Magma Axe

Quick mid-week post – I’ve been trying some more advanced stuff recently, and one of the things which caught my eye is the lightning-style power weapon effects. One of my friends at my local club has done it with great results, so I figured I’d give it a go as well.

Force weapon-y?

I’m a fan of simple, clean schemes, so I didn’t want to do lightning power weapons everywhere, but the force weapons on the two librarians I own seemed like a good place. The Deathwatch librarian above has a magma-style lightning axe, as befitting his Salamanders origin chapter.

I didn’t do much mixing of paints here – instead, I did thined layers and tried (with some success) to wet-blend from red through oranges and yellows to the white spots. Once everything had dried, I glazed it with the new GW yellow glaze to soften the edges where my blending was less than successful.

It doesn’t stand up to a close inspection very well – I’m way too lazy to do that kind of detail – but I think it looks effective. Just don’t look too closely please 😛

The rest of him isn’t done – I’m redoing all the deathwatch marines with the new washes to give them a little more detail, so right now most of him still is rather flat.

Big Axe

Emboldened by the previous success, I went ahead and did the terminator librarian’s converted axe as well. The rest of him is still in progress, but I’m pleased with how the green lightning effect came out on the rather small areas of the big axe (that eagle takes up a lot of space!).

One problem with slowly painting better – or with more detail – than I used to: the new models make my old models look bad. Hrm.