My Black Legion commander is complete. Abaddon is now ready to wreak carnage on the enemy. More pictures and my thoughts on this project after the jump.
I’m really happy with the choice of Space Wolf for the victim on the base. The reds, yellows and baby blue colours are featured on Abaddon one way or another. I used weathering powders on the space wolf to look like he’s covered in sand and dust after a vicious scrap with the Despoiler. Fresh blood was applied using Tamiya Clear Red (tutorial here). The blood actually ties the story together, Drach’nyen; Abaddon’s Daemon Weapon has decapitated a young blood claw, blood is spilling out of his neck onto the sand.
The Talon of Horus grasps the head before warpfire levitates and flenses the flesh leaving a bloodied skull to complete a gory sacrifice to the the Dark Gods. I painted the Daemon weapon to match the Daemon possessed armour of my Chosen models. I really like this incarnation of the sword.
The back view isn’t very exciting. I painted the model using mytutorial for Black Legion Chosen to ensure the colours matched. I deliberately didn’t use the cloak from the plastic Chaos Terminator Lord on this conversion because the original Abaddon sculpt doesn’t have a cape. The rocks on the base are made from cork placemats bought from ikea. You can see pictures of the conversion before I painted here.
I now have a HQ and a troops choice for my fledgling Chaos force (Chosen are troops if you take Abaddon). This army is a labour of love. I’m going to add to it slowly and take my time. For now it’s back to the Mega Force Challenge to paint more Necrons.
Space Wolves painting tut by Garfy please!!!
Most impressive work, amazed at how good it turned out. Not only a nice paintjob, but manages to capture that "something" which is not easily done.
Great job all the way through from concept to execution. Nice to see the whole process.
Wow Garfy, that is amazing. You continue to be a huge inspiration to me
Awesome work mate!
Amazing work! I really like the sword and the skull sacrifice. Really inspirational stuff!
The final product has nothing for me to say 'you could have added this' to. It's brilliant. I think you chose well with the space wolves colour personally. A darker marine wouldn't have been as good in my opinion.
I was previously going to mention the lack of blood, but thought I'd wait to see what you did next. Love the skull in the flames of his hand.
Damn I'm jealous. Wish I could do my models so good.
god damn, this needs to go into the salute painting comp. totally blown away by it.
i really didnt like the sculpt when it came out, classic pointing at random stuff pose. meh. but you have turned it around mate. truely the bastard of legend. lol
Really nice! Great work!
I wish i had an Abbadon like this one, the finished result is both inspiring and intimidating 🙂
The open talon of horus with the skull sacrifice makes your version of the despoiler so much more dynamic.
I cannot decide wheter I like the color scheme on the slain space marine… Whilst the contrast between good/evil is apparent I am stuck pondering if it steals attention from the main piece. Or im just angry Abbadon got the best of a space wolf 🙂
All in all its an awesome piece and I just want to say this place is a great place for inspiration…