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Blog Ritual's Army - Lizard on Lizard Action (For the Waaaaagh!)

Ritual said:
Copy/pastega from https://ritualminiatures.com/blog/post/fabius-bile-repainted

I finished Fabius Bile last week as an entry for the local GW's painting competition and wanted to cover off how I achieved some of the effects and finishes - mostly for my own records as there's a good chance I'll never remember how I got here otherwise.

Fabius was a 1995 metal model given to me by a friend at work, he had played Warhammer in his early teens and by his own admission hadn't cared much for the painting side of things.

This is how Fabius came to me...



And this is how he ended up...



I won't cover off the process of how I stripped the paint and rebuilt him using Abaddon's sword, I posted pics of the work in progress in a few different places so you've probably seen them already.

Instead I'm going to go over a few elements of the model and how I achieved them.



First up is the leather on his coat, for starters I primed this model all in white. Then I used varying colours of browns in different, thin layers on the different patches.

The colours look mismatched until I washed them all in Agrax Earthshade which really pulled them all together.

I used a dry brush and stippled on darker and lighter shades on each panel to give the leather a textured effect. Finally I did a pretty rough and thin highlight around the edges to add some wearing and add to the dirty feel of it.



The sword was a pretty rough wet blend, washed in both orange and red. I wanted the staff to act as a mirror to the colours of the sword, so added a touch of red to some bronze and used that as the staff colour - again very thin coats so it didn't look too uniform over the white base colour.

The green slime was done by laying multiple light greens and yellows with layers of gloss varnish and a green glaze along the edges to keep it shiny.

The skin was probably my favourite revelation during painting this model - over the white prime I just used Reikland Fleshshade in a thinned down mixture, using a heavier wash in the shadowed areas. I didn't bother doing anything else to it, the skin looked washed out and had enough shadow that I thought it was fine as is.



I wanted the green to mirror above and below, like the red mirrors left to right, so I went for all green goo in the viles on his back piece.

I believe the original had a white "empty space" above the goo - I didn't think that looked right at all, so went with black. I edged the green with a lighter colour and used the same to add some subtle bubbles in the goo. This was all varnished using gloss varnish to make it look like glass.

The metal was reasonably standard, I just used Nuln Oil generously where I would normally opt for something a little more subtle. I think this really added to the grimy feel of the miniature.

Overall I am very happy with how this guy turned out, it was my first attempt at painting anything 40k related and it was very different to what I was used to painting Age of Sigmar bits, the tech was a nice change.

So there we have it, Fabius Bile restored to his rightful glory... As always; feedback is greatly appreciated.
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Excellent detailing and precise painting, only one thing I can comment on and that is his bottom lip, lips are a slightly darker colour than skin but this is a miniscule detail and I would not go back in and do it.

As I said excellent finishing, I really like your painting style and I was wondering if you have the Angel Giraldez books?
 
Crowsfoot said:
Excellent detailing and precise painting, only one thing I can comment on and that is his bottom lip, lips are a slightly darker colour than skin but this is a miniscule detail and I would not go back in and do it.

As I said excellent finishing, I really like your painting style and I was wondering if you have the Angel Giraldez books?
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I do not... Can't find them on his website either?
 
Ritual said:
I do not... Can't find them on his website either?
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I got them off ebay, he covers everything and combines airbrush/brush so might be good for you but be warned this guy is seriously good and will make you feel bad about your painting.
 
Crowsfoot said:
I got them off ebay, he covers everything and combines airbrush/brush so might be good for you but be warned this guy is seriously good and will make you feel bad about your painting.
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Might look them up at some point after Deathwatch are done. Going to work on some freehand for the Dreadnaught as I have a month until the next painting competition and the theme is "customised vehicles" - so feel a nice paint job on a Dreadnaught counts.
 
Meh, pricey as heck on eBay - not sure I'd get anything from them that I couldn't work out myself / learn online...
 
Ritual said:
Meh, pricey as heck on eBay - not sure I'd get anything from them that I couldn't work out myself / learn online...
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True but I prefer to have a book on my desk to flick through, I've not used my airbrush productively yet so I'm hoping to get that sorted soon.
 
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Magnetised to the base. Arms not glued so I can change them/magnetise properly later. Plain panels selected for this freehand stuff I have planned....


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Based dried, sealed and cleaned up... These guys are good to go for their priming now.

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Arms aren't glued so I can remove them completely for painting purposes. Going to paint all the shoulder pads separately. I need a good method for attaching some kind of holding-stick type thing to them... Some bent garden wire superglued on perhaps?

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I've done a bitz swap for a couple of fur cloaks for the guys who are joining from the space wolves for a minor conversion, so the rest are in various stages of incompleteness... I'll work through them tonight and get as many done and ready to go as I can.
 
BeardyGecko said:
I use paperclips with superglue and stick that in a cork for little fiddly bits, if they are bigger I drill them first so the paperclip sticks better.
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Do you find that sticks well enough? I should give that a go... If I can find a cork or something to stick it into.

Or a paperclip for that matter.
 
yeah, paperclip and superglue to an unseen part works great for shoulderpads
 
The deathwatch look good so far, what chapters are they going to wind up being?
 
Ritual said:
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It's a work in progress... I think the eye socket needs to be bigger.
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Potentially. If you're going for realism, it probably needs to be wider vertically, but if you're going for stylistic - it looks great the way it is.

Edit: it looks angular and menacing forboding/angry.
 
deer riffs said:
Potentially. If you're going for realism, it probably needs to be wider vertically, but if you're going for stylistic - it looks great the way it is.

Edit: it looks angular and menacing forboding/angry.
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Thanks, I was going for angry rather than rounded, so maybe I'll leave it as it is and just touch it up a little bit tonight before starting on the other panel.
 
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Tidied it up and blocked in the gold and silver...
 
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