The promised Emberling post.
Before starting painting the crew, I wanted to see what others were doing with them. It’s like…if others are painting their orks in green, you don’t want to paint them pink. Unless you’re deliberately doing that. Have to know the rules before you can break them.
I found this guy who had painted two Mei Feng crews and a ton of other Malifaux stuff as well – that thread is an excellent resource! I liked his Emberling and wanted to copy it. I
I’ve been trying to do the lava-look on my stegadon base, but I was never really happy with it. Mr. Wappel has an example of a fantastic looking lava model, as well as a ton of lava bases that he’s painted and I’ve always wanted to get that look right. Here’s what I did on this guy:
- Primed white. This is critical!
- Sunburst Yellow base. I should have done a second or third coat of this, but at the time I thought it was good enough. The yellow really should be pristine when you start.
- Used a foam bit to stiple Blazing Orange around. I was trying to keep it on the raised areas like a drybrush, but to make a random pattern like weathering. I was not entirely successful, mainly because the models arms got in the way of my foam so I had to “get in there”.
- Watered mephiston red lines on the top of the raised edges of the model. This is not nearly as stark as the photo looks.
- Cleaned up some of the edges with watered Sunburst Yellow, the goal was to make it yellow yellow under it all.
- Straight Black on the raised flat parts of the model and the face.
- Mixed Black and Fenris Grey to highlight the black edges.
- Mixed some Rucksack Tan into that to further highlight the face and only the top-most flat parts. The face should be highlighted more than the rest to provide focus.
I’ll try to get a better photo of this guy when I finish the rest of the crew, since this one was rushed.
