Alright! These guys were 3/4s finished when I got inspired to paint/assemble again, so they were an obvious choice for finishing up. I’m VERY happy with how they turned out (although slightly embarrassed about the blurry guy on the left…bad photographer!). Went to GW tonight, almost had a game but there was a couple people there ahead of me, so I sat down, pulled out some models and a paintbrush and had at ’em. The result – finished kroxigors. Awesome. 🙂
Particularly pleased with their backs. Horns down the center are a simple Scorched Earth, Dessert Yellow, Bleached Bone combination, heavily watered to allow for decent blending (actually, now that I look again…these photos all suck…damnit >.<). The scales are my favourite part – again, really simple – Mechrite Red, Blood Red and Blazing Orange. My favourite thing is that I don’t think I’ve ever successfully done a very light edging of a strong highlight colour. Whenever I try, it usually ends up looking to strong, to thick, to blocky. But this time…oh this time, I took my time, had the right amount of water and it worked out wonderfully. You really should see them in person, they are amazing.
This gives me hope – it means that I should have two really amazing looking units, and two pretty good looking units and my army is just going to pop off the table with the strong reds/oranges against the cold gray. Very excited to start working on the next 10 Temple Guard (yes…I assembled another 10 of them…).
5 Comments
Muskie
March 4, 2011 at 2:41 pmYou play the fantasy now? I have an old Ork and Goblin army which is really going to end up all Goblins I’m going to finally finish this year, or at least 2000 points. I might eventually go higher but 2000 is my target number so I can use the gigantic mega spider.
What points value to people play at, what is the WCP tournament at?
How goes Astro prep?
Craig
March 4, 2011 at 5:14 pmI’ve played Fantasy MUCH longer and more regularly than I’ve played 40k :). I got back into 40k mainly because I met Duke and Derrick and they showed me that the game could be fun (I stopped playing at 3rd…and 4th and started enjoying it again at the end of 4th and 5th is a rad game now :)).
WCP was (is) 2250, most tournaments are around that area. Although for some reason this Throne of Skulls is 2000…no idea.
It goes..ok. But now I’m focused on the Lizards so I have about 13 models for Astro I need to do, and no time to give to them 🙂
Cindy
March 7, 2011 at 5:09 pmI always liked the paint job you did on these guys. I like the big guy with the mace.He looks snuggly. Its in his eyes. Like a gentle giant.
Craig
March 7, 2011 at 5:49 pmSnuggly?! Rawr! 🙂
Cindy
March 10, 2011 at 11:55 pmlol. Rwar can be snuggly too! Look at his eyes, he’s all “I don’t want to hit you with this, but I will if I have to. Instead why don’t you come over here and we’ll light a fire and cuddle under the beautiful streaks of magic soaring above our head.”