Marneus Calgar, hair, metal, armour, leather

Hello,

Marneus Is getting very close to completion.

todays done list:

• hair basecoat
• armour highlighted and completed.
• metal basecoated.
• leather completed.
• details made white.

to do:

• skin highlights
• gold highlights
• make the black black then highlight.
• highlight the green areas.
• hair highlights.
• eyepiece.
• BASE (looking forward to this.)

Oh and I have got a High Elves Warmaster army. I count it as a fair bit over 1.000 points.

• 3 units spearmen
• 3 units archers
• 1 unit chariots
• 1 unit bolt throwers
• silver helms
• the other cavalry
• general on dragon
• general on giant eagle
• general
• wizard
• hero
• 10 casualty markers.
• the rulebook
• giant eagles...

think thats about it... and for 40 quid!! 

I have started work on the spearmen... The previous owner has used a white base coat.... I don;t really like this but I dont seem to get any daylight hours to paint very often.  

The compromise is to black wash the miniatures then paint.  It might end up working really well as it adds shading and depth but doesnt dull the colours too much.....

Marneus Calgar Notes

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/tutorial-painting-ultramarines-stahly.html

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/tutorial-painting-ultramarine-armour.html

Asurmen blue + badab black wash

• Basecoat is a 50:50 mixture of Chaos black and regal blue
• Armor color is a 50:50 mixture of regal blue and ultramarines blue
• First highlight with pure ultramarine blue (thinned down with water)
• second highlight is a 50:50 mixture of ultramarines blue and space wolves grey

The result is a "flowing" color progress: chaos black<-> regal blue -> regal blue<->ultramarines blue->ultramarines blues->ultramarines blue<->space wovles grey.

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 skin - done

not touching it anymore... it is done! (the second or the second last are probably the most representative of what it actually looks like.

Overall it is OK, not exactly blowing myself away.

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