A Primus in the making

As I explained I am saving some money (sort of) by making some interim HQs. This post is for the Primus. The conversion work is explained in the HQ post. Here he is before priming

My other Genestealers have been primed with a black undercoat which is nice for my rubbish painting skills as it hides the mistakes. More recently I have been priming with zenerthal hightlighting on all my new minis. For the Genestealers cults yellows I should have been doing this from the start as it the black tends to show through the yellow making it green unless the paint is layered up many times making it look all think and gloppy. 

I know the picture above looks the same as the un primed picture but the real thing now has lots of shade that will help when the base colour goes on to give it some variation and make it pop so I can keep the paint nice and thin. Maybe I should just prime in grey seer or white? 

Interim base paint. Blurred picture yellow is not going on right. Sigh. 

After shading and a few highlights it's starting to come together. 

Any way Davon Krauss (Kill team manual again) is one of the Patriarch's right hand men (followers, cultists, spawn?). He has been given a small team of cultist to guard the security of the Patriarch's lair. His mission is to eliminate threats to the cause and runs as its chief enforcer to the cults more charismatic leaders.