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[Y'ttar Scaletail]

 

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[Imrahil]

I very much approve of this

Grrr, !mrahil

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

 

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[Y'ttar Scaletail]

Italeri Prussian Cuirassier


Was a very odd scale to work at, but I think I got the look fairly decently down.

Admiral Minis Dwarf Slaver.

@Karak Norn Clansman I may need to go back and fix/retouch a few areas. I also couldn't help but cheekily put in a little Irish myth with the two bulls on the hat design.

Bolt Action 8th Army Commonwealth/SAS Infantry


I pretty much followed the guide in Wargames Illustrated with a few changes of my own.

Punga Minis Pi-Rat



I had to do Clan Skurvy, despite my history with hating yellow.

I have a few older pics to eventually upload, but I figured I might as well skip ahead to my standing at the end of this month.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Italeri Prussian Cuirassier

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Was a very odd scale to work at, but I think I got the look fairly decently down.

Great to see someone else who collects 1:72s here! Italeri have made some good sets, though it's infuriating that they, like Airfix, seem to have pretty much given up now with making figures and continually focus on planes e.t.c

 

[Karak Norn Clansman]

Wow, very nice paintjobs, not least on the scribe! And lovely take with the Irish myth infusion. Cheeky is good.

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

There, I actually painted a Lizardman!




He's actually also a test model for my painting vows for this month where i'm trying to paint the Starblood Stalkers warband. The Old Blood is going to be painted as my recurring Old Blood Tox of the Darkened Scale.

Similarly, here's another model who has appeared in one short story here. Countess Isa Strandt, Explorer.

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

Some updates from Feb:

Cadian from the model of the month:




Starblood Stalkers:

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

Klaq-Trok painted instead as my own Saurus Old-Blood: Tox of the Darkened Scale

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

So many feathers...

 

[Lord-Marcus]

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:

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Your nighthaunt are very good. Constructive criticism from me would be to dry brush highlight a brown onto the areas you are washing with a contrast brown color, as they look very "one wash and done" compared to the blending and overall skill shown in the rest of the scheme.

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

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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.

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

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

Similarly, your stormcast could do with a lighter, pastel pink to burgundy dry brush. I would achieve this by mixing a skin tone with the current burgundy you are using.

Additionally, the cloth here could use a wash and highlight.

 

[Lord-Marcus]

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Klaq-Trok painted instead as my own Saurus Old-Blood: Tox of the Darkened Scale

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Similar to my comments about the nighthaunt. You have some excellent Metallics work with scales that are aching for a dry brush.

 

[Lord-Marcus]

So many feathers...

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These two are amazing. I love how you've done the blending on the feathers.

As a curious slaan, would you be open to sharing your blending method?

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

Many thanks for the comments, praise, and constructive crit!

These two are amazing. I love how you've done the blending on the feathers.

As a curious slaan, would you be open to sharing your blending method?

IIRC, it was a basecoat of Vallejo Yellow Ochre (913), Evil Sunz Scarlet (Part of me wonders if I used Wild Rider Red instead, but i'm pretty certain it was Evil Sunz) at the base of the feather and Warpstone Green at the tip, a thinned washed of Seraphim Sepia, then re-apply and mix the yellow and red and yellow and green on a wet pallete. For the Priest I blended a little further just to make the feather colouration a little more seamless, so more yellow for the red mix and more yellow for the green mix. Wasn't really a proper wet blend, more subtle-ish transition.

The Nighthaunt if I remember correctly was just rhinox with an agrax wash and a reapplication of the rhinox. You are right, a drybrush of something like Zandri or Gorthor would have made them that bit better. I blame slightly younger me's greeness and laziness after ruining himself doing the green to black.

The Astral Templars do definately need a final highlight. At that time I did not have a wet palette (only started using one this year and wow it makes things so much easier!) so any mixed colours dried very quickly. I think I did try a lighter more pinkish colour but it just didn't work, so I kept it dirty.

For Tox i'm not sure if I do want to give him a final drybrush scale highlight. He isn't meant to stand out too much (as he stands near the bright bloo skinks) in his backstory and I think the slightly flat and dull purple fits for him.

Anyway, cheers for the replies and I will think on what you suggest.