BloodFather's Axis of Chaos

[Bailey03]

I really like the color transitions in the face. The purple shadows are a nice choice for this figure. He's looking really good so far. My advice on the skin is don't worry about the veins and scars at this point. Get the main shadows in and then you can add more subtle ones for those or just bring them out through glazes.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Hey, thanks Bailey! I am about to add the next level of shading to it. But before I do this, I want to show some better, more focused pics under natural lighting:

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

For my own records and references, I need to take a moment to write down what I used in the 1st level of shading. Who knows, someone might also find it interesting, especially if you are a recipe nut like me. In general, I went from warm to cold from top to bottom. On top it's an orangey red, then it transitions to a true red, to a red-violet, to pure purple. All of these mixed and very unsaturated. At the end of this whole skin painting process is when I'll add the saturated reds and purples (like what is seen on the face somewhat). The second level of shading will include more browns, but also each area will go colder the deeper in the cracks the shadows go. Example: the orangey red at the top will get redder in the cracks. The reds in the middle will get more red violet in the cracks. The col purple at the bottom will go darker purple, more towards blue. But it the first level of shading is as follows:

-Bestigor Flesh with VMC brown sand and a touch of Bugman's Glow (from here on this mix referred to as BS&BG)
-VMC Red Leather with BS&BG
-VGC Gorey Red with BS&BG
-VGC Gorey Red and GW Xereus Purple with BS&BG
-Xereus Purple with BS&BG
-Naggaroth Night with BS&BG

Basecoat: BS&BG, with a bit more than a touch of the BG. It's 1:5 BS:BG on the base coat. And of course as mentioned earlier, no priming.

 

[Kretcher]

Skin is looking nice, will be intresting to see your progress on this one.

 

[Gandalf the Grey]

Lovely skin tones, a colour scheme I would have never thought of, but then again I don't paint fantasy like this, something I need to luck into I think.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Hey, thanks fellas. Really, Simon makes it so fun to paint his minis. I can't express how much I enjoy them. Just take a good look at the level of detail on these next pics! These are the next level of shadows. Deeper gory red or purple or both mixed with either Doombull Brown (a reddish brown) or Rhinox Hide (a dark brown). I think Ill add one more level of shadows, just pure browns in some of the darkest areas. And glazing will come later, including on the veins and the scar tissue. BOO YA GAH!!!

 

[Zab]

Geez! Strong comeback Get yourself a little bit of soft fabric from the store and a small cheap-ass toolbox from master craft to lock this guy up in when you are not around so he doesn't get eaten :smirk:

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Thank you my brotha!! Oh, I've learned my lesson. My figures stay up high, very high, all of the time. It didn't help that I used to tease Dahlia with the mini that she ate, poking her nose with the axe and pulling it away just before she could bite it. Yeah, I know, I had it coming...

 

[BloodASmedium]

What goliath ...who's that ..goliath I don't know anything bout that all I know is this canoble I'm doing is looking like the knew estate best painted mini I've done...lol again I'll say it..I told you so.. and ...also I'll say and you were worried....great great combacks you see bud it's not the models m8ty it's that talent you have that brings em to life and btw this will be your best....until the one after that...I'm proud of you my brotha proud as a parent..now this how you get back on the horse...with Lance in hand..

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Spank you smelly much, BaM. Good to be back. It is a very fun figure to paint. Very happy with the minis I've had the opportunity to paint lately. I've done two from a sculptor's personal range, and with Gokan on the way that'll be another one from a personal range. That's the way to go! I think, for experience's sake, that I need to paint a big ugly monster soon. Awhile back I considered getting the Raging Heroes Manticore with Sphinx head. It comes with the riders legs attached, so I'll likely scratch build/kit bash a new rider. Definitely use Scale75's Unnatural skin tone paint set on it. Anyway...random musings like this probably make this thread a hard one to follow. Apologies.

• Added led a few layers of highlight to Cannibal. Looking yummy thus far. I really have no idea how to paint the metal around his waist. Capitalize on my recently acquired NMM copper skills? Copper and silver accents? All gold? All gold and the devil's head is silver? Or maybe red with silver accents and a gold demon head? Help...

 

[Bailey03]

Raging heroes has some cool stuff. When they start their dark elf kickstarter it's going to be very tempting to join in.

I'd go with dark armor on cannibal. Like a black armor base with silver accents. Or a deep blood red with silver accents. I think something like that would look good.

 

[Demihuman]

Whoa Hanibals skin looks really good in that last picture. I would go for dark armor too but leaning more toward very dark brown with gold highlights. I think the raise details on on the belt would look awesome done gold against a nice brown background on the panel.

 

[Digganob]

Oh I can't wait for you to start the manticore. That is going to look godly.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Whoa Hanibals skin looks really good in that last picture. I would go for dark armor too but leaning more toward very dark brown with gold highlights. I think the raise details on on the belt would look awesome done gold against a nice brown background on the panel.

Thanks friend. The last round of highlighting added a great deal of depth and dimensionality to the figure, if I must say so meself. I think I'll go even lighter and even darker in some places. Because contrast...

When you ask for brown, it makes me want to go with a copper background with gold trim. Or maybe a bronze background with gold trim. Yeah...that sounds cool to me. Never done bronze before, though. I'll have to look at Sprocket's recipe for this and then see if it's feasible. Hmmm....

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Oh I can't wait for you to start the manticore. That is going to look godly.

Thank you bro. I've been wanting to tackle it for the longest time. It's been between this and the carmine dragon from Forgelord, or Tamurkhan on Bile Toad or whatever from FW. Tho the latter has been discontinued, as well as a ton of other fantasy stuff from FW. The mammoth is gone, one of the Empire Knights is gone-whom I totally planned on buying. Very disappointing. I really want to get a Forgeworld piece soon, but not so sure what to get.

The Manticore will have a reddish brown hue to his skin. I can really picture in my head, which is why I decided to make the purchase. Every painter needs to do a great beast at some point, right?

For Crystal Brush, I really want to paint something special. Something Fairy Tale looking. Along the lines of the Sandman sculpt on P&P. Something that is significant not because of some badass weaponry, but charming because of its magical, imaginative luster. I have been busy scouring the Internet for this, but I am coming up short. There are these guys.....

http://thefairytalegames.com/minis/

Who are pretty freakin' cool but they are very much WIP and have been for a long time.

 

[Digganob]

Oh wow. Those are awesome. You will do very well at CB no matter what you do me thinks.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Another option is this super epic Godly out of control piece by the legendary PK King:

 

[Digganob]

YES! YES! YES! That one please!

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

lol, it's intimidating to me. I have meant to tell you to look into the workof PK King. Take a look at Sivouplait on here, Dig. He does a lot of the PK kits. Excellent work. A whole other level of mini sculpting and painting with that duo.

 

[Digganob]

In the famous words of wise master Zab. "Suck it up buttercup!" Haha. If anyone can conquer that beast, you can. Not to mention with your skills and a sculpt like that you would probably win the world...or every competition on it. I say go for it and show it who's boss, though looking at it he might show your wallet why he is the beast here. Lol thanks for recommending pkking to me. Definatly going to check out his stuff now.