James Wappel Miniature Painting

Monday, February 24, 2014

Hoist the banner!

Well, it's not exactly the 12th man flag, but it gets the team spirit going! Especially when their god just won't let them be spirits.

This was a very complex piece to paint, given all the crazy color transitions everywhere. The corpses, the standard bearer, the skulls, and so on.

Lots of green! That meant a lot of balancing between warm and cool, saturated and unsaturated greens and so on.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Hard Hats

Every so often, I tried to splice in some different head gear for the Greatsword unit, which keeps growing rank after rank. :-)

I wanted to go with more of the hats, since that was an area where I could work in the black of the "black and yellow" color scheme.

I also figured that could make these more of a decorative element throughout the unit, breaking up the mass of floppy hats!

Not many more to go!!!

Now it's time for those Storm Bolter toting Sisters! It is actually much more fun to paint these guns than the standard bolters. The lines tend to be a little cleaner, and there are more defined shapes.

Also, you have the targeting laser sights and such, which means a spot of fluoreecent paint and OSL here and there! You know how much I like glowy things.

The usual with the freehand on the cloaks. Start out with middle tones, work the highlights, and then use glazes in the shadow areas to not just darken it, but unify it a little more with the background/surrounding colors, such as the dark grey robe.

These views let you see the base a little more... you remember that post!

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Fun with color contrasts and flesh tones

This is Sinoei, a very cool Reaper figure that I used for the Tanned Skin tone video. It really was perfect.

It also allowed me to delve into a bit of color fun, as I used the slightly cooler magenta color to 'warm up' the skin tones a bit. I was then able to use a little turquoise in the marble to set off the magenta.

I believe that I may have experimented with a few of the Badger airbrush paints on the test figure. Those can be used with regular brushes as well. :-)