Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus (Part 3)

I am calling this one done. I probably could poke and peck at it a bit more but I'm satisfied with it enough to stop it here. 

In the last post I had yet to paint the armor. I used Kabalite Green on it. And I decided I was happy with just that color. 

The dragon familiar was painted almost totally  in Contrast Paints but I felt it needed a better highlight so I used a few standard paints on it to get it where I liked it. 

I was very happy with how the bones turned out. Skeleton Horde Contrast Paint has revolutionized how I paint bones going forward. I can use Ushabti Bone and Wraithbone to highlight over it and get a great result. 

And that's basically it. The only part of this I am less than happy about is her face, I think I needed to have thinned the painted I used to highlight it better, but I have decided to live with this for now. 

And that's my 2022 Inquisitor, I already have next year's model earmarked. With luck, we'll see you back here at that time! And hopefully we can get Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus into a game before then as well so she can truly earn her place in the Neverness Rogue Gallery.

As stated in the last update for the 2022 Inquisitional Conclave, if you can have your projects done and to me (neverness92@gmail.com) by September 3rd you'll get your miniatures into this year's Conclave (which will be either on the 4th, 5th or 6th of September depending on what's happening in my real life).

 

Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus (Part 2)

 Progress continues on Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus. Or my interpretation of her anyway. 

The black armor she wears was painted using Abaddon Black.. I am either going to paint her like the example GW uses on the packaging or using the scheme I use on my Dark Eldar. Either way,  I feel like her armor is based off of the Dark Eldar's  design, so I feel that's the direction to go in. I painted her Mohawk using a Magenta Ink that I have had since the '00s. It was a flip-tip lid and amazingly it hasn't dried up. Anyway, I thinned it out a bit and used it like a Contrast Paint to get the effect I wanted. Actually most of this model was painted in Contrast Paint ad this stage. The bones, including the wraithbone of the Shurikan Catapult, was painted using a Contrast Paint called Skeleton Horde. I absolutely LOVE this color! 

The dark areas of the cloak was painted using a thinned Dark Reaper. Then the whole cloak was washed with Space Wolves Grey Contrast Paint. It was an interesting look, but it's not quite how I wanted it to turn out, so I will be doing a bit more to work on this in the middle coat stage. 

The lil' dragon was painted using a Militarum Green and Warp Lightning Contrast Paints. It's an interesting effect so far. 

Progress shall continue soon! 

Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus (Part 1)

 It's August, which means it's time to engage in the annual tradition of painting an Inquisitor. This year I decided not to raid the archives to select one of my old museum-worthy miniatures to finally paint, but to go with one fairly new. And by new, I mean this decade.

Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus.

The miniature I selected was Lord Inquisitor Kyra Draxus. She came out in 2020 towards the end of Warhammer 40,000 8th edition as part of  the Psychic Awakening event. (By the way, despite owning a few of those books, what the heck was the ramifications of the Psychic Awakening to the 'plot' of the ongoing  Warhammer 40,000 narrative?)

The sprue and the  necessary construction guide.

Anyway, I had a version of this miniature in China cast. But I discovered that I already had it in plastic so I gave it to Da Masta Cheef. I was ignorant to the complexity of this miniature until I started to build it myself. It is unnecessarily complex for a monopose figure. Cheef vented about this on blog as he is building it for his August Inquisitor as well. 

Mostly built.

One change I decided to make was to add a Mohawk from the Necromunda Escher expansion pack. I had to trim off the attached scalp to better align it to her head, but with a little persistence I was able to make it work. 

The other part of the dragon. 

You might have noticed that the dragon wasn't fully assembled. That's because I think it's going to be a challenge to paint this model already without that thing's coiling tail being in the way. I primed the model this morning and I hope to make some progress on it by next week.