One Year Later

So, 

Illness, work and nonsense aside I have finally found a decent daylight lamp (£20 from Argos - £40 from Amazon) and have managed to do some painting.

I'm very out of practise but I'm getting there- I think I just need to experiment with techniques more and find on that actually fits. Also find my wood elf champion with the bow...I don't know where he disappeared too.

Anyway without much further ado about nothing:

Infinity 

Slight difference in size there

Gotta have some Cryx.

Next time I'll actually write a blog post and give some detail.

Skarlock is a funny name isn't it?

So

I did do a blog post on this earlier in the week but it seems to have disappeared.

A Skarlock appears to be an attachment for a war caster which allows them to widen their spell casting range and, correct me if I'm wrong, cast two spell a turn. This would be the Cryx variety.

Studio paint jobs paint them as skeletal figures but..aren't they supposed to be cyber skeletons (ooo play some modded doom after this me thinks)? So I used a grey base followed by a wash of nuln oil followed by some bolt gun metal, another wash, celestia grey, wash, chain mail highlights.

Cloak is Cryx bane base over black base coat with tusgor fur as highlights. The sweeping soul is gnarl green followed by necrite green and Vallejo electric blue highlights. It's still WIP but ill get there.

Two for the price of one

Back to work we go, here we have a very fast paint of a defiler and night...thing. I forget the names of the bonejacks, tiny little boring things that they are.

God the snow went everywhere didn't it? Ah well I knocked these out quickly just to really check out the P3 paints and I have to say I really like them. They're more watered down than GW paints and obviously have different hues. To be honest, if I had enough of them I would probably use them instead.

So what exactly is her "great rack"

So

As things go it looks like I'm only going to be painting at the weekends or on high days and holidays, so here's this weekends star attraction. As promised the lady with the rack everyone covets: pSkarre

I hear she's the bomb.

So( I do like that word don't I?) here's the skinny. I took a look at the studio paint job and though I'd try my best and this is what you got.

Skin is a mixture of GW Rakath flesh and talarn flesh as base coat. Washes with carroburg crimson and then highlighted with Rakath flesh, talarn and pale wych flesh with a splash of carroburg crimson in the mix. Well you already know I'm useless at faces.

Eyes are white with a light wash of necrotite green so you can see the white iris underneath.

Cloak is a wet blend Of ( from the top) GW chaos black to dark shadow grey to Cryx bane base to dark angel green to gnarl green. Kinda worked.

Metal was a base of clestia grey follqes by boltgun metal with a highlight of chain mail and a blue wash. Blighted gold on the grips etc.

Hair was celestia grey over chaos black followed by a blue wash and glacial blue highlights with some red for the captain jack sparra' look.

Base was a custom resin with a very old school GW terracotta washed with army painter light tone followed by a liberal application of GW snow paint thing. Highly technical I'm sure you'll agree.

Side note: I paint on the 180s in differing colours depending on the faction:

Green and brown = Circle
Bright green and bronze = Cryx
Red and white = khador
Others to be confirmed though I think I'll change Cryx to blighted gold instead of bronze.


Second sub note: this painting was made possible by the delightful decoder ring theatre podcast, especially the tales of the red panda. Without them painting wouldn't be half as fun. Cheers.

Third sub note: about the horn...the second one disappeared as I opened the package. I looked for about 2o mins before deciding to model my own out of green stuff. I think it gives her a wee bit more character, don't you?

One day and one jubilee later....

Wow, what a party old Queenie put on tonight. Whew I'm exhausted.

Anyway here's old DJ done to just about a tabletop standard...if you squint...a lot.

I used my bronze effect explained in a previous post for the metal. For the panels I used incubi darkness blenders to dark angel green to warp stone green to moot green. Wet blending is a new thing to me so I'm just getting used to it, so excuse the mess.

Also half way through the painting I realised that the pelvis was on back to front....what are you gonna do? Anyway let me know any ideas and stuff I should practice.

Bronzed off

Here we have my most recent model, prime version deneghra or pDenny for short from the rather wonderful Warmachine game. Two things to note here:

First is that I painted her skin a la dead version of eDenny (if you have to ask) so that's why she's greyish with blue lips.

Second is that I'm working on a bronze green Cryx force. Hence the bronze armour. I've tried to give a weathered look by covering GW dwarf bronze with a very light thunder hawk blue was to give it a verdigris look. After that dried I put on a light splodge of scorched brown followed by a lighter brown made of Vallejo leather and shadow grey 1:1 highlight. Finally I used a very old GW yellow wash on the parts hit by lighting.

I hope it came out okay, I'll keep experimenting.