Blog Birthing a New Army

Aaaand the current culprits of dristactability are...

 

Had a couch potato night with the wife; so I finally cracked the seal on the Kroak and got him masked and into subassemblies for priming tonight!

 

Kroak is primed and ready to go hang out with his new friends!

 

Wait, why is there a second one peaking from behind?

 

Painted with the family for awhile today and made some progress on my own models this time!


Kroak's fancy chair.



Yet to be named Slann (although I have a few ideas).

And their new home.

 

Haha, the kit has some of the best extra bits. I might greenstuff myself a third (erm fourth) Slann.

Either to go onto a terrain piece, or I might stick in in the hatch of a tank or rhino somewhere.

 

Good work on the painting, love the marble vibe of the thrones.

That is awesome, how much greenstuff is needed?

Grrr, !mrahil

 

Probably a lot. Would definitely make an aluminum foil core for it and skin it in greenstuff.

 

Hi

Your models look amazing. The new seraphon boxset has got me to return to wargames and painting after about 8 years off, I have been browsing here for inspiration and your multicoloured dinos are so cool. I tried to do something similar with some tyranids years ago but did not have the skills to pull it off. Would you mind sharing how you did those beautiful colour transitions/blends?

 

Oh man new lizards! Looking forward to seeing them finished

 

Thanks! I spend too much time on them individually, so the appreciation helps keep me at the grind for troops.

I have gone down three routes on them to get to different flavours of roughly the same result.

Prime them white, paint the midsection and shoulders yellow. Hit the tail, tops of the legs, and arms with a semitransparent red. Hit the shoulders and head (excepting the nose) with a semitransparent green. And finally hit the front of the head with a darker blue. Scales hit an opaque black on my guard models, and an opaque dark blue on the scales for the rest of my saurus.

My first round was done by wet blending with contrast paints, but it wasn't bright enough, so I did a round of blending with wet stippleing to get a brighter smoother transition.

When I realized I have over 150 unpainted seraphon models (ignoring my 40k and malifaux models), I did snag an airbrush to get the basecoating done much faster. Every scale and skin highlight is brush painted though. And they started to look okay by the 8th model (repetition helps the end result ).

Let me know if you have a questions about it!

 

Last pro tip on that, I switched to a fine tip sharpie for the scales after painting them on the first 15 guard.

 

Some slight progress on my flappy boys. I need to take a picture of the terradon proof of concept too.

 

Those wings are gorgeous. I love what you did! A cool color scheme and nices forms

 

Thanks! Just took that promised picture of a poppa terradon.

 

Trying to psyke myself up to try NNM gold on him...this is what I did instead...

 

I like the green face on the side of the throne, really nice color

 

Split the new Warcry box with someone (I got the terrain, aka the realmshaper engine) and they asked me if I had time to play a game. I did and it was a lot of fun. Aaaand afterwards I put this together and started modding it a bit...

 

That is a good deal! I am eyeing out that piece of terrain as well... such an awesome addition to the battlefield or army display
Looking forward to it's completion.

Grrr, !mrahil