Ansgar the Staller - The Face

Pretty happy with my first attempt at this scale. I feel it still needs some tinkering done but overall pretty good!

My first use of Vallejo paints as well. Love those dropper bottles!

Ansgar the Staller - The eyes

After doing a bit of research and watching/reading some tutorials on the web I had a bash at painting his eyes.

I am extremely happy with my first attempt at eyes on this scale. My first attempt at doing decent eyes on any scale really.

Some things I noted:

• Don't use white as the base coat, a bone colour or similar is best.
• Do wash that colour with a 10:1 ish crimson. Concentrate on the corners of the eyes.
• Do use black for the whole pupil.
• Paint over this with e.g. black or blue, then paint back in a pupil, I'm assuming darker colours of eyes are easier.
• A little touch of pure white as a reflection works as well.
• Do paint in the parts where the eyelid meets the eye. Brown for the bottom eyelid and black for the top.

All I really need to do now is put some gloss varnish on the eyes.

Some pictures (base and wash):

Some more almost finished article:

Notes on painting skin

A collection of stuff I have found on painting skin.

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/tutorial-human-skin.html

http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=3680

http://www.ageofstrife.com/topic7363-p79081.html

http://www.skankgame.com/Painting101.html

http://www.madponies.net/flesh.html

Will hopefully put some of this to use soon :)

My Arms hurt...

Had a good stab at checking all my paints. added water when necessary and putting in my little mixer balls if there was not already one present oh and shaking... a lot.... All of the paints have held up really well.  Games Workshop must really be making some progress with the paints.  I am sure they would have dried up a bit in this length of time in the past.

I have a fair few paints as you can see in the picture below :)

Going to take an inventory of all my stuff.  I forgot I have a whole drawer full of modelling stuff I had half forgotten about.

Oberyn Martell's Surcoat

Evening,

some work done on the cloak - not sure the front especially looks right, not enough depth, need to either deepen shadows or lighten the highlights?

looking over the pics again I think it might be a bit of both with more deepening of shadows on the front.

Orc Armour & Skaven basecoat

Started basecoating the orc armour, thin layer of metallic paint there... the metallic paints are so much better if applied slightly thinned, negates the need for drybrushing a lot of the time in my book.

Also a quick basecoat on the skaven dude. (picture below shows paints I plan to use for reference)

Knarloc green looks nothing like that pot through, dark pigment stuck on the sides no matter how much I shake it!

Felt great to paint something quickly, I think I got a pretty accurate basecoat on it as well.

I have also taken a picture of the light reflecting off the shoulders for reference later in highlighting.

Orc Skin, almost there

Quite a bit of work tonight on the skin of the Orc, I just need to wash it with brown and green, not sure if separate or all green then a targeted brown...

Looking much more dynamic now I reckon... lots of pictures.

good guide for painting eyes :http://cmdante.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/eyes-have-it-how-to-paint-eyes-on.html

Dark Elf on Cold One - more basecoats and washes

Just a short session today... not really in the mood...

I drybrushed the scales/body gnarloc green then did a thin green wash over the top.

I painted the underbelly calthan brown as well for some silly reason, I meant to do a brown-green like gretchin but I painted it brown!!! (easy fixed)

No wonder I was struggling to work out where scales end and hide starts if I was putting two such radically different colours next to each other. Knarloc and gretchin are much closer so wont be a prob.

So next update the scales will be the same but a lot more of the flesh will be gretchin... what a fanny!

some pics: you can see the brown right on to green is a baaad idea! at least the scales are getting some depth (check top pic)

also I let another person know the existence of this blog last night, woohoo!