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Arcane Blue and Golds

Updating eStryker work with a couple WIP shots. The first shows my take on his Arcane Blue gear.  The swirling blues in the studio model are really cool but way beyond my skill level.  Instead I’ve gone for a single gradient from top to bottom on each of the tubes. The effect came out nice, almost like a liquid electrical-arcane engergies bottled up on his back.  I also laid down the golds since I was doing the back sections anyhow.

This shot also shows the base I created to replace the included epic base.  I had to bend Stryker’s front foot to line up with the angle of the ledge, but it was a fairly straight-forward mod/rebase.

Cape, brown electrical insulation and white armor completed. Blue armor based.

With further apologies regarding the quality of this iPhone pic: I moved on to painting the brown insulation padding under his cape, the cape and the armor, in that order.  The blue armor is only based, but the cape, insulated and white armor are complete. I noticed the studio model had his electrical padding a gray color, but I made it the same brown to match my Stormblades.  I also washed shaded the golds, working the other areas while waiting for the washes to dry.