Blog Titans Paint Log

Posting this mostly for my own accountability.


Still to assemble:
5 more cold ones
13 cold one riders
15 temple guard
3 kroxigor
Carnosaur/rider
24 skinks (maaaaybe, god I don't love skinks).

Will also need to file/clip those cold one backs, though based on how poorly the riders sit atop them I might not even need to.

Still to paint: everything! Well, excluding 6 models from 3 years ago and 6 half painted dudes living in limbo. Heading out to buy a primer today and then should be all set. Thinking of going with a grey primer. Also no idea what to do for bases yet, though i've never had a knack for that so plan is to do that last.

Kind of annoyed that i'm missing 1 skink, 2 saurus warriors and 3 saurus knights from the old sprues, must be long forgotten starts to this same project.

 

Anyone have any tips for filing/clipping/trimming the finecast kroxigor? These things have sprue connected to everything, I cant tell for some of them whether they are part of the model or are excess resin. Will take forever to file resin off of every spike too

 

12 down, many to go! Here are two that turned out cleanest I think. For the next batch i'd like to do more of a gradiant effect on the shields rather than just layers.

I think ill do batches of 10, 12 was just a bit too many. And then maybe like a kroxigor or sunblood in between each batch as a treat!

 

Nice! Keep going!

 

Those look great! I don't have any experience with gw finecast or resin I general so can't offer tips on how to prepare it sadly...

 

I still dont love my most recent models, but as a confidence booster I dug out an old temple guard musician I painted when I was like 8 years old.

Hopefully in a few years ill be painting ones that make my current ones look just as comparatively bad!

 

Your current painting is tight. Nice shading and cleanly painted. Nothing to be concerned or embarrassed about.

I'd be quite happy with myself if my paint jobs were like this.

 

It's always nice to look back at old models to see how far we've come. Often we don't see how we improve because it's in small increments over time, and artists are ways overly critical of their own work. It's also surprising how much of a difference basing makes. Once you do that you'll probably change your mind about your current models

 

+1

This is an excellent piece of advice.

 

First squad is done!

Took way longer than expected. But lots of little things that will save time on future batches. Like painting shields separately, doing bases before gluing the models. A big one is doing all the gold bits right after basecoating everything, so that there is less time spent on fixing mistakes at the end. I didn't fully get the hang of the shield gradient I wanted until the end too so will know that for the next ones.