Blog Gotta Paint Em' All!

I painted most of the day yesterday and this is where I got to. I think the gold is close to done? I don't love the square "braces" or whatever you want to call them around the outer rings, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with how the NMM is looking. I'm going to glaze some yellow back into most of it to boost the saturation, I already started doing that on some areas. And I want to reinforce some shadows on the metal with dark brown, but definitely coming down the home stretch!

Question, does the gold read as metal?

 

Holy cow what a beauty!!
The gold definitely looks like metal to me.
In the fourth picture a bit less though, but not sure if those are completely done.

The first picture is just a stunning sight

I can't wait to see the Toad sitting there

Keep up the freaking amazing work

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Really nice! How did you apply the orange cracks? Doesnt seem to be a wash, so really thing brush?

 

Yeah I struggled a lot with the braces making them look right. This was my first ever attempt at NMM so I learned a lot, I'll do some more research on flat surfaces next time I try it. Thanks so much tho for the encouragement!

 

Yupp, that was Gryphound Orange contrast paint applied into the cracks, then highlighted the edges of the cracks to make it pop more

 

Looks really good!

The gold most definitely reads as metal to me as well

 

Beautiful! Definitely reads as metallic. I'd say that maybe in some areas it could do with being a tiny bit brighter on the sharpest edges but it looks really good now.

 

Thank you! What areas were you thinking?

 

I think specifically on the brace parts on the floating rings. As I said though, they look great as they are now though

 

I agree, they're my least favorite part. I'll fiddle with them a bit more and see what I can do.

 

So... it's done! I painted all the gems around the whole model, went back over some of the NMM to brighten it up, painted the chains/metal on the stone pillar and did a rust effect on it, and did the little lizards and frogs. I painted one yellow as an homage to my original slann. There's some touchup work to do, and I have to paint the skulls inside the stone pillar, but I'll do those when I do the base after the rest of the model is painted. Next up... the attendant.

 

Wowza! Absolutely stunning work!

 

A really amazing paint job!

 

Back at it with some work on the attendant. Going for the classic "turquoise albino" look for this guy, a fitting spawning for the prestigious rank of Lord Kroak's personal attendant!

 

Got a decent amount of painting in today, just gotta do the eyes and finish the jade spear head and then it's onto the NMM gold and the attendant will be done. I'll have to see how he looks next to kroak when kroak is done, hopefully the attendant doesn't pop too much.

 

Didn't get a lot of painting is this week, had a lot going on with work, but managed to get some time in this evening. Got the spear head and the eyes done, I might be able to start on the gold tomorrow!

 

Awesome

 

Amazing detail!! those eyes are gorgeous
Great work

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Got the NMM gold done between yesterday and today! The attendant is pretty much done other than the couple Gems he has, then it's onto Kroak!