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Warhammer.

Two armies painted by hand — the pale carapace of a hive fleet and the rusted rot of the Death Guard. Shot one model at a time, on black.

Daemon primarch, winged
Wings, censer, plague blade — the centrepiece of the collection.
Army one

Bone, chitin, and a cold violet ground.

Hive tyrant with scything talons
Warrior-form. Talons kept dark so the carapace stays the brightest thing on the model.
Psychic beast with teal brain plates
Teal brain plates — the one cool accent allowed into the scheme.

Every creature in the fleet uses the same three values of bone and the same violet base. Only the accent moves — teal here, pink there — so a shelf of them still reads as one organism.

Black background, one light. Everything the paint does has nowhere to hide.

Heavy bio-construct with teal bio-flame
Bio-flame glazed up from the inside out over five passes.
Winged tyranid over ruined terrain
Wing membranes thinned to translucency with yellow glazes.
Basing

The bases are half the picture: frozen violet grit, spent eggs, torn plating. They tell you where the fleet has already been without adding a single word.

Army two

Rust, rot, and a base that glows.

The opposite discipline: dirty, oxidised armour against a poisonous acid-green ground, so the eye is pulled down to the feet and back up through the copper.

Plague terminator with plasma weapon
Terminator — corroded copper trim, wet acid pooling.
Champion with scythe and bells
Champion — bells, teeth and a scythe longer than he is.
Walker with spiked launchers
Walker — the largest surface, so the most weathering.
Details

The model is won at 2 mm.

Macro — skull plates
Macro — teeth and bells
Macro — censer and chain

Eyes, edges and the two square millimetres of freehand are what people actually remember. Everything before them is preparation.

Index

Eight models, two schemes, one lamp.
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