WFB Chaos Warrior

A while ago, I thought about some chaos warriors and assembled them to see what they'd look like on a warhammer 40,000 circular base. This is the first of the chaos warriors painted, and I wanted in particular to show off the cape on the rear of the miniature.

The cape was basecoated in a cream colour and given several washes of good old devlan mud and chestnut colours. Highlighting was done with bleached bone to create lighter tones around the ripped segments of the cape and the folds. At the top of the cape, the fur (if indeed, it is fur?) was given almost a pure bleached bone highlight. Further highlighting was accomplished by mixing some skull which with the cream colour and applying it very lightly to the raised areas.

Finally, the lower portion of the cape - that bit that almost drags along the ground behind the chaos warrior was given another wash to suggest that it had been soiled by the ground and the warrior's own feet.
In contrast, the front of the warrior still needs a bit more work. The original idea was to have some Khornate paint scheme going here, but I've overdone the reds (especially their inking and washing) and I haven't yet highlighted it properly. Let's not even mention the horns on the helmet ... they need much more attention to get right.

Overall, this is one miniature that looks better from behind that from the front! But I've learnt a lot about how to shade and highlight capes from painting this miniature and may use that on a chaos terminator lord at a later date.