Blog A Hatchlings Journey

In this beginner-blog I like to report about the progress on my seraphon models.

Because I have very little experience in the field of painting minis and the last time I painted ia somewhat over ten years ago, I consider myself an absolute beginner and would gladly hear about your suggestions and tips. All those techniques and considerations seem quite daunting to me.

I bought the starter set and made some conversions, so I got an additional skink priest, a scar veteran on cold-one, an astrolith bearer and a old-one on foot. I will repost the pictures I already posted in my introduction thread:





At this point, I only assembled and primed all my minis. Yesterday I started with making some experiments with my colours. For the skin of my lizards I aim for a little more greenish tone than the typical gw colour-scheme. You can see the result of my experiments below.




I really like how some of the colours turned out.

• Right now I consider taking A4 as Base for Skin, then wash with a deluted A1, and then put layer C4 on it. Maybe highlight or drybrush with a bit of more white into C4.
• For the scales, I think about taking A2 as Base, A1 as wash, and then maybe B6 as layer?
• The lizards should also receive a warpaint in a dark red/bordeaux.
• Weapons with bronze and gold edge-highlight.
• Shields and Blades of the Weapons with dark grey and then I would try something like a galaxy effect. Or I highlight with a light emerald green like E2 but with more white put into the mix.

What do you guys think about the whole colour concept?
I am eager for your feedback and suggestions.

As said before, I am a little lost and paralyzed by all the techniques and possible combinations of colours.
And I dont want my seraphon to look as horrible as my lord of the rings miniatures I painted as a teenager

 

I would use a wash of ... any color really... on your dark grey,
Otherwise it ends up looking like unpainted plastic.

I like the other idea of going with a darker color and edge highlighting with green.

Ps. this might help a little for color planning.
http://www.lustria-online.com/threads/ye-olde-interactive-saurus-painter.4555/

 

So the colour of the wash doesn't matter?

And would you recommend buying special washes or inks? Because I was planning on making my own washes simply by deluding a single colour with water to the point it is very very liquid.
Or is this method not recommended?

And thanks for the planner. Good pre-planning tool. Too bad that you can't create wash and layer effects.

 

I just noticed the skink's snake dreadlocks.

Cool beans

 

I have the citadel app but I either don't know how to use it properly or it is pretty useless. There is only one saurus and only one color scheme.

About the medium, do you mean the lahmian medium? Maybe it is better just to buy an ink directly? How important is the color of the ink? Does it have to match perfectly?

Actually, this was done on purpose. When I experimented with my bits, I also got the impression of snake dreadlocks. But my friends argue with me, that it doesn't look like dreads. Glad you back my point

 

So last night, I finally got to paint my first miniature. It's my testing dummie. I chose a saurus warrior, because with this guys I don't care as much about messing up.

It is not finished yet. I only put base color and shade on it. Next thing will be layer and then highlights. Take a look at the results.



I am not happy with the result. Right now it looks more or less exactly like the games Workshop standard scheme. The base colors came out very bright and light. I was aiming for the colors A2 and A4 (from my post above). On paper, the colors come out quite dark but on the miniature it got very bright. Maybe I should have mixed some black into.

Also, the result is more blue-ish than I wanted.

For the layer, I definitely want to go into a more greenish direction but without getting much lighter. But now I am scared of mixing the layer color.

 

Can I just put another layer of base color over it? Or will it get to thick?

I want to undo my mistake and get the color right before I paint the rest of my saurus.

 

Wow 300 minis in one year, amazing output. Respect!

I'm using chaos black. Thought it is the most common and I shared a spraycan with my both friends, who also started AoS.

Thanks for the tips, guys. I will test colors on some sprues and then paint this little lizard again.

 

Still not happy with the results, but here you go. That's my test saurus (sorry for the bad lighting. It's a dark day here in Germany and I don't have a strong lamp)


I want the skin to be greener and the war paint to be more red. The shield and the weapon have a soft violet effect but I think it is not visible on the Fotos.

But at least I am now content enough to start painting the rest of his friends. I will try and improve as I go along.

Next will be the rest of the saurus warriors and the saurus knights. The heroes come last

 

I like the colors so far, Sotek will be pleased.