A lot of hot air?

Any time I get to do non standard flesh tones, it is always fun!  When freehand is also involved... even better!!

Here is another one of those Fenryll figures from back in the day.  This time it is an Air Genasi.

Contrasting those cooler fleshtones against the much warmer armor and clothing was a blast.

More pieces and parts...

OK folks... wrapping up another long day.

I thought you might like to see a few images of another Venom as it is painted in individual sections and parts.  It is so much easier this way!

This is the last cockpit I will have to paint.  Of course, I learned the best way to do it just as I don't need to do them any more... :-)

The base!  While these have an obvious decorative purpose, they also act as counterweights.  All the sculpey under the panel weighs much more than the Venom itself, which will keep the whole thing from falling over on any sort of tilted or rough terrain.

Gunner!

And then a few shots of the various pieces.

Still lots more to do... weathering, dullcoate, glosscoate, and the canopy, etc.

Guess who was all excited this morning!

Somebody stopped by to drop off eggs...

Don't get Boar-ed. An interesting ride for a dwarf

Something else from Fenryll.  A dwarf hero on a boar, which I think is pretty unusual for that line.  

You can also see that I did a bit of mosaic tile action here.  This was a more of a blend with the marble chunks than what you saw me do as a base for the Razorwing.  Once again, we have a painting project from years ago.

During this period, I did not 'age' the tile as much as I do now.  There was a point where I realized that I can't break up the tiles and marble without staining it at least a little bit :-)

The face on this figure was very nicely sculpted.  One never knows what sort of approach a company might take with the dwarves.  Sometimes those faces are not always so fantastic for painting, as the sculptor tries to distinguish his style of dwarf perhaps. :-)

A Bird's eye view...

Today we have the top views of the finished Venom.  These show the freehand details a bit better. :-)

With each vehicle that is completed, this overall pattern becomes more and more interesting.

Seeing them all together for the first time will certainly be a treat!  I'm looking forward to that!

I was glad that these 'half canopies' were provided with the venom kits, since the full versions really have a tendency to hide most of the pilot and cockpit...

So, more to come!

Stay tuned :-)

A captive audience...

Another set of minis from the Fenryll archive.  I wonder if these are even available any more.  As with the previous Fenryll figures, I am pretty sure these were painted in 2005/06.

I could have used  a bunch of these captives for the Dark Eldar  :-)

The face that launched a thousand ships...

Wouldn't you go mess up a crummy Imperial world if this lady told you to?

She is Asharah, the Archon of my Dark Eldar army.  She is also a special character figure from Raging Heroes (you can see the blog post on her here: http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/03/introducing-ashara-archon-of-fire-talons.html

These images show the Razorwing prior to the freehand.  I used a variety of filbert brushes, which helped me to paint all the surfaces and shading rapidly.  While its flat shape allows you to cover a lot of area quickly, the rounded edges almost act like an airbrush if handled correctly!

It works well on the more square and boxy space marine vehicles, but  that brush truly excels on organic shapes such as this.  Plus, it still has a chisel edge, which means that you can even do a fair amount of details with it!

I kept the ventral section a bit darker than the dorsal, which would be catching more light...

On to the freehand!  You have already seen this design on the Grotesues, a jetbike, and some Venoms.  It was even more of a challenge here, just by the sheer surface area that needed to be covered.  Keeping a variety and randomness to the patterns can be tricky, since we humans like to arrange things into nice, orderly objects.

Since vanity is definitely a part of the Dark Eldar, I wanted to include images of  the Archon on the key vehicles, just to let everyone know who is boss. :-)

The freehand begins with a darker orange, which establishes the basic parameters.  I made sure to feather out the edges at this stage.

Now you can see that I went progressively lighter and lighter with the patterns, almost creating patterns within patterns.

I also tried to reflect some of the freehand tattoos from the Wyches onto the fins and elevators.

Another view of Asharah...

And some of the other freehand bits you have seen on other vehicles such as the Blood Star...

And the flaming skull.  The next stage is to do some streaks of soot and get some scorch marks on this with the weathering powders.  But, I need to get some dullcoate spray first!

I also have to finish off the cyberwolf hero from Raging Heroes... stay tuned!

More deepest Africa from Fenryll

One more of the Fenryll ladies for you on this very late evening...