Again with the blasted eyes… this guy had a different problem, in thatwhile I got the left one ok, the right one (looking at him…) would continually blot out the entire surface of the eye. Kelly recommended that I got back on my Performer and deepen the eye sockets a bit, and I may have to do that to this guy as well.
He got a huge pile of leaves coverage the storm drain he’s sitting on, because I was feeling like moar leaves were moar bettah.
Next up, I think I’m back to working on Arcanists. There’s a tournament coming up that I’m thinking of going to, and I need a handful more models to shore up my potential Hardcore list. 😛
I painted a couple layers of SW Heavy Body Black on their cloaks after the last session. Then took straight Codex Grey and watered it way down and painted that on the edges. I wiped away some of the paint with my finger when it got to built up, my goal was to use it in a “feathering” manner away from the edges, and leave it pretty bright on the actual edges.
Then I went back for the glowing bits. These were Warpstone Green mixed up with White in successive drybrushed layers. I realized that one of the guys didn’t have nearly enough flames on him, so I painted part of his coffin, trying to make it look like there was a green glowy fire inside his box.
I added the leaves after a week or so, after they arrived in the mail from Secret Weapon. This product is brilliant – it instantly spruced up my cobblestone so that it looked a lot less painted and a lot more awesome.
I’m still having some serious trouble with the SW washes, in that they are leaving things very shiny. I’m not certain what is causing the shine, and I can’t seem to get rid of it effectively with dullcoat or matte medium, so I’m going to have to experiment with how I use the washes.
Unfortunately, my summer so far has had a lot less time for painting – if you’re a regular reader you’ll have noticed posts every 3 days until just now – this post is the first since Adepticon that hasn’t been scheduled. 😛
After base coating this model, I really like it. The face has excellent features, and the clothing hangs nice, and I like the little details like where his pants cover his ankles because it’s to big.
I painted his hair and inner shirt Ushapti Bone, and his skin Kislev Flesh. His jacket was a 1:1 mix of Warpstone Green and Mournfang Brown, and for the pants I mixed some Vomit Brown into that mix.
This little guy has proven to be 2ss of miraculous flexibility with Tara, and I think he’ll see a place in most crews I build with her!
I painted the coffin Vomit Brown, then mixed with Ushapti up. Â Then SW Flesh Wash all over and SW Amethyst in the shadows. I’ve done a few layers of the Amethyst in the shadows. I also painted a few thin lines of Mournfang Brown along the grain of the wood to give it a little depth amongst the wood paneling. I may do some lighter colours in a similar pattern later, after I’ve finished with the Amethyst and the Marshal himself, to cover up any mistakes.
My hope is to make the Marshal himself be somewhat monochrome, so I’ve painted the same basecoat all over him. I started with Snakebite Leather mixed with Codex Grey. I did SW Heavy Body Black all over and then mixed that with Codex Grey and painted that on the raised areas. We’ll see where this goes!
This was a pretty fun model. Even though I have the transparent edition, I wanted to paint Tara. She’s a human being…why is she transparent? So I left the soulstone and her Obliteration arm transparent and did the rest in a brown/green cowboy look.
I started with some pretty bright browns – the same colour for her skirt, cloak and shirt, and then an even brighter colour for her leggings. Her hair started out blond, but that looked kind of dumb so she ended up black of hair with a little grey streak.
All of the base coats went through a number of different glaze applications, using lots of the Secret Weapon purple, blue and flesh wash to add lots of different subtle colours. After that was done, I went back and did a “traditional layering” technique on the raised parts of the cloth.
The face I did with Kislev Flesh, then glazed down lightly with blue. Then I mixed the Kislev with some Warpstone Glow and Waywatchers Green and very lightly painted into the recesses on either side of the nose and the underside of her face. The Kislev was to pink, so I finished by mixing the green with Ushapti Bone.
I also glazed the sword and arm blue. Because I could.
I think she needs a dullcoat to bring the shininess together – there are a variety of different levels of shine here, and it’s bothersome. I might also pick up some Blood for the Blood God and use it on her back hole. That wouldn’t be a bloodless wound…and besides I’ll need it for Killjoy in the end. 😀
I successfully used plastic glue on these guys, so they didn’t need (*cough*) any paint. So this is as good a place as any to talk about how I’m doing my Outcast bases!
I started with Secret Weapon resin cobblestone bases. I picked a bunch of these up while at AdeptiCon because I wanted to finally get some of them under my models. I think in the end, I’d rather do my own bases. I feel like I’m getting pretty good at customizing them and I don’t have to order in more when I find out I don’t have enough. >.<
I basecoated them with a drybrush of Codex Grey and Fortress Grey. This looked pretty crappy. I think the roundness of the cobblestones just made it look bad, as opposed to a grey square brick. Anyway, a long way still to go. 🙂
I used the Amethyst (purple) and Sapphire (blue) Secret Weapon washes to heavily shade the crevasses, and also to tint the surfaces. GW Waywatcher Green was used in puddles to bring little spots of green around.
Then I drybrushed again with Fortress Grey to bring the highlight back up.
SW Red Black wash (which is actually kind of…purpley) and Flesh Wash over the gravel bits. I used the Oxid Paste to keep the Wretches feet well anchored to their bases, and wanted to colour this differently.
Then I drybrushed up again with Fortress Grey and mixed in Skull White over 3 layers to bring the shade way up again. I drybrushed Zamesi Desert, mixed with Ushapti Bone over the gravel and called it a day.
The details were Warpstone Glow Leaves, Mithril Silver metal and Zamesi Desert rope. I did these colours early so that the various glazes and washes would colour them as well.
As usual, I wasn’t happy with how it looked until I finished and then walked away for a couple days. Now I’m really glad that they look great, and didn’t need any paint! 😛
I decided that I liked the new Killjoy model. The old one was so 2D and fugly that I couldn’t bring myself to give a shit about him. The new one is still ugly, but not ugly in a model sense, just in a *shudder* sense.
GMorts Chaotica did an unboxing of him, and I’m super glad he did otherwise I wouldn’t have had the forethought to magnetize his chain arm! I swore the chain was going to snap while I was cutting it off the sprue…
He probably won’t see paint for a bit – have a few other projects I’d like to get painted first, and a few summer-outside-like-things starting up!
I may have mentioned winning the transparent Tara box…she needed a crew to go with her…and she ended up Outcast instead of Resser. The main reason was that I wanted to try out using the Malifaux Child with Tara, and then I found Hans in a local games store and I’ve always wanted to shoot 36″ so here we are!
I am still considering Resser Tara, because The Hanged is gross and looks fun to use to make your opponent cry. But I like that both the Child and Hans can be used in other crews as well!
I picked up two of the metal Death Marshals on a deal, and grew to really like the models. I cut away their faces, glued on some skull heads and sculpted some flames from their head, which I’m pretty happy about! It’s subtle, but I think much cooler than the original human heads.
Believe it or not, this is the first non-AdeptiCon related post I’ve written since AdeptiCon. It’s been a long back-log. 😛
I won the Nightmare Tara Transparent Edition at the AdeptiCon Story Encounter. I told Jamie, and he said he’d be happy to trade for her. I told him I was thinking of keeping her. >.>
I had originally planned to only play crews that I could build from what I had already – ie, Ramos from Mei, Hoffman from Ramos, etc. But fuck it – someone gives you a sweet set of transparent models, you play with those!
Unfortunately, I screwed up. I was so worried about frosting the outside of the Nothing Beast, I frosted the inside. >.< I was upset about it, until I had a brilliant idea to fix the problem, and have something original.
I’m going to paint parts of the model! So parts of it are all smokey and other parts are opaque! It’s kind of scary painting something so unique, but it’ll be awesome when it’s done!
If you have the transparent models –Â buy plastic glue. I picked up Tamiya Cement (but in English) and glued the Void Wretches together. So much nicer. So much less worry about creeping glue.
I also bought the Citadel Imperial Primer. It’s a paint on primer, since I wanted to prime but can’t spray. With this stage, this product began to enter “totally f’d up” territory. Apparently you have to shake the ever living shit out of this product. It starts very watery, but after shaking it’s much thicker. Let me say that again, in larger text so everybody makes sure to read it —
SHAKE IMPERIAL PRIMER VERY VERY WELL.
I didn’t on this model. I started to paint the bits and found parts of the primer sloughing off. I tore away large strips and continued painting. After a while, it seemed like it had done coming off but I didn’t trust it. I started to rub with my thumb, and all of the surfaces came away.
To be fair to this product, after I had shaken it very well and tried it on the Void Wretch bases it stuck as well as I expect primer to stick.
To continue the horrible madness of the Nothing Beast. I decided to stick it in Pine Sol for the night and to just strip it and start again. The next morning I toothbrushed the model and got most of the paint away…only to find that some of the pine sol was stuck inside the model. Facepalm. So then I try to tear apart the torso of the Nothing, and find that the plastic actually has a weaker hold than the super glue I originally used and so it ripped the plastic apart.
I rinsed the model off and put it aside. Sometimes you just have to walk away for a bit to clear your head.
That afternoon I inspected the model and decided it might be salvageable. But that if anything else went wrong, I was going to stomp on the model and go buy a new box on EBay, even if it cost me $100+.
So far it’s going pretty well. The opaque covering looks really good next to the transparent layer. The primer has stuck. The inside is not filled with fluid. And the areas that were frosted are covered. If nothing else goes wrong, this will look amazing.
