Pennies from heaven

The metal painting continued, this time with one of my favorite Raging Heroes characters.  As always, they are sculpted supremely well, and the casting is fantastic!  It makes creating a video like this one a much more pleasant task :-)

They always begin with that shaded basecoat...

And then get those all important glazes and washes.  A whole row of them from Secret Weapon.  They have a kickstarter under way right now, I believe... Angry Sheep?

Once those glazes, shades and tints are complete, the mini certainly looks different!

But wait, there's more!  Time for the Verdigris effect!!!!!!!1

And then complete.

I can't say thank you enough to the folks at Raging Heroes.  There would not be any of these videos without their skill, kindness and support!!

Yellow Alert

Time to get the most from you yellows!

This was one of the specifically requested video topics.  It seems like everyone had a rough time with yellow.

Yellow can actually be lots of fun, especially when you 'expand the range' of yellows beyond  the typical sunburst yellow that comes to mind right off the bat.

Some leaves on the base as a starting exercise...

Even the glazes ran the gamut of yellow!

A sketch of the amber gemstone...

Finis!

So, lots of information presented once again, hopefully in a digestible form.

With props!

Feelin' the blues?

I was definitely looking forward to the "Color Theory" videos, where I tackle various colors, and try to show how to get a wider range of colors within each 'family'.  This time around, it was blue!

I tried to demonstrate how to make warm and cool versions of blue... less saturated, more saturated, etc., and how to play these off of each other.

A few color swatches were made, such as this one.

This view gives you a hint at how many different blues I was trying to show...

No painting session is complete without those glazes!!

The Secret Weapon blue wash was a particular treat.  That is going to be seeing a lot of action in the future!  It is another one of the more intense wash colors that they have produced, and it's fantastic when you mix it with normal paint.

Nearing completion.  You can see the palette with all those paints mixed in with the wash colors.

And then there were two.

I can't wait for you to see some of the swatches from the yellow and green videos. :-)

Shiny...

Yes, she is.  Reaper Yvonne once again.

Time for another fun sketch!

A handy guide to your SE-NMM.  Actually, I have not gotten to do much of this technique over the last few years.  Part of it has to do with not painting as many Grey Knights ;-)

I also do much more weathering than I had previously used.

I guess that makes these rarer opportunities to work this technique more fun!

With all the darker glazes complete, it was time to do lots of work to finalize where those horizon lines would go, and get all the reflected light in the shadow areas.  That can be more complex to manage with SE-NMM.

I think the Forgeworld Empire handgunners was the last time I did SE-NMM en masse.

Let the metals continue!!

The Steel Curtain...

There was a cluster of NMM videos recently, and I was able to snap a few images along the way.  These side sketches became more and more important as time went by...

It was very cool to have these to refer to myself :-)

She's got her shaded basecoat, so we know what's coming next...

Glazes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mixing regular colors with those glazes is a blast.

Glazing done, more details...

Metals!

And sisters...

This would make a very fun D&D character, that's for sure.  Lots of attitude.

Chillin' out in Khemri

So, what do you do when the levels of stress are already way beyond the point where you start tossing your own feces around?  You 'escape' by making a subpar unit for a wooden spoon army :-)

Yes, it just keeps getting crazier!  I never made a Tomb Guard unit for the Silver Pharaoh, even though a bunch of figures had been prepped.

There are some caveats here.  The figures were filed and prepped at Convention committee meetings and the like, while most of the movement tray stuff was done while making more sculpey for video shoots.

I was baking tile after tile of sculpey anyway, so a few extra 20mm sized squares were not a big deal.  In addition, I was trying to do some early tests on making a future video (or more) on movement trays.

The challenge was to make them all fit together, along with the border pieces.  You can check out the rest of the Tomb Kings posts to see what I did with all my basing on that army.

They start out fitting together all right, but the process of getting them glued onto the 20mm bases can make things go wonky... especially when you are trying to do bigger units!

In this case, I only had so many Tomb Guard.  To fill in, I wanted to have some glowing crystal pyramids flanking a statue of the false god (the Tzeentch god which tainted the army to begin with).

I used some leftover pieces of pink foam and foam board to build things up... I will also be magnetizing everything...

He was originally going to be seated, but he will be standing instead.  The wings have to clear the pyramids, and the feet would have gotten in the way as well.

Stay tuned for more!