Time for painting all the details. On the picture you can see the hose painted black. I wanted to make it little special, because there is or will be a lot of "steel" on the miniature. Therefore I went for drybrushing the hose with bronze colour.
"The devil is in the detail" grandma told me, and I like to make some tiny deviations to make the miniatures little special or details, that break the overal look and surprise the viewer.
Then I have painted the joints with steel, but only so, that the black undercoat shows in some receses. You can also see the brown undercoat of details and drybrushed hoses on the arms. On the picture on the left, you can see, that the terminators are still not glued together. Also you can see some more work on details - especially those "ropes" are based with very dark red brown, the stormbolters are painted with steel colour. On the autocannon I tried "heated metal" effect - going from steel, to bronze and to blue gunmetal in the end. This was first time I tried and I was happy about how it came out.
I also painted the scrolls and put some sepia wash over them. To help the wash settle in the right place, I let it dry on miniatures turned head down. As you will see on the next picture, the effect is nice.
Notice one thing: the skulls on terminator knees. They are painted with bone colour and after I was half way through, I´ve decided, that they are not standing out of the model enough, they are lost in the whole surface. You can see later, that I repainted them with red brass colour.
Talking about brass, now its time for Rokoko! Gold is coming! The GW terminators don´t wear too much (none at all?) gold but again, luckily there is artists freedom in painting and so much lore, pictures and videos showing space marines with so much gold on them, that I dont feel bad at all after I have painted my Deathwing with gold.
Notice the higlight of "ropes" made by lighter shade of red on the exposed places and further highlight of aquila chest symbol feathers with shinier green:
Next step was painting the tips of the feathers black. After all, the first and original members of Deathwing terminators were clearly based on north american indians (for those who dont know: check librarian Lucian a.k.a. Two heads talking and captain Ezekiel a.k.a. Cloud Runner). Making the feathers to resemble those of an american eagle was clear choice. On the next picture you can see the sergeant with painted eyes (violet), sword, symbol on the right leg and so on. On the second picture there is terminator with scrolls finished, skull on his knee painted with brassy colour and overal details kinda finished.
Here I show one more picture of sergeant with eyes finished and almost prepared for weathering. Also picture of the autocannon wielding terminator prepared for weathering:
Yeeeaaahhh... the weathering... Be kind guys, this was my like second serious attempt to do some weathering and if today I still have much to learn about it, that time I had almost no clue :-) Still, I think that in the end the overal look of the miniatures isn´t that bad.
Using "Spongebob" technique I started with some steel colour all over everything. Next step was covering the miniatures with gloss varnish before washing them. 
And next step is (surprise!) oil washing the terminators with burnt umber wash. I was quite heavy with the wash to turn the color down and make really dirty look. Of course I was cautious not to wash white, golden and red parts.
Well, it could have been worse... Because of I wanted to try it, after the wash was dry I covered the models with matt varnish. It gave the models very distinctive look and the armour looks "harder" then with satin one in my opinion. I still am not sure if I like it enough to use it again on final look, but at least it is a sample in my gallery and I see what it looks like. Well, here are the guys relaxing after matt varnish was apllied and one picture of matt varnished autocannon termie:
Next time on FFT painting:
Making the bases!
P.S.: tell me if you like the finish with matt varnish in the comments, I seriously would like to know your opinions on this.
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