Berserk Mutant

Aaahh mutants, you can never have too many! Remind me to do another mutant soon. I had been getting ideas from looking at many of Allan Carrasco's fantastic mutants and strange chaos conversions, and I had various interesting spare components lying around on my desk, and this is the result. I wanted to try a new metallics technique, similar to that used by Allan C and Cyril Abati, and this ended up being the prototype.

After base coating all the metal areas with mithril silver, I applied many successive layers of very thin and watery paint, starting with a quite light yellowish colour, then progressing through darker orange and red-brown until almost reaching black, and concentrating more and more on the recesses/shadowed parts as I went. The paint was so thin that it only showed up after 2 or 3 coats, so the colour gradually built up the more layers I used. At the end I went back and re-highlighted with mithril, and also did some random scratchy textures over the flatter areas - in hindsight this may have been a mistake, as areas left smooth generally look better with this technique.

Guild Artisan,
Sebastian.