I blasted through these guys, and they’re looking pretty cool. Their skin is just Dheneb Stone, and then I went to town with the washes and glazes. I started with Seraphim Sepia, and painted it into the recesses and wiped away where it was too much. Then I did Waywatcher Green in random places, and in a lot more places than I usually would. So now they have that sickly green look.
I mixed Drakenhof Nightshade with some Bloodletter glaze to make a slight purple. Usually I would do this with the SW Amethyst, but the more I use the SW washes the more I don’t want to use them. They leave an annoying shiny finish that I don’t want to dullcoat away if I don’t have to. So mixing GW glazes works ok too.
I’m happy they are going so quickly, because the league starts now and I wanted to have most of my team painted before the first game! After these guys, I have a skeleton and 2 wights to paint for the starter roster.
After the highlighted basecoat, I did Seraphim Sepia in places, trying to keep it in the recesses to maintain some of the highlights I’d painted. If the Sepia got to much in a place I didn’t want it, I’d wipe it away with a finger to keep the bright colours able to maintain themselves. The pants I did a layer of Drakenhof, using the same technique, but they’re still really green.
After letting that dry I did another Drakenhof layer in the recesses and another Sepia layer in the recesses and around to spread the contrast around. I also used GW Guilliman Blue glaze on the blue areas. I thought it would work out better than the Enchanted Blue I used on the Zombies, and so far it’s worked out ok except that I think I need 2 layers of it to get closer to blue and further away from green. It’s nice, because it’s transparent and it respects the highlighting/shading I’ve done already, but it makes it blue.
Between these two photos, I did another layer of the Guilliman Blue, which I think I’ll leave where it is. I also added some GW Waywatcher Green in the bandage-recesses. I like it, but I think to much could be…to much. I might give them some more green though.
And the bases are mostly done. Just need to use black to cover up the spillage. They were as I wrote in the Zombies post, but heavier on the Zamesi Desert. They look really cool I think with the brighter yellow/orange at the very drybrushed tip.
I lost 6 games of Hearthstone in a row, and I destroyed my last drone propeller (more in the mail), so I had some time to spend on these guys. 😛
I went full-on into the Wappel shaded basecoat plan here, and I’m pleased with the results so far. The contrast is weak, but exists. The highlights are pastelly, despite using an off-white to lighten, but the point of the technique is to create to-high highlights so, success there.
I really like the subtle difference between the off-white-yellow wrappings and the off-white-grey skin, and I want to keep that distinction going as I going into glazing.
Colours are…
Skin: Dheneb Stone -> Ulthuan Grey
Wraps: Ushapti Bone -> Ulthuan Grey (not all the way)
Primary colour: Sotek Green -> Ulthuan Grey…but with some Dheneb Stone mixed in. Not that you can tell, but I used the Skin final to lighten the pants colour.
Base: Dark Flesh -> Mephiston Red. We’ll see if this was a good idea or not. I want red dirt bases, but the Zombies have simple Dark Flesh -> Sepia -> Sepia, so the addition of the Mepiston could really muck up the cohesion.
It’s nice to feel like I have painter skills again, after the Concord. The last squad didn’t make me feel good about myself.
At the same time, basing these two mummies very quickly this evening showed me that I need new paintbrushes before I go much further. My Series 7 got paint dried in the ferrule and smushed bristles in the move-into-storage that we’re doing this month, and my larger brush has just had enough.
I can’t believe I haven’t written about these guys since I primed them. >.< I don’t know if I have a really good idea of what the base layers were, but here’s a guess:
Sotek Green and Florou. Yellow uniforms, Dheneb Stone skin, Mithril Silver metals and I think Dark Flesh on the bases.
From there I put some Drakenhof over the Sotek to try to make the uniforms actually blue. I didn’t want green, but Sotek looked cool. I ended up using Enchanted Blue over the Drakenhof+Sotek as a mid-layer to bring the colour back to blue.
The yellows was that Vallejo yellow I’ve been playing with, with a lot of layers to make it actually yellow. I did Seraphim Sepia over it to give some depth, then back up with P3 Cygnus Yellow.
The skin I think I Sepia’d over the Dheneb, then did some Waywatcher Green in places to make the skin look deader.
The bases after the Dark Flesh were Sepia’d twice, I think, and then drybrushed up with Snakebite Leather and Zamesi Desert, similar to how I based my Antares Concord recently. 😛
The front of the bases is being left black, so I can paint skills onto the area so it’s super easy to tell what skill each model has.
After that, a bunch of little things. Like highlighting up the pants, then washing them down. Re-silvering the edges of the metal and the face guards. ‘ardcoat on the helmets. Some gloss in the guts.
I also black lined the yellow against the blue uniforms, which I think makes the yellow pop a hell of a lot more. That was the start of me actually liking these paint jobs. >.>
These guys are all done! Thankfully, as I have a lot more models to paint before July when the next season of CHOP begins.
I picked up the Vortice miniature mummies and wights, because they are awesome. So that’s 4 models. I also need to convert 4 ghouls and 1-2 skeletons to make a total of 15 models. Maybe do 3 skeletons to make it an even 16. I think skeletons have their use in an undead team, although the common wisdom is that their -1 AV isn’t worth their +1 MV as compared to the zombies.
Writing that down, I swear I had a better plan for the ghouls than the GW hunched guys. I think I was thinking of using Wyrd Punk Zombies for them. But…that’s not a great plan. I dunno, the GW hunchies aren’t terrible. Any thoughts?
While I wait for glue to dry on the ‘naut, I build and prime zombies. I green stuffed little hats on them, with face guards similar to my skink team. I still suck at sculpting. 🙁
Season 2 of CHOP! Blood Bowl is winding down, and my human team is doing quite miserably for me. I’m on a 8-game not-winning streak right now (2 losses, a draw, then 5 more losses), and I’m very unhappy with them. I feel like 2 months ago every team except mine jumped into overdrive!
And because I like new, shiny, I started thinking about a new team for Season 3. Undead were mentioned, model photos were displayed and I bought some Vortice Miniature Wights and Mummies. But I wanted to convert the rest, since I’m a little cheap and ~$180 for an entire new team was a little much.
This photo and post got lost in my backlog, (…) and then again in the middle of that sentence I left this post open. I think I need to publish it now. 🙂
