Re: Totzro's paintlog
@lord tsunami: Ok, I think I gonna pick some up when they got em in stock again in this town.
I agree that the saurus looks a tiny bit large on the cold one. Your comment made me think if I should try and put skinks on them instead, hm....
@T`hinker`er: Thanks!
Ya, too late for voices now
I think mixing old with new is the way to do it. I think it's great to break up a new model with some old parts, kind of reminding people and myself the history of these models and this game (and a time when WD had some substance...).
I've no plan on doing mold of my figurines so I don't think the glue will be a problem.
The cold one has proven some problem for me, I'm not sure in which colors I should paint it, but it's a great figure.
On another note people, how does your sculpting tools look like? I've got some for clay sculpting and the one from GW. but I find that one to be a bit thick and i don't like that it's so blunt. I'm thinking about getting some dentist tools.
@danbot: Thank you very much! I've seen your skinks, they look very good!
I'll be glad to share my process, I don't have any proper pictures of every step, but I'll get you a quick rundown and maybe when I paint my next batch I can do a proper tutorial out of it
For the skin:
I start with a basecoat of macharius solar orange over a white prime. I love these foundation colors.
Then I give it a wash of baal red (lot's of baal red) this gives me my basic shading.
Next comes a highlight with blazing orange. After that I give a fine highlight of golden sun, in this step I alternate of drybrushing and painting fine lines of highlight.
Over that comes a similar step of bleached bone, focusing mainly on the face.
After that I give the whole model a wash of baal red again to blend the colors, after that I go in and paint some defining highlights with bone and yellow. Plus I work on spots I think I don't got enough shadows with baal red and mechrite red.
That's how I make my skink skin, on the saurus I start with a basecoat of mechrite red to get a slighter darker skin tone. I don't mix any of my colors, I know I could get some better results but I want to get the same result on every model and therefor no mixing - the washes does that for me.
And for the jade:
Start with a basecoat of orkhide shade, give it a wash of thrakka green. Then I follow up with a drybrush of goblin green (very little paint on the brush) and then a drybrush of rotting flesh. Last I give some fine painted highlights of rotting flesh, follow that up with a wash and do some fine highlighting on the hardest edges.
Ske scales are: enchanted blue, asurmen blue, hawk turqoise, ice blue and bleached bone.
As you see, the "key" to my success is washes, washes and washes
Here's a pic after the first wash of baal red:
See ya!
