed with basilicanum grey, then edge highligth with iron breaker.
- I filled in the little tech details of o-o and the rectangles with ironbreaker (maybe runefang steel) and then painted on the black.
- once dry I painted the o-o details with space wolves grey, and the rectangles with Talassar Blue.
- LOS line was painted with the silver vallejo aclohol paint and lightly glazed with blood angel red, not allowing pooling, just to tint it a fun red 'threat' line that's metallic too.

Progress keeps marching along.