Introduction
This one is special for several reasons. First of all, it's a departure from everything I did until now and a deep dive into a modern setting. Second, it was a birthday gift to a good friend of mine.
Preparation: basing and pinning
I intended on a rough tile base, which I achieved by cutting up some cork squares and placing them on the base corner-to-corner.
Gluing a metal miniature to cork is a quest doomed to fail from the beginning, so I pinned the miniature.
Prime
In white, as I intend to do a fairly bright color scheme.
Clothing
Start with a Sombre Grey basecoat.
Wash in Drakenhof Nightshade for deep shadows and an overall tint not far away from the original basecoat.
Fairly broad highlights with Sombre Grey to reestablish the base tone.
Two more layers of finer highlights. First, mix 1:1 Sombre Grey and Wolf Grey. Then a very fine line highlight of Wolf Grey.
Base
Ghost Grey basecoat.
Wash in Seraphim Sepia.
Heavy drybrush with Ghost Grey.
Light drybrush with white.
Skin
Elf Skintone basecoat.
Wash with Reikland Fleshshade.
Broad highlights with Elf Skintone.
Highlight just the top right of the bald head with Pale Flesh.
Barely visible, but a fine line of white super highlight gives the impression that light shines on the bald head.
While we're at it, do the eyes in white.
Syringe
Basecoat the liquid in the syringe in Gory Red.
Wash in Carroburg Crimson to deepen the red.
Highlight 80% with Gory Red.
Then a fine highlight in the middle with Bloody Red.
Basecoat the handle and the needle in Gunmetal. Then a wash of Drakenhof Nightshade on both the metal and the white area. This leaves the impression of the cloth seen through the transparent syringe.
Highlight the metals in Chainmail Silver.
Finishing
Brown eyeballs.
I wasn't exactly happy with how the base turned out. After everything dried, the sepia was barely visible underneath, and it looked like a flat white surface. I applied black wash around the rim.
Then some more black wash in the recesses (both between the tiles and some pock marks on them) and to the left of the mini to give the vague impression of shadow. This plays out nicely, as the shadow is cast on the opposite side of the shining white highlight of the bald head.
Lastly, apply multiple layers of gloss varnish on the syringe and on the tile base to give the impression of shiny ceramics.
Finished!
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