Originally I had a vision of all the sharks power weapons being white (as if made from sharks teeth? definitely not well thought out!) since I did the chainswords in a similar vein.
Here is the champion with the old white power sword. When I
updated my original captain to Kundera, I realized it was stupid and went with a different, brighter green than I use as the company colours. I really liked the result and so I pulled the champion out (I don't use the command squad much) to update his sword when I felt like something fun to do. I got about halfway through before I shelved it for something else - and it's been languishing in that state for several weeks.
I managed to get myself up to the local GW today for a couple games (1 win/1 loss - used my
Kundera "counts as" Khan for the first time) it meant I had to pack up the stuff I had been painting recently. When I had a chance to do a bit of painting but didn't have time to pull everything back out, I figured I would just try to finish off the command squad champions power sword - seeing more painted Space Sharks on the field has me debating a command squad again.
 |
| side view, top edge of sword |
 |
| front view, underside of sword |
I used a combination of washes and metallics for the "band" and I basically tried a NMM style slash. Then I blended the rest of the sword from the original green to white near the metallic edge of the band. They are positioned differently top compared to underside, I was going for the appearance of the electricity coursing up the blade. Not sure if I achieved this well, but that's ok - I like trying different methods for all my power weapons. It looks very "comic book" to me - from a few feet away. I debated using a wash of gryphonne sepia or thraka green to tie it together but I think it might ruin it. Thoughts?
 |
| close up of the sword |
Still need to give the gold a wash of ogryn flesh too - whoops!
