Victoria Miniatures Commissar progress showcase + paint guide
So when I got my Sledgehammer BFG kit (and some other things) I scored a commissar with it so you lucky lot get to see my unboxing, review and showcase (video is linked) and a showcase gallery showing the progress steps this model went under from primed model through to final details where I also share what I did for each step! so my plan with the model is to do a more classic red coat rather then the more common red, but it will be a darker red, i also am going to make it look very different from the priest model i just did recently
product shot:
primed stage: vallejo surface primer black (I don’t often spray paint stuff due to too strong winds in my area and my housemate being chemical sensitive so I chose to just continue priming with a brush)
base coat 1: okay so after priming it I base coated it in citadel chaos black before moving onto the true base coats
base coat 2: citadel steel legion drab on the coat and side trims of the hat
base coat 3: citadel steel legion drab mixed with citadel mophiston on a wet pallet with a very tiny almost dry dot of citadel naggaroth night, this is to provide a base for red paint on the coat, but damn do I love this colour it looks like really good leather, I’ll have to remember that for future with a rogue model for dnd
then I used that same red and brown on my pallet but pulled in more of the red to make deep red that i stippled onto the coat back I also started applying some of the trim for the collar which is going to be citadel kaldor blue as will the main uniform tunic
and started in the front of the model mixing in some black with the brown mix for the inside of the coat. I also applied some thinned down and remixed gw celestra gray to her legs and then attempted to put on gw rakarth flesh but for a layer of the coat that matched my regiment’s coats under their blue armour but it didn’t work so I painted gw kantor blue over it and into the gaps going up the undercoat
so yes I see the pistol is wonky but I am not phased because after I am done with the review it I’ll be replacing it with a gw bolt pistol left over from some kit or another later. I then proceeded to mix up a wash with some of the red then put it over the entire coat. for the scarf I used some thin mophiston as a glaze on it (it was too thin when I applied it so I refer as a glaze) then once it dried I applied a layer of citadel screemer pink to the scarf (so yes it looks like I am using all citadel paints but that isn’t going to be the case entirely)
next I touched up underneath the coat (the surface facing the base) and based her face with citadel rakarth flesh. so after I put down the base coat for the face and hair I went back and added a mix of citadel rakarth flesh and citadel steel legion drab to add some shadow
next to my major surprise my attempt at putting lipstick on her succeeded (unlike my priest who’s shouting face makes it hard to do her lips) and I managed to paint in the white of her eyes without issue (I’m not gonna try putting in pupils as it would be too hard for me right now and is un necessary given normal viewing distance) using thinned down citadel corax white. then went back in with rakarth to tidy up and then mixed some citadel troll slayer with rakarth to make a ginger for hair so I can do a ginger haired commissar. I also put down more mophiston on the belt then put down P3 Cygnus Yellow on the trim frill trim for scarf and applied some of the initial leather mix of gw steel legion drab mixed with citadel mophiston to do the gloves and I earlier applied black in the cuffs, I also touched up the flaps on either side of the coat front with mophison ahead of my painting the medals.
Now finally I pulled out the gold metallic (citadel retributor gold put (not spray) put onto paper that will absorb some of it and allows me to get some interesting tones with it when it splits and it also means my wet pallet doesn’t get contaminated (plus metalics seem to hate being thinned
next i did the silver layer using Vallejo model metallic air Aluminum and it’s really coming together now i also did a basic brown leather strap on the back of the coat using citadel steel legion drab, I also cleaned up the red sections of the hat before putting down the silver using both citidel mophiston and citidel khorne red
the main focus for the silver was the weapons, buttons center of the round medal, edges of the metal disk epaulets, buckle, hat icons and some of the gold trim on the coat (I’ll go back over them with retributor i just wanted to lighten the tone of the trim a little and make it brighter
next I touched up the gold trim and eppelet cords with retributor gold, then put a later of citidel balthasar gold on the pistol and on the raised parts on the sword, i then his the sword with the base of a lightening pattern with citidel talassar blue contrast paint that will form the base for lightening on the sword, i also painted talassar blue into the recesses of the pistol and it’s barrels
then I applied citidel ard coat to the hat and sword (probably a mistake to put it on the sword) and downed tools for the night as I had been working on this model for the better part of 10 hours and it was late so i downed tools to return to it the next day. here is a shot of it with the hat still wet
wow does this model look good. I feel kind of bad about my plan to remove the pistol and replace it with a gw one at this point but well these things happen.
now onto the base
– first I put down a layer of milliput which I then textured with a rolled up tinfoil
– second I applied some small rocks (taken from a clumping clay catlitter *note I am talking stuff I skimmed out of the bag and put into a hobby container before using the bag for my cats) and two pieces of broke stone shaped miliput that was left over from doing paved/cobble stone basing for a miniature
– then i pressed the miniature into the base to give her somewhere to stand
it should be noted i doubt i will use miliput on the bases of all my guard infantry as that is simply too much milliput for something that i could do with either hardware store product or glued down sand
and for painting the base here is what i did:
– primed with Vallejo primer then once that was dry i based it with black
– base coat order:
chaos black, then an all over layer of steel legion drab then i painted the raised areas with rakarth flesh and then picked out some rubble pieces with cadian fleshtone to add some terracotta elements to the base as if the commissar was standing amongst urban ruins
And so the model is done and here it is!
for those wanting to see the review on the model you can find the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrjLd3vHu4&ab_channel=SisterLilia%27sArmoury
hope you liked it and enjoyed the read and video. This model was awesome to paint now if I can just find the missing resin crew member of the bfg and bend the resin replacement boxes back into shape with hot water
Sister Lilia 
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