I haven’t painted Lizards in a long while. I could say that my Old Blood was the actual last one, but I don’t know if he counts, just because volume of models is an important factor.
Here’s a pile of skinks. 24 of them. My god that’s a lot of models.
I used the P3 White Primer on them, because I was near a shop that sold it and needed more primer. I don’t know if it’s the primer, or my application of it, but they are decidedly fuzzy in places. Disappointment.
For the basecoat, it’s just Codex Grey, Mephiston Red (definitely my favourite colour now), Dwarf Bronze, Snakebite Leather and Ushapti Bone. I slapped it on, and once again felt miserable about myself. Logic dictates that one day I’ll realize that they’ll look much better after washing, glazing, shading and highlighting, but in the meantime I just keep making myself feel bad about my basecoats.
I don’t even know what’s going on with this model anymore. I think it’s going to be cool when I’m done, but right now I’m torn between thinking it’s the worst thing I’ve ever painted, and loving the shit out of it because it’s the worst thing I’ve ever painted. It’s not done. It’s still ok.
I started with Boltgun Metal over just about everything. After the Rail Golem skin, I wanted to start darker so I didn’t have to bring it down as much. I did a layer of Guilliman Blue along the bottom edges of things, and crevasses, Lamenters Yellow at the top of edges and…well…it looked like ass. So I went and did some edges with the Boltgun, and Bloodletter in the middle of things and Soft Body Black in crevasses and…well…it’s a mess. But from a distance, it might be a good looking mess. A little purple. Or blue. Or…red. Only Tzeentch knows. Or Khorne. Maybe sleep will help it out. My sleep. Of course.
The gun is obviously a giant fleshy thing. If I’m lucky, when all is said and done, no one will look to closely at the metal. Giant fleshy gun calls to you…
This is my priority this week. Get this done, and the rest of life is easy sailing.
Miranda is out of town this week, so instead of having a nice breakfast with her in the morning, I’ve been painting.
After I finished building him, this guy looked a little silly. I mean, he’s meant to look like a decent size on top of the new carnosaur. But whatever, just because his tail is the same size as his mounts doesn’t mean anything…I built him as Kroq-gar, because if you can put a giant halberd and alien robotic arm on your dinosaur, you should do so.
It turns out that my last cold one hero, I failed at documenting so I had to figure this paint scheme out from the model. Then it turned out that my case was locked and that the keys were over there. So I grabbed another cav from a nearby case and went to town.
I’m using the same base painting technique as the Horror units, because I believe that when I do it right, it will look black, without actually being black. I’m still going to fill the crevasses with orange and yellow, but the rock starts with Sotek Green.
I bought a bunch of new paints to replace drying ones last week, and picked up Steel Legion Drab, which I used on the plants. They look good and dying already!
The cold one has Shadow Grey skin, Ushapti Bone chest, scales and claws. All of the gold is Dwarf Bronze. The chest on my test model goes to something like Fiery Orange and then back to the Bone, but I think I should pull out my BSB to see what I did there – probably not stark orange and bone. 🙂
The dude on top is Mephiston Red scales (I love that colour), Codex Grey skin, Ushapti Bone spikes and claws and helmet, and Dwarf Bronze doodads.
I painted the tip of the halberd in Ice Blue, and I’m hoping to have some sort of OSL crackling energy thing going on there. The Hand is Codex Grey. I was thinking of trying a NMM, but we’ll see if I have the patience to figure that out this weekend.
Tall Paul made fun of my Escalation League army at CHOP Sunday August, questioning whether I owed everyone in the league a beer since I hadn’t finished my models. I replied that each of my models had 3 colours, to which he said “what, blue, blue, and blue?” I was irritated, but he was right. My horrors and flamers only barely got more than blue on them recently (I was counting the base as a colour!)
My 1000pt models now have 5 colours on them (and the daemon prince could almost count as “finished”, if I could find his blasted arm!).
I’ve finished the base coat for my stegadon. This was a simple matter of repeating the same process as I did for the grey, but for some other colours – blood red, ushapti bone, snakebite leather and dwarf bronze.
At this stage of the process, I start to think that I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve just taken a $70-80 model (I don’t recall) and coated it in a ridiculous colour which is completely different from how I’ve worked for the last 10 years. That other process started with black and worked up. This process starts with white, puts a bright base on, then washes down and then builds up again on the raised areas.
If I keep this up, you’ll see this whole thing, and cringe with me as I do it. My next post in particular is going to be super embarrassing.
