This sculpt is from Satyr Studios and goes by the name of Dawn, and the sculpt clearly riffs on Brother Anderton/Longun from the Rogue Trader days. Wearing a Vetus pattern backpack, scaled down to 90 percent.
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt, highlighted with Kimera The White, shaded with Kimera Orange
White: Kimera The White
Black: Kimera Carbon Black, highlighted with The White
Red: Kimera The Red, highlighted with Cold Yellow, a touch of The White
Backpack lenses: Scale75 SART-74 Red Ink and SART-73 Yellow Ink
This Imperial Guard Commissar was a 1988 sculpt by Mark Copplestone, and goes by Commissar with Las-Gun (as does another one, but this chap is the one who isn’t pointing).
The catalogue page:
The mini:
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Blue: Scale75 Art Prussian Blue mixed with Kimera Carbon Black, highlighted by mixing in Kimera’s The White progressively. The same for the gun.
Lenses: Scale75 Art Cobalt Blue, shaded with Carbon Black, highlighted with The White
Skin: Kimera The Red, Cold Yellow, Carbon Black and The White all mixed together in varying amounts over and over again until I was less disappointed than when I started.
Yellow was Cold Yellow, shaded with The Red. Red is The Red, shaded with Carbon Black and highlighted with Cold Yellow.
This guy was part number 070145/10 and was part of the three Officers set 070145/3 in Rogue Trader days. He’s a Mark Copplestone sculpt and appears in the 1989 catalogues.
Unfortunately he became detached from his tab at some point. No date on the back of the tab. I had a go at a darker skin tone this time, working with Kimera’s Oxide Brown Dark which is PBr11 – an earth orange pigment – mixing in some Ultramarine which complements it very well – to get variation in tone and pull it down to a darker tone without needing to mix in Carbon Black for the most part – just a little around the eye socket and under the chin. For the skin highlights I initially tried mixing in The White but it turned out a lot more grey and desaturated than I wanted, so I mixed in a little bit of The Red in to bring some colour back in, which improved things. I also mixed in some The Red with the base skin colour for around the eyes, nose and mouth.
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt
Skin: Kimera Oxide Brown Dark, shaded with Ultramarine Blue, highlighted with The White semi-unsuccessfully. Further shading with Carbon Black. I mixed in The Red around the lips/nose/eyes.
Eyes: Mars Orange, Carbon Black for the pupil. The White mixed with Carbon Black for the eye and the attempt at an amber eye colour was Mars Orange.
Base: Kimera Red Oxide, drybrushed with Yellow Oxide then white, then Natural Soil from Soilworks for the pigment.
Green: Scale75 Art Spring Green, highlighted with Cold Yellow from Kimera, further highlight of The White. Carbon Black as the shade.
NMM Gold: Kimera Oxide Brown Dark, highlighted with Cold Yellow, further highlight of The White, slight glaze of Warm Yellow
Red: The Red, shaded with Carbon Black, highlighted with Cold Yellow, further highlight of The White
Bone: Honey Moon Yellow, tinted with The White, shaded with Oxide Brown Dark
Sword: Mars Orange and Scale75 Orange mixed together as the base, glazed up with just Orange and then Diarylide Yellow, then Cold Yellow, with edges of Orange + Oxide Brown Dark then just Oxide Brown Dark.
NMM Silver: Kimera Carbon Black, Scale75 Cobalt and Kimera The White.
