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To date, I have only painted some Skinks, which are still a work in progress. Today, I began painting my first larger model: a Troglodon. My coworker that got me into AoS has been offering painting advice and even directly assisting with techniques. This model is still very much a work in progress, but I'd appreciate your input. I would like the main body color to have a purple hue to it. I attempted this with a wash, where the tail splits, but it saturated and covered the blue rather than accenting it. Would what I'm trying to achieve be better attempted with dry brushing? Also, any input on a bright color that would compliment the rest of the body for the sails would be appreciated.

 

Im liking the colour. Im not a great painter but have you tried thinning the purple was with lamia medium? If you mix enough in it creates a glaze. Then when dry you can drybrush over everything with the same colour to tie it all together

 

Hi!
You could use a darker wash (Druchii Violet e.g.). Then drybrush with skull-white and glaze the drybrushed areas (not the recesses) with a lighter color

 

I'll have to research these suggestions. They sound promising, but I have no idea how to perform them. Thank you all for the input.

 

Welcome @Wilhelm Stürmer !

Why don't you start your own paint blog to the painting section so that you can keep updating us + have an archive of your progress?

 

Yup, I agree Thanks for the video references, those should be very helpful.

 

@Crowsfoot For some reason, your Youtube links aren't working after the thread was moved.

Never mind, issue appears to be on my end.

 

Small update. I painted another layer of blue, primarily because I felt that there was too much area that looked as though the brush just ran out of paint. Unfortunately it's now a bit darker than I had wanted. I painted the sails, the underside, and touched up the purple on the spines. I plan to dry brush a purple over the whole body, in an attempt to hue the blue slightly. Hopefully, I can do that tomorrow.

 

REALLY appreciate this tip! I'll stop by GW and pick some of that up.

 

So I actually have two updates, because I forgot to post them separately.

I ended up using Slannesh Grey to highlight the Troglodon. Now, I've had two people say they see the slight purple highlighting, but I can't. The body and highlights didn't turn out quite how I had envisioned, but I still like it, so I'm going with it.

The underside is based in The Fang and then washed in Agrax. Also, I went with Abaddon Black on the claws, with Ardcoat over it. The lashings are painted with Rhino/Rhinox Hide, emblems in... Something Gold, tusks and fetish skulls in Ushanti Bone, and teeth in a mix of Ushanti Bone & Screaming Skull.

I plan to paint the feathers in some combination of yellow and orange, and then the venom sacs I'm still undecided on. I know I want them to be a bright contrast, similar to some frog and lizard throat membranes.

The end will consist of touch up, as there are a few places I've slipped with the brush.

As always, I'd appreciate your feedback and any suggestions on the venom sac coloring would be appreciated.

 

Third set of update pics

 

Well, aside from basing, I'm considering this model done. The perfectionist in me wants to keep using the detail brush to fix minute details, but I could do that for weeks, quite likely. It not quite as I had envisioned, but I really like it, nonetheless. Next up will be all my Skinks, though I think I'll work on them in blocks of 10.

 

So I wanted to test out two priming ideas: one all black and then white dry brushing to highlight, the other zenithol primed. I did this using two of the Saurus Warriors from the Start Collecting box. I can't really tell the difference, but I also think I wanted to detail the models so much that the priming method was a bit wasted. This method will likely work better with Skinks. At any rate, here are the two Warriors.