Monday, 6 February 2012

Cloak complete - Skin almost...

Pretty much completed all the red cloak and trim, skin is at a pretty advanced stage as well.

I'm rubbish at skin, its a really hard thing to do because we are all so used to looking at it day in day out so can tell straight away what doesn't look real...

Was looking at the "color uncovered" free ipad app - it's really interesting.

I can see myself adding some browns/green/sandy colours to the hide as well just to make it look less static, probably more on the legs than anywhere else.

Also need to decide on colours for the shield, should probably match the cloak.... oh and thinking of adding in more gold to the armour plates along the cold one's back. Just lacking a bit of contrast between his armour and his mounts.
probably possibly I think...completed cloak...

some red-red added - rear view

red-red front view

slight bit of orange added in

skin

skin as it currently looks


Monday, 30 January 2012

Dark Elf - Cloak

15 days since last update..... not good............. "pish" in fact.

I like painting red, so I made it red! Kind of thought purple might be slightly better but I've painted a purple cloak before...

Not quite as RED as it looks in the pictures when seen in person. (looking at first pic here) Result first, stages below.

Hope this gives a good idea of the stage by stage buildup, see earlier posts for the basecoat colour.

Key is really thing paints and more paint on the brush (makes me want to buy some kolinsky sables to save re-dipping every square mm, or maybe i just need a bigger brush), the lighter the colour gets the thinner I like to make the paint as more of the previous layers show through, hence it gives you margin for error and a better looking finish.

It aint perfect but it does me. (scab red+ black, then scab red + red gore, then red gore + blood red for anyone interested :) )

Quite unforgiving flow on the cloak compared to a lot of other miniatures, still it cuts nicely across the drab cold one flesh.

Also loving my tidy skin basecoat work here!

also that HD price has gone from 60 ish quid to 109 quid on amazon, damn supply probs!!


end result


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Sunday, 15 January 2012

Leather, skin, belly, hair, hide

About 90 minutes or so this time around. Didn;t want to do any thing else as I'm starving and need to put dinner on!

also I have a sore knee and sore ankle, I blacked out while doing a pee on Saturday morning, third time thats happened! I went sideways this time tho not straight into the bog lol.!

Stuff done today:
  • skin - basecoat, dwarf skin and two washes.
  • leather straps, basecoat + wash
  • hide - black wash, dhened highlight.
  • belly - devlan wash - highlight with dheneb added to the green colour, then pure dheneb. then a wash (looks alright!)
  • black wash in the eye sockets of the mount.
Basically I am still beating around the bush, next thing for sure is all the cloth on the model and probably finish the Elf skin.

Just explaining things to a certain someone because I forgot to show my stuff when they were round last. Oh well i'll bore that person on Tuesday if I'm allowed!!!


Oh here is a picture of my bedroom, this, as they say, is where the magic happens! I also paint there sometimes.... Kidding of course, unfortunately its only painting and sleeping that goes in in here.










These are the brushes I''ve been using. Fat one on the right is the wash brush, has a big "belly" to carry a lot of ink wash. left of that is my scruffy one used for moving paint from pot to palette and mixing. left again that is the drybrush, used for drybrushing. then there are the fine detail, standard and detail brushes :)

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Dark Elf Lord - Cold One - Continued

An hour or so's work tonight.

I fixed the mistake with the brown, and washed it, still got to highlight that up and complete.

The hide has had a few stages of highlighting done, using dheneb stone to lighten the shade. Then washed with green/brown to remove the chalky look and blend the colours.

Also put up a picture of my colour palette over the last few sessions! :)

Pics heavy!












Friday, 30 December 2011

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!




Wednesday, 28 December 2011

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!

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

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)

soundtrack: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beyond-magnetic-ep/id485472347

pics:






Sunday, 11 December 2011

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.









Thursday, 8 December 2011

Skink - Completed

Hi there,

Skink is finished \o/

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