Skeleton archers, a few test figures

Well, sorry for the odd looking pictures here, but we are still "on the road".  So, here are a few skeleton archers...




Just 18 more to go!

Painting the Hierotitan: early stages

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!



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.



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



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.



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!





Guinevere decided to make an unusual daytime appearance...


Now I am working rapidly in all areas, such as the flesh tones, the weapon, and the armor.



More shots on the army board!




Now I work more and more of the fluorescent paints, just like the ones I used on the recent Ushabti:




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...

More Ushabti!

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







Here he is with his buddy:

The first Ushabti!

I wanted to finish off some of the great weapon Ushabti before we leave the studio environment tomorrow!  Here is the first one:


I have been looking forward to painting these for many months, since they are some of my Favorite Tomb King miniatures.  I modeled the Hierotitan after these guys. :-)







I chose a different "glowy" color for the eyes, which I was thinking of doing on all the constructs, but it may just be on the Ushabti.  With so much of the bright green on the weaponry, I thought the magenta would be a nice contrast!

Death Liche painted!

OK!  Death Liche is ready to go!





Now that this guy is done, I suppose I will have to give him another try and see if I can pull that combo off! :-)





I had a blast putting the glyphs on the skull, and all the other freehand as well,  This was  a very fun piece!

Now to the Titan!

Tipping the scales... sculpting nearly finished

The last big thing to do on the Titan is the scales.  I have gone through a few designs, depending on what materials I had to work with, and how strong I thought it would be.  It also had to fit a certain dimension, allowing room for all the nearby miniatures on the board, plus it had to be a workable game piece.  I had to make sure that standard figures would be able to get into base contact.

This reduced the size of the scales from the original intent.





There is still a bit of work to be done on the weapon handle, and ther odds and ends here and there.



The colors on this piece when it is painted will likely be very similar to the Ushabti.

Clash of the Titans: Scratch sculpting a Hierotitan

Now that the sculpting process of the Hierotitan is nearly complete, I thought I would do a small set of WIP images before it gets all covered in paint!

Here is the concept sketch of the Titan, done for the art contest at Games Day last year:

That won the Best in Show for the art contest, which was very cool!  It was a nice way to pass the time while all my miniatures were in various contests.

The original armature was made with tin foil, which was then wrapped in Apoxy sculpt for the first few layers.  You can also see the plasticard/polystyrene tubing that I used to create the great weapon...




More recently, I added several more layers of green stuff.  The variations in the green that you see are very specific, in that the more yellow the mixture, the softer the material was, making it easier to sculpt.  By putting more blue into the mix, you are making it hold a better edge.







I also used liquid green stuff to do rapid feathering of rounded surfaces.  It is really handy for such things!







I am working in the scales, which will have to be attached after everything gets painted!