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!

Over 1000 page views.....

Not totally sure who is viewing the blog but I was shocked at 1000 page views lol! Paul and Janice you have been checking up more than I thought. If you google search skarsnik and gobbla then hit the blog or discussions tab I'm near the top haha. I've arrived muahahahaha.. Not! Yes I plan to do a spot of painting tomorrow night!

Dark Elf Lord on Cold One - Basecoats pt3 | Wash Pt1

Done a bit more work tonight, Devlan mud wash with a black wash to come after that. Also did some more boltgun detail work.

Just wondering on the chainmail, I blobbed on some chainmail in the hopes a wash/drybrush would finish it off instead of just going to drybrush, could have been a mistake but can still reverse it!(second pic down)

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pics:

Dark Elf Lord on Cold One - Basecoats - Part2

I'm off tomorrow  today...soo thought I would do a spot of painting now. Just finished basecoating a large chunk of the steel...

take a look:

Dark Elf Lord on Cold One - Basecoats

Hello there,

Following the cold one hide basecoat. I have basecoated the gold, with brown and bronze, also I have basecoated the cloak/trim etc...

Very happy with smoothness for the mo, red is a lot darker in proper light, bronze a lot darker too :)

Next up is basecoating the steel armour.

Skink - Completed

Hi there,

Skink is finished \o/

I have made a start on the cold one by base coating with orkhide shade.

Skink finished.

I'll get some pics up when the base is finished but that's him done..... really enjoyed painting this one!

Probably make a start on next project tomorrow!

skink - staff - claws

Hello,

Will finish this tomorrow night for sure.

Quick explanation of things done tonight: basecoat and wash of claws done, orb done (quite proud of that, need to put gloss varnish on it) and staff done. Not totally sure I hit the nail on the head with the staff but............ pretty much made a pact not to go over and re-do anything.

Considering adding a little bit of a brighter colour on the end of the staff, its meant to be OSL............(first attempt, definitely will look good as verdigris for later models.)

Really just need to complete the claws and varnish the orb/do the base then its done!!

90% sure it will be the mounted dark elf who is next up, planning on some brass/gold armour and a red cloak? might abandon the brass idea depending on how brave I feel when I come to do it.

Some pics:

Skink - Cloak + details

Hello,

Only got the staff/orb/nails to do really on this guy.


made myself a palette from a white tile with some kitchen paper glued to the back....

the yellow is overexposed in the pics :( happy with the way it is turning out. especially happy with the green on the cloak!

Even managed to do a passable eye, dropped black ink in the socket, then painted the eyeball!

Teeth were kinda dry brushed bone, then painted white with a devlan mud wash to hide my messiness.

Skink - cloak - green - done

Hello,

Put an hour-ish in tonight. Alfred the great has set up his Burhs, knocking the vikings for six.

Oh and I did some painting. Finished the green bit on the cloak. My eyes are burning, got hardly any sleep last night!

It is goblin green, scorpion green and golden yellow mix :) (pics are finished product at top, then down stage by stage) top pic is bottom pic + wash or two of green.

cheers

Skin - Feather Cloak - Washes

Not a lot of work done so far but thought I might as well put an update in. Green ink wash with a bit of black in the recesses. Too tired to do a lot of painting, 4 hrs sleep grrr... dunno whats wrong with me, probs too much Tea!

cheers!

Skink - Feather cloak basecoats

Woohoo, the bit I was looking forward to!

Picked some nice basecoats to wash over then do something with. I was going to do the usual start dark and work up but the texture in the leaves is too intricate for that. Essentially doing a base - wash - drybrush job.
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Skink - Metal

Finished the metal. It is 50/50 scorched brown-shining gold then gold, then gold/mythril silver.


Cheeky gryphone wash as well, easiest big of the mini so far! :P

Forgot to take a pic at basecoat stage, shining gold and brown makes a cool mix.

Skink - Inside of cloak

Done the inside of the cloak and tidied up around the skin.

Might just go over some bits of the inside of the cloak tomorrow, overall very good though. happy. Going for the brown leaf kinda look......

Njal Base Shot

Just one picture :)