Seigneur inquisiteur Hector Rex

While I was waiting for the primer to cure I thought about colour selection. He's going to be heading an army of Grey Knights, whose colours are obviously silver, gold and red. But if I just carried the colours across to this model, he would look like too much like a Grey Knight. So instead of using silver, I'll be making him stand out by using a warm white (based on Dheneb Stone) for his armour, with the details in gold. Red and silver will be used as well to help connect him to the army, and his retinue will use even more of the army colours to help bridge the colour gap - the idea being (in theory) if you put him in the middle of the army, surrounded by his retinue, and surround them with Grey Knights, there should be a transition between the 'hot spot' of the inquisitor and the rest of the army.

The other thing you'll notice about this model is that his armour and shield are covered in little nicks and scrapes, so I'm going to try for an 'aged' white - kind of like old porcelain, with a few stains here and there in the corners - I'll see how that goes.

So, what you see here is the end of the rough blocking process - three colours, Dheneb Stone, Iyanden Darksun (I like to base my golds with yellow) and Mithril Silver, with the whole lot washed with Devlan Mud. Now you can begin to see how much detail there is much more clearly:




I managed to spend a couple of hours on him today, so I've gone over all the gold parts with actual gold, and washed them with Gryphonne Sepia and Devlan Mud. I did this now to avoid trickiness after I've finished the surface of the armour itself. Then I started roughing out the highlighting using Dheneb Stone. I also used a little Sepia in the crevices here and there to make it look nice and dirty. I also haven't worried too much about the armour colours getting onto the gold, all that will be neatened up after the next stage.

I know it looks rough now, but trust me - the next set of highlights and blending will smooth it all out: