Rail Crew – MOAR PAINT!

I made some fantastic progress on the Rail Crew last night.

This is awesome, because this project was looming. LOOMING!!

Bases:

• Black edges, because it’s classy.
• Rhinox Hide for the dirt. This is waaaay to red. I didn’t realize. It’s really really red.
  • Drybrushed a Graveyard Earth over it. Still pretty red.
  • Drybrushed a Fenris Grey/P3 Rucksack Tan combo over it, less red, but now to grey. >.<
• Rail lines are Mithril Silver and Badab Black. Based on feedback from my last post, I might try to weather the tracks with some of the Secret Weapon powders, we’ll see how I feel.
• Vomit Brown to start the railway ties.
  • This is a pretty bright colour! I wanted a different brown, but this may have been to light.
  • I think it worked out ok in the end because of a heavy application of liquid skill–Devlan Mud.

Skin:

I suck so hard at skin, but this was ok…for now. P3 Rucksack Tan to start out, then a wash of Dark Flesh which looked really nice, but really red (there’s a theme today). A very careful wash of the Rucksack again left the skin dirty and red, but not red red. More work is required on the skin, but I think in general I’m happy with where it ended.

Other stuff:

• Mithril Silver and Badab Black on all of the metal pieces. I wanted a bright metal. The Gamin are going to require some thought on how to make them not be just silver on silver.
• Fenris Gray for clothing that wasn’t the primary piece of cloth.
• Black for Mei’s hair.
• I think Vomit Brown for other hair bits. Mei didn’t look good as a blonde. 🙂
• Vomit Brown for tool handles, because it was on the palette and I needed a few more brown items. I get away with this because I’ll end up with different highlights/washes/etc on each of the brown bits. For example, I won’t be Devlan Mudding the tool handles so it’s already different from the railway ties.

Emberling:

And then I started work on finishing a model – the Emberling was calling to me. I’m going to have a full post devoted to him in the next day or two, so even though he’s looking pretty snazzy in that photo, you’ll have to wait!