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Blog Blackjack's Painting

Discussion in 'Personal Paint Logs' started by blackjack419, Jan 5, 2023.

  1. blackjack419
    Skink

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    Starting the tread as I wait for my first box of skinks to arrive.

    Going from scratch, so roughly three phases:

    Assembly

    Priming (waiting for nice weather outside to do so)

    Painting

    Still debating on whether to do something with the bases, like glue on a layer of sand and paint it for some grit, or Green Stuff additions.
     
    blackjack419, Jan 5, 2023
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    Welcome and I'm looking forward seeing how you develop. Skinks are great start, as they are really easy to build and paint.
     
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    Interested to see what you will settle on in terms of color scheme and basing ;)

    Grrr, !mrahil
     
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    i highly recommend green stuff! Green Stuff World actually have a really nice rolling pin i use for basing
     
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    Welcome to Lustria! Looking forward to seeing your skinks :)
     
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    Welcome!
     
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    I do both. Not exactly with greenstuff rollers, but I have old boardgame Tzolkin. It has nice ornamented gear that I slapped some blue stuff onto to make mold.
    When I need more basing, I put some milliput onto it and then crack it and use it as ruins on my bases.
     
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  8. blackjack419
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    My Skinks have arrived! Assembly to be started!

    box took a beating, but everything looks to be in good shape
     

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    No wonder it took beating, that is ancient :D
     
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    Not terribly so, but it's definitely an older printing of the box.

    Let me know if I can help with color or technique choices.
     
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    Much delayed (after having learned to paint via necrons and Space marines), I finally have my first primed batch of 14 skinks, cohort style.

    Just waiting for it to cool down around me so I don't need to blast a fan on myself while i paint!
     

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    First batch all blue now. A few hours of light blue layering worked pretty well.

    Originally tried Waggh Flesh and Ultramarine blue, just ended with a similar dark blue to Ultramarine. Corax White + Ultramarine blue produced the light blue I was looking for.

    Looking forward to detail work during the week.
     

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