Blog Painting of Renown! (Just kidding... but this is my blog)

Very nice work. Well worth the effort invested!!

 

Great work there LoR!!
I feel you had a great amount of proud in your post, and correctly so

Interested to see the new project taking shape.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Thanks guys!

It makes a difference knowing I've got forum-friends to share the photos with. Helps keep everything going.

 

An excellent job on your Fireborn, your persistence has paid off handsomely!

Now to forget all about painting flames and let off steam on the Bull Centaurs!

 

Thanks matey!

 

Okay, so the Bull Centaurs project has officially begun!

I've decided to go with "ash" flesh following some advice from @ChapterAquila92 (thanks bud!) with black undercoat, then drybrushing two layers of grey on top, but still leaving some black showing. As if their time near the forges of Hashut has turned their flesh to ash. We'll see how it works out!

Otherwise, black armour drybrushed with Trollslayer orange and then weapons of Hashut Copper.

First step, magnetizing the bases so that they stay very still while I spray paint the undercoat.

 

The choice of colours sound very promising, looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

 

Okay, undercoating done.



I'm going to take two of these and give them "better quality armour" (basically better paint jobs) so they can be Taur-Ruk.

 

These are amazingly dynamic models, have fun painting them.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Experimenting with ash drybrushing effects.

I'm also going to try it on a technical paint to give it a bit more 3D and possibly use this on the side of the Bull Centaurs.



Any input from our resident paint experts? Including @Sudsinabucket @Explodingzeb?

I'm trying to do ash-flesh effect, something like the below:

 

You could try doing thin coats of Mordant Earth on the areas you you want to be ash. Thin coats makes smaller cracks if I remember correctly. Then carefully drybrush up with greys afterwards. I would test this out on a model you aren't bothered about or a base or something first though.

 

This is a really good idea. And you are completely right that it does crack smaller on a thinner coat. I bought too much for my Fireborn so I'll do a dry run on another model.

 

So on the right is my trials with the two greys to make a wood-ash effect.

The middle is Astrogranite painted black, which I'll try drybrushing tonight.

The left is (drying) Mordant Earth to see if this (with a thin layer and thus thin cracks) gives a better effect. I think I might have to redo this one with a PVA glue layer underneath as there wasn't a lot of cracking when I checked earlier.

 

So the best ash effect I produced was with Astrogranite, painted black and then dry brushed with two shades of grey (thankfully, I don't have 50 of this color)



It's the one in the middle at the bottom.

So, I decided that this would be the Bull Centaur theme and indeed the theme for the whole army. They have worked so long at the forges and fires for Hashut that their very flesh has turned to ash.

So started last night on the test model for this with the Astrogranite.



So, again, this will be painted black and then dry-brushed two different greys.

Then I wanted a different theme for my Taur-ruk. I then invented that the more my CD's have been embracing Hashut, the more the flames become part of them. Turning them into a semi-K'daai with special protection (although game-wise this will simply be the result of magic items). I'm going to do the magma coming through the rocks effect on his flesh.

Let's see how I do!

First stage below.

 

That Astrogranite effect looks great, I'm glad one of the options you had worked out. Are you using the mordant earth effect on the Taur-ruk?

 

Thanks buddy. Both Mordant Earth and Astrogranite worked, I just think Astrogranite made it slightly more realistic.

Yes, but from a lava-effect. My whole concept being that the CD's go from normal flesh, to ash, then a flame kindling deep within them with a final transformation into K'Daai Fire Daemons.

Almost as if the Bull Centaur Taur-ruk is in the penultimate transformation stage into a K'Daai Destroyer.

[LoR crosses fingers]

Really hope it works out. I'm quibbling over what to do with the face. Either paint it with the colors and then position the lightest yellow areas for eyes, or don't do the Mordant Earth at all. The thing that gives me pause is the amount of details there on the face.

 

I'm sure they'll look great! I'd avoid using Mordant Earth on the face personally. Seems like it could obscure too much. Glowing eyes would look good, you could also maybe hand paint small lava cracks on.

 

Finished the red on the Taur-ruk



And painted all of the texturing with Astrogranite black ready for dry brushing.



I'm a bit daunted about the upcoming Taur-ruk face bit but here goes anyways.

 

Great to see you have found a method you are happy with. Good ideas an progress.

Keep up the good work.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Okay, I'm having some fun now.

I'm quite happy with the whole ash-flesh effect. Now I'm going to do drybrushing of armour with Hashut copper and then probably pick out some details.



The Taur-ruk looks dumb right now... Hopefully my idea on the lava flesh comes out okay. I'm going to do a very thin layer of PVA tonight, let it dry then do the mordant earth. Fingers crossed.