I did the last set of Lucifer's wings tonight, and the top section of his spear. All that's left is the bottom part of the spear.
I tried photographing him against one of my backdrops, and it helped. He's a little big for the backdrop, though. I have a couple bigger ones around somewhere that I'll have to see if I can find.
I'd planned to finish off the spear next, but I really wanted to see pieces coming together tonight. So instead, I did wings. Four of them are complete and glued in place. Two more wings to go, then the spear.
He's now big enough that getting pictures is a problem. Also, the Musou Black paint on the wings doesn't photograph well.
Finished up the skirt today - that was the rest of the shading, and then the highlights. I have to decide if it'll be better to do the spear or wings first, and I'm thinking spear.
Finished the sword, and did a first round of highlights on his skirt. So far, so good. I think I need to go back and deepen the shadows on his face, though. Now that there's color on the rest of him, the face looks washed out. I don't want to make him look craggy, but I think he needs more.
The gold on the sword is done. Next time I need to finish the black and the red gem. Then I'll move on to cleaning up the spots on the skirt where I've slopped other colors, and then shading and highlighting on it.
Finished the rope by his belt, and the gems. Not thrilled with the gems, but the rope is OK.
I did Lucifer's belt and armor straps, then got a base coat on the belt buckle and that rope thing. I'll need to finish the gold bits, then decide what to do with the sword. I will finish the skirt last. I'm starting to notice some rub off, which is not surprising, but tells me it definitely needs to be finished last.
Back to Lucifer tonight. I put highlights on the upper armor. Also base coated the jewels. Next will be jewels, belt, straps, and buckles. I think I need to fix the lighting for him. It's aimed low, for 32mm figures, which he is not. But that's why his midsection is lit and the shoulders are not. Also means that the armor highlights don't really show up at all.
I decided to take a break from Lucifer tonight, and I worked on some arena wall sections. I put a second coat of gray on these sections, and then did the under coat and base coat on the metal bits.
I think I have a plan for how I'm going to get this guy painted and put together. I'm going to get the base coat done on all sections, shade and highlight the banners and bronze medallions that should not be washed in the same colors I'm going to use for the stone.
The next part I'm debating about. The sections would need to be gap filled after they are glued together, so from that standpoint I should put it together, gap fill, re-base coat the joint, then wash. On the other hand, having everything put together will make some pretty hard to get areas for washing, so...maybe wash and finish the sections, put them together, then deal with the gaps and re-paint as needed.
For now I'm going to focus on getting everything base coated. The rest of the decisions can wait until that is done.
Finished basing the gold on Lucifer's upper body armor, shaded it, and highlighted it. I like parts of it, other parts not so much. Next will be highlights on the black armor parts.
