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mrsnakedown
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Yo! Uh, not sure how best to start this off. Just wanted to start a thing up here so I don't feel like I have to inundate all of my friends with my constant WIP posting lol
Generally pretty new to model painting, and surprising myself with every finished product! While I have been making 2D art (link warning: gratuitous swearing, anime and old art) for the majority of my life, I've never considered myself to be much of a painter, and I can be pretty damn clumsy when it comes to these things too.
Currently I'm plodding my way through the AoS Start Collecting Saurus box, with plans to get my hands on the skink box, an EotG and maybe a dread saurian down the line once I finish these guys. Maybe I'll throw some orks in too, who knows!
To start off, here are some progress shots of my troglodon:
6/10:
Colour base established, beginnings of underbelly blocked in on tail
7/10:
Attempted to dry brush black over the more heavily scaled areas. Finished belly, painted green stripes; I think I finished most of the trog body this day but I can't find any other progress shots
(post drybrushing)
(stripes)
9/10:
I finished them I guess?
I think next time I'm going to try masking points of contact and leaving all the fiddly bits off when I'm painting, cause that skink kinda sucked to paint. Bits kept breaking off him - you can see his banner fell off between the two days of progress shots, and then I think the next day I snapped the tip off his spear. He's just a fragile lil guy.
Tried to then take the trog, my paints, and my spray based cold ones to the club the next week and had my entire pot of blood angels red explode inside the box I was keeping my paints in while I was at work. None of my models were in the box with them, but after I cleaned it up I looked like I'd just tried to kill someone with my bare hands :') And of course it meant I had to buy an entire new pot of paint after having literally only used it on tiny parts of one model. Need to figure out a safer way to transport paints on a bike lmao
Generally pretty new to model painting, and surprising myself with every finished product! While I have been making 2D art (link warning: gratuitous swearing, anime and old art) for the majority of my life, I've never considered myself to be much of a painter, and I can be pretty damn clumsy when it comes to these things too.
Currently I'm plodding my way through the AoS Start Collecting Saurus box, with plans to get my hands on the skink box, an EotG and maybe a dread saurian down the line once I finish these guys. Maybe I'll throw some orks in too, who knows!
To start off, here are some progress shots of my troglodon:
6/10:
Colour base established, beginnings of underbelly blocked in on tail
7/10:
Attempted to dry brush black over the more heavily scaled areas. Finished belly, painted green stripes; I think I finished most of the trog body this day but I can't find any other progress shots
(post drybrushing)
(stripes)
9/10:
I finished them I guess?
I think next time I'm going to try masking points of contact and leaving all the fiddly bits off when I'm painting, cause that skink kinda sucked to paint. Bits kept breaking off him - you can see his banner fell off between the two days of progress shots, and then I think the next day I snapped the tip off his spear. He's just a fragile lil guy.
Tried to then take the trog, my paints, and my spray based cold ones to the club the next week and had my entire pot of blood angels red explode inside the box I was keeping my paints in while I was at work. None of my models were in the box with them, but after I cleaned it up I looked like I'd just tried to kill someone with my bare hands :') And of course it meant I had to buy an entire new pot of paint after having literally only used it on tiny parts of one model. Need to figure out a safer way to transport paints on a bike lmao
