ten thunders

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!

Tonight marks the first time I’ve applied paint to a model since September 11th. >.> Didn’t realize it had been that long, but the move definitely killed my ability to do this. Add to that the heavy conversion I’ve been working on, and it’s been weird to finally get a chance to put colour on models again!

I was worried about the Malifaux models because they are so much smaller than any of the Warhammer models that I usually work with. Base coat is going pretty well so far though. I asked Miranda what colour I should do their pants, and I really could have predicted that she’d have said red.

So Mephiston Red to start the pants off. Mithril Steel for all of the metal – the Metal Gamin are nice and simple in that regard. Some Rhinox Brown for the dirt.

I want to figure out how to make the railroad ties be a light brown, but burnt and tar-like. The rails might go to silver as well…could be to much silver though.