Blog Y'ttar Tries to Paint Things...

Greet-greetings!

Mid last year buoyed on by attempting to build and paint the aircraft in the Aeronautica starter set, I ended up getting several issues of the Mortal Realms: Age of Sigmar magazines with the goal to get some practice in and get somewhat passable to eventually paint some of my older models, some Chaos Dwarf Online models, and if I dare...Dreadfleet.

Every month since December, i've started doing a monthly painting challenge list based off of the old UE Painting Vows system.

Anyway, enough talk-squeaking. Here's some image-things:

Ork Dakkajet, Imperial Thunderbolt, Ork Fightabomma









The Briar Queen







Spoopy Ghosts (The second at the time was still wip)





More to follow eventually...

 

Great way to keep motivated and develop your skills.

Nicely painted.
I for sure love the windows on your plains, great effect.

Keep up the good work

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Great you're sharing!

Can you upload these photos as thumbnails? (Drag them onto the message space, then click on thumbnail) as I can't seem to be able to open them on my computer. And I want to see them!

 

I think the image files are too big, will have a play around and see if I can make them work.

Cheers, the windows took a long time to work out, that bomma is prolly the best example of the bunch.

Sneaky Ratty edit covering the UE painting ranks he achieved:

 

@Lizards of Renown Original images fixed.

Here's some pictures of my test Stormcast. I went with the Astral Templars host.






Later Stormcast you will notice are a little different to the test...

And here's some Myrmourn Banshees with a Tomb Banshee.









So many wash layers to try and get that colour to blend...

And lastly some of the sculpted bases for the Stormcast Castigators:

 

Both sets of photos show you've got mad skills!

I particularly like the blending on the ghosts. Really well done.

 

The green on those ghostly minis is really great!

 

Aww thankies both.
It was a base of Ironrach, a wash of Hexwraith Green, Nighthaunt Gloom at the darkest point (sometimes with Abaddon Black as the darkest point) and many many (too many) layers of Hexwraith washes until the colours blended enough, then a gentle drybrush of Ironrach again with if needed spot highlights of Corax White.

Also here's some pictures of the Gryph Hound I finished a couple weeks back. Still not quite happy with the claws, need to get a bit more practice on those.



(You can also see one of the test Chainrasps on the right before I got the green wash blending down. )

 

Onto a pair of Dreadblade Harrows, I tried experimenting with flowing the bone of the horse skull into the ethereal green of the rest of their bodies.
I also experimented reducing the number of washes for the blend by making up a Caliban Green wash, which I think did save me a few dozen layers of washing...






After the test Stormcast I tried to refine the scheme a little more with more Sequitors.

 

Nice.

How did you make the green kind of luminous?

 

About four to five washes of Hexwraith Flame over a light base, the more washes the more of a deeper fiery green it goes (the riders themselves had probably closer to 10-12 washes...or at least it felt like it was that many!) Then a light drybrush of Ironrach Skin on some of the raised areas. MVP defo is the Hexwraith though, it's such a satisfying ghostly green.

 

It definitely is satisfying. Totally glows. Nice one. Do you think that effect would work for a magical weapon? Maybe with a blue wash of some kind?

 

One of the sample schemes GW give for Hexwraith might be what you're looking for, they call it Hexed Blue and it's a base of Corax White, a wash or two of Hexwraith, a wash or two of Nighthaunt Gloom, and a highligh layer of Ulthuan Grey. Giving this sort of greenish-blue that might suit a magic weapon or Powerfield:



Hexwraith as far as I can make out was a proto-contrast paint, so whilst it is a wash it is a lot denser almost like a regular layer paint. So getting the same kind of ghostly glow with a regular wash might be a bit trickier. Not impossible though, as i'd imagine enough built up layers of blue with some subtle blending could create something similar in your chosen colour. I'm certainly not enough of a professional to know for sure, but the contrast paints generally give a shortcut to what would normally take a painter a lot longer.

 

*Returns*

I have been painting some of the Garden of Morr terrain pieces last couple of weeks, here's a few shots:



I also had a shot at painting a Glaivewraith earlier this week:



Currently attempting to finish a unit of them before the end of the month...

 

I like these a lot. Love the color of the Stones and the rusty spikes.
I still think this is the best scenery set GW has rekeased, mostly due to the variety of setting you can create.

Wow, the rust here is also fenominal. And I dig the transition from black to green. Great stuff!!!

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Not to mention the extra little corvid model that comes with the set, which i'm planning on using for a character conversion.

The stone itself is just basecoated black, then drybrushed Kantor Blue and then Whitescar White. It's surprisingly simple but gives quite the ethereal moonlit night colour to the stonework. All of the skulls are slowly killing me though. Do you think they start a cemetary with just a handful of skulls and leave big gaps in walls for more when they get them, or maybe they just cart around piles of skulls? Maybe Khorne has been running a skull selling business on the side? (Or the skulls are actually meant to be carvings and i'm a horrible person...)

Thankies!
Combo'd the GW technical paint Typhus Corrosion (giving it extra gritty texture) with a heavy drybrush of Ryza Rust.
The black to green transition has been a pain. Originally I started with Black to Nighthaunt Gloom (a more dark bluish grey) to Hexwraith Green, but to blend the three was taking a ridiculous amount of coats (at least a couple dozen I think, time blurs the more you do.) I ended up swapping the Gloom out for a dark green (Dark Angles/Caliban Green) which has saved at least six or so coats.

I was toying with the idea to make the horse skulls similar to my earlier ghost horses and transition into an ethereal green...but I figured in the end it would take away too much from the contrast of the black hood and weathered skull.

 

Excellent work! I like the rust on the gates.

 

They indeed look ethereal moonlit, recipe to remember

Painting so much skulls makes your mind wonder, lol

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Finished painting the sculpted bases on the Thorns of the Briar Queen (so many roses!)







Also finished the unit champion of the Sequitors. I've often botched up attempts to paint faces, I think this time with a little patience and research it has come out a bit more realistic.






Finally, I managed to rush finish four Glaivewraiths over three nights (and far too many washes) in time for the month end.




Now to trying to finish the Garden of Morr, more Glaivewraiths (with scary textured bases), and some character models...

 

These Glaivewraiths are really good work, they don't look rushed at all.

I think you did a decent job with the guys face.