Saturday, July 7, 2012

Painting the Hierotitan: early stages

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Today we hit the road to drop off some items left over from Adepticon at Marty & Kimberly's place.  It did offer me a chance to show them the army, but also have a bigger work space to do the painting of the titan!

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I knew that I wanted this to look like my Ushabti, which you have seen me warming up on the last few days! I also wanted to have a lot of the Stalker color scheme reflected in this piece as well.  It started out by establishing where the green colors would be, as well as the golds and browns.

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Then I started putting in some of the metal colors, and continuing to work the greens.

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At this point, it was time to work on some of the "flesh" tones, which were done in much the same way as the stalkers.  I began with a very dark purple, then a nauseating blue type color, and then some grayed down ultramarine blue.

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Here is the Titan on the army board to see how it is looking against everything else.  I was very happy to see how its brighter colors set the walls further back, as they are so muted in comparison!  A little "false perspective".  Ha!

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Guinevere decided to make an unusual daytime appearance...
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Now I am working rapidly in all areas, such as the flesh tones, the weapon, and the armor.

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More shots on the army board!
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Now I work more and more of the fluorescent paints, just like the ones I used on the recent Ushabti:
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Here is where I had to stop for the day.  I will switch to some of the small items, like Tomb decorations, shields, etc.  now that it is very dark...

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More Ushabti!

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You can never have too many of these guys... mostly because they get wiped out pretty easily.  Just don't tell them that! :-)

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Here he is with his buddy:
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