Blog Aginor's Painting Blog

Oh and I also noticed that some companies call their shades/washes "inks".
I can at least speak for Army Painter and say it is the same thing. Those are just shades. I heard some companies handle that differently though, inks being more pigment-heavy than shades. Maybe there are even some that call their glazes inks?

 

Back way back when, I tried painting models with oils, now apart from the drying time they were easy to work with and blend, I used quite a few W&N products then, the varnish etc was excellent quality.

 

Who let the dogs out?
...me.

Here are some better pictures of the Hounds:

 

...and the rest:

 

Started painting some skeletons!

The problem was: I am an idiot and did not mind the high humidity we had at the weekend. So applying my skeleton bone spray primer turned out to be a complete disaster.
The coat became grainy and too thick, it went into lots of details and basically destroyed all 20 of my Mantic skeletons.
I decided to still go on and paint them. They are Skeletons after all and if they look really bad it is because they just got summoned from their graves. I will use mud and blood effects to cover up some if the real bad parts I guess.

I took 10 of them and thought: can't get any worse, at least I get to know the sculpt and get some practice.

Naturally I wasn't too motivated to paint them very detailed since the details were already messed up before I even started. So I quickly slapped on a few base colors, then drowned them in sepia shade, applied some rust effects and drybrushed them a bit with silver in the end. I went for a rather dirty look with those.

For guys I had basically already written off they turned out pretty well I think. Here is how they look right now. Basically finished except the bases.

I like how many different poses, heads, and shapes there are in this cheap box.
Considering those are half the price of GW Skellies and about the same level of quality they are worth it. Aesthetically I am not completely sure. I will see if they fit together with GW skeletons as soon as I have painted those as well. (Already have bought twenty).

 

Started with the second part of the set, and it seems I was a bit more lucky there, with less details destroyed by my lack of judgement.
Motivation status: High.

 

Nothing wrong with those skellys

 

Thanks, guys!

My idea lore wise is that I will have two different looks of Skeletons: one with the colors I used for the ones above (green and black with some leather straps in brown) and then a few more barbaric looking ones (the GW skeletons).
The necromancer basically summoned up skeletons of soldiers from an old battlefield. Some are troops of a Lord whose colors were green and black, and the other ones were vikings/gallics/Germanic types barbarians.

 

I kinda like their realistic style. I also like GWs heroic style because the weapons are bigger and many details are just more visible although more comic-ish.

The only thing I really dislike about the Mantic skeletons is that their eye sockets are not empty. It is clearly meant for giving them cool red or - white walker style - blue glowing eyes, but I like it better when they just look like real skeletons.

 

Those look pretty good indeed.
The other thing I dislike btw: Only eight spears for ten skellies. I don't blame them though since the guys at Mantic of course don't know I am going to use them for AoS. I am using parts of Skink Javelins to make the rest of the spears. Got plenty of those and they have almost the right diameter.

In other news: Last night I base coated the other ten, took me around three hours. I'll finish them tonight so I guess I can do ten skellies in four to five hours, which puts one skeleton at about half an hour of work the way I am currently painting them.