On the Bench: Servo Skull Familiar

The model used was a servo skull from the plastic devastator kit. It was mounted on a 1/32 brass rod that has been drilled into a 1” round George Base. The model was primed black. After the primer dried, the base was flocked with three sizes of gravel from the GF9 urban basing kit. Once the glue for the flock had dried, sections of the skull and flock were given a thin coat of Vallejo white primer using a size 0 brush.

When it came to painting, the skull was done using the same palette range that I used on the skeleton models that I was painting in early 2008. Since the models in this project are not using metallics, I used a modified version of the grey palette from the GK terminator. I also used a slight modified palette for the gold sections.

Bone
Vallejo Desert Sand 4:1 (paint:thinner)
Vallejo Brown Ink: Vallejo Black Ink 8:1:8 (brown:black:thinner)
Vallejo Desert Sand 4:1 (paint:thinner)
Vallejo Desert Sand: Vallejo Bleached Bone 4:1:1:2 (desert brown:bleached bone:thinner:glaze)
Vallejo Desert Sand: Vallejo Bleached Bone 2:1:1:1 (desert brown:bleached bone:thinner:glaze)
Vallejo Desert Sand: Vallejo Bleached Bone 1:6:1:2 (desert brown:bleached bone:thinner:glaze)
Vallejo Bleached Bone:Skull White 6:1:1:2 (bleached bone:skull white:thinner:glaze)
Vallejo Bleached Bone:Skull White 3:1:1:1 (bleached bone:skull white:thinner:glaze)
Vallejo Bleached Bone:Skull White 2:1:1:1 (bleached bone:skull white:thinner:glaze)

Grey Sections
Vallejo Black Grey (70862)(3:1, paint:thinner) [Size 1 American Painter]
Black GW Wash
Black Grey (4:1, paint:thinner)
Black Grey/Vallejo London Grey (836) (2:2:1:1, black grey:london grey:thinner:glaze)
London Grey (4:1:1, london grey:thinner:glaze)
London Grey/Light Grey (70990) (4:1:1:1, london grey:light grey:thinner:glaze)

Blue Sections
Dark Blue (4:1:1, paint:thinner:glaze)
GW Blue Wash (straight) “Medium coverage”
Dark Blue (4:1:1, paint:thinner:glaze)Add 2 drops Skull White to prior mix.
Add 2 drops of Skull White to the prior mix.
Add 4 drops of Skull White to the prior mix
Eyes only - straight skull white as a single dot in each eye.

Golden Sections
Reaper Chestnut Gold (09073) (3:1, paint:thinner) [American Painter Brush 1] "Due to the model being primed black, I applied three thin layers to cover the black and get a brighter color."
Vallejo Brown Ink (72092) (straight) [American Painter Brush 00] "A little brown ink was applied to certain deep areas, like the connector, to give them a needed extra layer of depth."
Reaper Chestnut Gold (09073)/Palomino Gold (09074) (2:2:1:1, chestnut gold:palomino gold: thinner:glaze)
Palomino Gold (4:1, paint, thinner)
Palomino Gold/Buckskin Pale (09075) (2:2:1:1, palomino gold:buckskin pale:thinner:glaze)
Buckskin Pale (4:1, paint:thinner)

Base
Snakebite Leather (2:1, paint:thinner)
Septia GW Wash “Heavy coat”
Snakebite Leather (4:1, paint:thinner) “Medium drybrush”
Dark Sand (4:1, pain:thinner) “Light drybrush”