Blog Blackjack's Painting

[blackjack419]

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.

 

[JTSleep]

Welcome and I'm looking forward seeing how you develop. Skinks are great start, as they are really easy to build and paint.

 

[Imrahil]

Interested to see what you will settle on in terms of color scheme and basing

Grrr, !mrahil

 

[skink-a-saurus]

i highly recommend green stuff! Green Stuff World actually have a really nice rolling pin i use for basing

 

[Explodingzeb]

Welcome to Lustria! Looking forward to seeing your skinks

 

[Lord-Marcus]

Welcome!

 

[JTSleep]

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.

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.

 

[blackjack419]

My Skinks have arrived! Assembly to be started!

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

 

[JTSleep]

No wonder it took beating, that is ancient

 

[Lord-Marcus]

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.

 

[blackjack419]

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!

 

[blackjack419]

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.