Painting the sword: I painted the dull area with Vallejo Dark Grey and the sharp area with Vallejo Sky Grey. Then I highlighted the dull area by adding Vallejo Sky Grey little by little to Vallejo Dark Grey. The highlighted area are at the bottom and the top, leaving the middle area untouched. For the final highlight, I put Vallejo Flat Aluminium on the edges and the top curve of the sharp area.

Painting the hilts, rifle, hair and assembly to the base.: The hilts is painted red to accentuate the sword and made them stand out a bit from all the dark colors. I painted the end of the hilt with Gold NMM. The sword is the final part of the figure, so I glued the figure to the base and attached the rifle to his back. I want the rifle to stay black, yet I accidentally painted too much grey, so I had to put black washes to create the transition back to black. The end of the rifle (I don’t know what’s the name of it) is painted using Vallejo Black Brown and highlighted with Light Brown + Ivory mix for the highlight. The hair is black (Neo has black hair, so there!) With the same method of painting the Female Druid’s hair, I highlighted only the top part and the end of the hair with neutral grey.

Painting the insignia: I looked at VOID rule book for VASA (Where the Knight of Balance comes from) insignias to paint on his suit and coat. I want it to look like gold plated insignia to show that he’s an important person, so here’s the step by step painting simple insignias For the knee pads, I use a simple Alpha symbol – Triangle A. Started with Vallejo English Uniform (1st pic), Followed with Vallejo Green Ochre mix with Snakebite Leather (2nd pic) and finished with fine dot of Green Ochre mix with Ivory. For the eagle/falcon head insignia on the coat. Start with painting the silhouette of the falcon head with Vallejo English Uniform (1st pic), Then the 3D look is formed by using the overhead highlight method – in this case, the highlight (with Snakebite Leather and Vallejo Green Ochre) is pretty much just a lining on the top of the curve of the top and lower beak, Top of lower curve of the eye, and top curve of the feathers. The work is finalized with dots of Ivory + Green Ochre mix (3rd pic).

That’s it folks! A simple paint job with simple color scheme. Hopefully this article explains better than the first one. Critiques or what should I improve in the next article is greatly appreciated.