How to: Ogroid Myrmidon

After having a lot of fun with the Ogroid Thaumaturge (previous post), I immediately picked up the Ogroid Myrmidon.

The style I had in mind for this one, was more towards grimdark: much less vibrant colors and very atmospheric lighting.

Assembling and priming

After assembling the model, I glue it on a temporary base, one that is a bit smaller than the supplied one, this makes handling easier (💡).

Next step is a black primer — glossy this time. At this point, I didn’t know what would make an interesting lighting scheme. Only that I wanted to work with a warm light source and a cooler secondary light.
A glossy primer reflects more light, so helps on my next step: I picked two lights and started taking pictures of different angles of the model to explore what lighting would work.

Using real lights early on can be helpful defining where to put your light

After this exercise, I used some white ink in the airbrush to put this light scheme onto my model