Wave Serpent - finished !

What a long strange trip it has been for this craft. Starting out based white for future tinting and being a generally light and even toxic colored it ended up being dark and menacing. This was a very good project to get the brush back in the grubby mitts and stop being a couch potato.

Attention grabbing picture

Link to the first part of how we get rid of white base with multitude of thin (and not so thin)

 layers of different paints

This time around I managed to use a decent piece for taking pictures, the are still shaky, but should get better along with the painting skills :)

We take of with finishing of white base elimination aka base coating

• Metallic parts are done with GW Leadbelcher. 
• Blacks are once more threated with thinned Abaddon Black.
• Reds get one more thin layer of Mephiston Red.
• Bony is of course Screaming Skull.

Getting the underbelly painted. Same black and metallic colors, as on the top side.

Shady shades time

• Screaming skull gets Seraphim Sepia
• Metallic parts get Vallejo model Wash for dark vehicles - Black (deluded almost by half with water, its extremely saturating and black straight out of the pot. I'd call it Nuln Oil concentrate with pulp.)
• Red doesn't get a shade :P Instead its layered with 50 / 30 / 20 (very rough estimate) mix of Vallejo Signal Red (which is actually lipstick pink with metallic parts), Evil Sun Scarlet and plain water.

I somewhat missed the stage here. But its all downfall from here.

• Reds get slightly lighter layers.
• Bony parts get layered with Ushabti Bone.
• Trying to clean a bit of previous mistakes, some better than others.

And then i did my usual late night painter trick - grabbed a glass of rum and forgot half the things I did.
Very Abaddon blackish mix with Ultuan gray was used as a highlight for black parts, and a light dry brush for the same parts.
Temple Guard Blue, as always, shined as a power pew pew highlight on engine intakes / exhausts, and I liked it so much that i could have gotten carried away and eventually done too much of it (and i still like it) :D
PS. extremely light Necron Compound drybrysh / edge highlight to imitate some cheap damage.

Well, its miles better then the white starter model :) Hope you liked the journey of this jinxy little devil and are up to more of half drunken painting reports.

PS. if anybody gives a s...t  theres a choice of whom i get to vandalize next:
- get down and dirty trying to pose and paint my first tau crisis suit (not gonna be your orange or reddish garden gnome)
or
- some fantasy savage waaaaagh orkz

Waiting to hear your comments !