I can't take the credit for Vampirella's skin idea. I borrowed the Idea from Zab's anime version, which I love.
I have been working on my kingdom death stuff. Most of this stuff is really really awesome and although I have not played the actual game yet, all the people who are say really good things. I don't like to play games with unpainted mini's so I have been working on assembling the survivors and monsters and I have finished painting the white lion monster. He is the starting monster to fight and hunt down, and way way later you can fight a legendary golden lion. This influenced how I painted him. This guy had a lot of gap issues also.
I started by priming him black with stynelrez primer. As most of you who have read my thread know, I HATE badgers paint line, LOVE the airbrushes. But this stuff is awesome for airbrush primer. Then I base coated him army painter white. After that dried I painted him with Warcolours grey blue 3. I then shaded him down with blue grey 4, then 5 for most of his under body. I then went back with blue grey 3. Then I started highlighting with blue grey 2 then 1. After all this was nice and dry I switched from my 105 patriot to the Krome and started hitting the raised areas lightly with warcolours white. I went from an upper direction instead of going straight on. I liked how this was going and made his "skin" look kind of ghosty and whitish without going to a full white. I then sealed everything with a matte varnish. I forgot to take pics of these steps but here was the result:
Now I wanted to make his mane a bit different. So here is where the golden lion came in. I used a paint brush here on out. I base coated his mane and tail tip with reapers buckskin pale.
I then washed all the parts with GW' seraphim sepia, which to me seems like a reddish brown.
I liked where this was going so after that was nice and dry, I then grabbed the buckskin pale and started picking out the strands of hair. After that I picked out more parts of the hairs with Vallejo's model air Radome Tan:
I then started working on his "face". I painted his eyes fluorescent red. After I get him sealed I will hit them again. I wasn't sure how to do the mouth. So i waved the magic google fu wand and found pics of actual white lions. Most of them had black lips and pinkish parts in their inner mouths. So i painted his "lips' army painter black, then painted everything in his mouth with Warcolours pink 2 and his nose. Then after that was dried I gave it a wash of GW's Druchi violet.
I painted the claws and later the teeth with the first dark brown I seen on my table, VMA Nato Brown.
I then painted them mostly Game color Bone white. Then i gave them a wash of GW's aggrax earth shade.
Then I grabbed some AP white and just touched the tips and edges:
Good enough for gaming:
What do you folks think?
On to the Screaming Antelope I go....