Blog Ndege's painting and conversion lab - Nuff said!

[tom ndege]

Packed my box for Christmas! First one mini:
Then all:
Only a handful of heroes remains on the field!

 

[tom ndege]

Some sculpting practice I did tonight.. Hope it looks like a face!

 

[tom ndege]

Spended some Christmas money today. Got some skinks... And thanks to @Crowsfoot had to buy this guy and started adding gems and fitted the rider on his back...

Also tried to start making a skink priest with cloak of feathers...

 

[Bracnos]

hay looking good man once i get to my second priest, im going to make a flying version of the model ...i hope

 

[tom ndege]

Did some bashing and green stuffing tonight.
Changed the position of my feather cloak priest:

And made a staff and other stuff for another converted priest:

And a group shot with the original:

Comments critics and tips or good advice are as always very much appreciated...

 

[tom ndege]

So before the party starts I attached the rider to his mount and added a head dress for the dinosaur... And I made some square shields for my spear skinks... Thought it would look good if some of them ran around like roman soldiers... Had some problems with the size but I think with the green one I got it right.

 

[tom ndege]

Got a problem... I want to paint my skink in four different types of color schemes but I can't decide what the fourth shall be like.
I already have blue skinks with purple scales and crest, green skinks and light brown skinks. They are meant to match as units of on color unlike the saurus warriors...

Any suggestions? Was thinking about a red ton...

 

[tom ndege]

Oh! Forgot to ask how you like the weapon of my riders... Might be a little bit to long. What do you think?

 

[tom ndege]

Instead of painting my skinks this evening as planned I tried to rank them up as units... As a result basing seems to become quite part of my army building process... Have a look!
Here I used cork to make the bases...

And here some stuff from the garden.

Quite proud of this solution!

Hope you like it.

 

[tom ndege]

Some feathers... Quite difficult at such small scale...

Bigger is easier

Also the priest got some feathers. Still looking a pit crapy but ok for a first attempt...

 

[Crowsfoot]

Some feathers... Quite difficult at such small scale...
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Bigger is easier
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Also the priest got some feathers. Still looking a pit crapy but ok for a first attempt...
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They look far better than any I could make

I really must start trying to improve on the sculpting front.

 

[little-myth]

Amazing work on the feathers, it will look much greater when the paint is put on, it somehow always makes a difference.

 

[tom ndege]

Thanks people!
@Crowsfoot : Therefore your painting is so much another level compared to mine...

@little-myth : Hope that works. Otherwise I sent that priest to crowsfoot for a good paintjob!

 

[Bracnos]

Dude nice really, mad jelly over your skills

 

[tom ndege]

Another feather... Will try to make the backside tomorrow. Hope it works, like I think it does.

When it does, I'll add it to my carni's headdress...

And here the whole dinosaur. Added a blade at the tail and an extra blade to one of the toes...

More to come, when I'm acclimated to normal working days after the holidays again...

 

[tom ndege]

Could not sleep... So here the backside of the feather... Turned out quite well... I'm satisfied...

To compare the front again... This time without glass bottle.


Will try to sleep now... Looking for a new car tomorrow...

Edit: Oh... And only a few feathers missing on my priest's cloak...

 

[tom ndege]

Did some calculation... When I follow my plans to have four colors of skinks and that for each kind of weapons with a unit size of 15... I'm going to have 8 units of 15... That means 120 skinks to paint and 90 or so to buy... Am I crazy?!

 

[tom ndege]

Well... Making things out of green stuff is a slow process... Sometimes it feels like even trees grow faster than I get things done...
But there's some visible progress on my dinosaur...


What do you think? Is a skink sized feather too much? Don't want him to look like a circus elephant...

 

[Crowsfoot]

Did some calculation... When I follow my plans to have four colors of skinks and that for each kind of weapons with a unit size of 15... I'm going to have 8 units of 15... That means 120 skinks to paint and 90 or so to buy... Am I crazy?!

Nah I have around 80ish and once you start painting them they are pretty quick.

 

[tom ndege]

That's what happens when you read @spawning of Bob 's stories from beginning to the (so far) end... Nearly on week without post...

But there are things I have done...




It's just the undercoat...
And I had some sketch of a stegadon done

So next week some more stuff...