Wolf's Bane, part 2

This is the second of the four new Wereshewolves from Raging Heroes.  All of them were quite amazing to paint, allowing me to try all kinds of interesting new color combinations.

The first wolf that I posted was in mostly cooler colors, as if to represent the figure walking around in moonlight.  As you know, I like to try new things all the time, so warm colors carry the day for this wereshewolf.

The dramatic posing means that I can do some very fun basing as well.  Bark and branch is a perfect method for matching the bits of rock that come attached to most of the set, and telling a story with the base.

Of course, the next wereshewolf is painted in yet another color scheme, so stay tuned!!

A Ghost of the Past

Here's one more Army of the Dead!

It's very fun to put the finishing touches on some of these figures, which have been sitting in a box nearly 80% painted for a very long time.

Just like the first couple of figures, I tried to vary the glowing colors.  Some sections are more greenish, but others tinted more blue.

I also added the semi-opaque glaze of the rusty brown shade, which was mixed with Vallejo flesh wash to get it down into all the crevices.

For an eternally cursed army, they are a lot of fun!

He's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/222092875238?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Gurrier Du Senegal

This is the first color test figure of the Bolt Action Senegalese, which will form the backbone of the French army.

The Tirailleur Senegalaise will be riding in Laffley transports and Lorraine Carriers.

There are a few uniform elements that I am hoping to be able to capture, but we shall see if the sculpts allow that...

Stay tuned for much more!!

Blood Brother

Here's one more peek at the last of the Dark Eldar Grotesques.

Just as with the previous versions, a lot of experiments were conducted.  Among these were some blood effects, where I combined Reaper liner paints and clear paints with Secret Weapon water effects.  This made even the much darker blood colors a little more transparent, but also more like a gel.

Balancing all these new blood effects with the use of the fluorescent paints for the first time was also very entertaining!

You can see a preview of one of my Painting Pyramid video series here.  This episode, called "Bloody Mess", covers a variety of techniques which I learned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAu51YMREA

Frodo!

I recall painting this little Frodo figure many years ago... probably 2003, long before I even heard of Object Source Lighting.

It was very fun to try him again all these years later, armed with the fluorescent paints!

Sting definitely packs way more punch when it's glowing!!

He's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/222092877347?

The Objects of your Attention

Here's another fun objective marker from The Edge Awakening series.  This was part of a recent kickstarter campaign.

There were a few goals in terms of placing colors.  First, on the crystals, I wanted to have at least some variety in the shades of green... not simply a difference of lights and darks.

To do this quickly, I made sure that I had some teal blue on hand to mix in with the Reaper Green liner paint, which I had been using for the darkest shading.

Fluorescent green was mixed in with Reaper Clear Green at times for the mid tones, while Reaper Clear Yellow was mixed with the fluorescent green for the lightest.

Some of the green had to be placed on the rock formation as well, so that would not look too out of place.  Some purplish gray was added as a subtle contrast, and as a way to make the rocks look more interesting than a mass of gray!

With so much dramatic shading happening on those crystals, the rocks needed to have almost an equal amount of contrast along with them.  However, staying with very muted tones by comparison allows the crystals to have a different texture, and be brighter as a result.

The collection of Objective Markers continues to build!!

Red Dawn

This is another interesting case of rapidly changing color palettes.  Not by choice... I had to use an entirely different set of colors to create the same effects because I didn't have the usual colors at hand.

I fact, I think I have used at least 4 very different combinations on all of these Red Box Games figures, including for the snow, bases, etc.

The approaches have also been radically different.  Initially, I was mixing Reaper liner paints with Vallejo pale grey wash.  Situations changed, and I ended up mixing a seafoam green with combinations of Reaper brown and blue liner.

That changed again, and I used a sky blue in combination with midnight blue and an ivory color.

Since the heart of all these different combinations if founded in the Shaded Basecoat, I can keep all these massively different approaches to the same series of figures looking the same.

After all, the Shaded Basecoat technique was originally created to paint my armies!