Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Grand Experiment Begins: Painting the horsemen movement tray

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OK, boys and girls, aliens, etc., it is time to see if my idea of using foam core as bases will work!

The whole idea behind this system is to see if I can get a more close fitting and level surface on which to paint my usual Tomb Kings base designs.  The previous system of baked sculpey sheets attached to regular GW bases gets really tough when you get beyond chariot and monster sized bases.  Lining up all those little 20mm pieces is almost impossible!

In case you have not see the original photo of the foam core, here it is:

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I was able to get everything cut and magnetized, with nice precise edges.  Looking good!  However, I had to worry about warping all the pieces of foam core with acrylic paint, so I chose to use the same magnetic primer that worked so well on the army board.  It is oil based, and the meant no warping!

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Here are the basic horses placed on the bases to set the pin holes in the bases...
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Now it's time to start painting!

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You can already see the all too familiar shapes start to emerge from the darkness...

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I continue to bring out the demon faces and the skulls...

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Working more light colors into the shapes, trying to make sure that at least some of this will be visible when all the miniatures are placed on the bases :-)

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At this point, I am already trying to get some of the skulls to be quite faded, while others are allowed to be more prominent.
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Continuing to lighten colors.  Also, I am leaving the skeletal remains, the rim of the tray, and the sphinx statue for later..
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Now I go back into the designs with very dark paint, and cut out more precise shapes...
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Starting to place the eyes with the fluorescent paint:
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Defining the eyes even more, and highlighting the brightest skulls:
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This phase of the painting is nearly done.  I will go back into that once I have some color reference next to the skeletal remains and outer edge...
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Stay Tuned!!

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the tutorial, now I see how I've been going about basing the wrong way.

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  2. Thank you for all these tutoriels, but can you tell us what colors you use to paint the bases please

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    1. Some of the colors used were GW Incubi darkness, Vallejo dark sea blue, Emerald, green sky, and a few other off whites.

      I also used some GW naggaroth night mixed with black for carving out some of the darkest areas.

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  3. Thank you very much.

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