40k - Blood Angels Knights of Blood Librarian - Dark Vengeance - Finished

 

Here it is the final model.

Like the Captain model I am not happy with the picture quality. My camera is pretty old and my light setup may not be the best either, the reds are flat and you cant see the difference in the glazing on the armour.

In the plastic it looks really good and I love the metallic look over the flat blue colour normally done on Librarians.

Let me know what you guys think.


Vitor

40k - Blood Angels Knights of Blood Librarian - Dark Vengeance WIP

Just moved in and unpacked my hobby stuff and carved out a niche but not yet managed to get any hobby done yet...so close now.

This I believe is my last model to finish from the Dark Vengeance boxed set and it is a kit bash albeit a small change with only a shoulder pad and sword being replaced in conjunction with filing off all the Dark Angels icons.

I wanted to use my glazing technique to make the armour a metallic blue, rather than the traditional solid colour, from a silver base colour covered with multiple blue glazes. Above you can see the first very thin glaze that has hardly changed the silver. I have also pretty much done most of the work on the layers for the cloth and other elements of the armour.

Here is the next glaze and you can start to see the nice metallic look coming through. Now the tricky part begins because depending on how dark you want the armour to look depends on how thin the glaze needs to be. The other danger is that too much glaze can completely cover the silver underneath and ruin the effect.

I liked the final look although it is a tiny bit to dark in some places.

Next up the final pictures.


Vitor

Librarian Psychic Hood Conversion

The great piece of artwork above shows the idea very well, my thanks to the artist for using it but I don't know who they are.

Essentially I tried out a technique that Ron at 'From the Warp' blog demonstrated, see picture below.

The idea is simple, cut out two sections from a plain shoulder pad. 

When I tried it, I cut the two sections unevenly and ended up having to cut the sections off completely. After cutting, just file the edges smooth. 

I also used a small Aquila, cut in half, which I glued to the top section to add interest and draw the eye. 

It worked out well in the end so don’t worry if your cutting is not that accurate, give it a try.

 

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Blood Angels - Knights of Blood Librarian - Finished

I finished off the blue armour with a blue wash followed by highlights with Enchanted Blue. I didn't want to use the edge highlight method but rather a zenithal lighting method. The first attempt didn't really give me what I wanted so I had to add more wash to some areas and highlight again with darker shades of Enchanted Blue. The finished armour is still not the way I wanted it but it is acceptable.

The Tabard came out pretty well bearing in mind the cast was flawed to start with. Magnified in the picture you can see the flaws but on the model it is hardly noticeable.

The Psychic Hood worked out pretty well, so I am happy with that.

I like how the 'Force Stave' conversion from the Sanguinary Guard axe turned out as well.

Let me know what you think and stay tuned for the posts on how I made the 'Shoulder Pad Psychic Hood' and the greenstuff press mold of the Tabard

Vitor