Demihuman
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Well after a couple of rough baby nights I am thinking that I might have to scale back my painting ambition for 2014. 
Canny, you have a baby coming soon right?
Anyways, I am going to work on some more basic projects for now. Here is one of the things I started at the workshop:
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Pretty basic rusty metal base coat: bolt gun metal, washed with vallejo smoke, and then dry brushed a tad with lava orange. Over this I randomly sponged on some frisket mask. Next step was some dark brown ink sprayed on with the AB from 45 degrees below and then yellow from 45 degrees above with some lighter yellow toward the eye hole. The trick to getting the yellow to look nice is using some orange ink through the AB over the yellow. Finally scrape off the mask and it looks like pretty cool battle damage. Now I am going back in with some metallics and smoke on all the bitz.
Also started on a base:
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I decided to push my sculpting skills and whipped up the is green stuff KO'ed Dreadnaught arm... looks pretty good right? Just kidding, I used some instant mold to take a mold from the side of a Dreadnaught I have kicking around and then pressed some greenstuff into it. The "Instamold" stuff is pretty cool. It's not as good a real mold making silicon but it is a lot more convenient to use, especially for stuff like this, where precision is not important. It is less useful for copying small details but it is a great, relatively cheap toy.
I also broke these guys out of the closet of shame:
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Put them on some bases I made last summer. Trying to get them finished so the Kahn has someone to fight. They are on my desk right now. I am trying to finish up the freehand the do some light blue edge highlights on the armor and then I think I am going to poke around with some warm browns in the shadows to make them a little more appealing.
It's fun to go back and work on old stuff. Some things that were super hard then are now much easier.
Canny, you have a baby coming soon right?
Anyways, I am going to work on some more basic projects for now. Here is one of the things I started at the workshop:
View attachment 24873
Pretty basic rusty metal base coat: bolt gun metal, washed with vallejo smoke, and then dry brushed a tad with lava orange. Over this I randomly sponged on some frisket mask. Next step was some dark brown ink sprayed on with the AB from 45 degrees below and then yellow from 45 degrees above with some lighter yellow toward the eye hole. The trick to getting the yellow to look nice is using some orange ink through the AB over the yellow. Finally scrape off the mask and it looks like pretty cool battle damage. Now I am going back in with some metallics and smoke on all the bitz.
Also started on a base:
View attachment 24874
I decided to push my sculpting skills and whipped up the is green stuff KO'ed Dreadnaught arm... looks pretty good right? Just kidding, I used some instant mold to take a mold from the side of a Dreadnaught I have kicking around and then pressed some greenstuff into it. The "Instamold" stuff is pretty cool. It's not as good a real mold making silicon but it is a lot more convenient to use, especially for stuff like this, where precision is not important. It is less useful for copying small details but it is a great, relatively cheap toy.
I also broke these guys out of the closet of shame:
View attachment 24875
Put them on some bases I made last summer. Trying to get them finished so the Kahn has someone to fight. They are on my desk right now. I am trying to finish up the freehand the do some light blue edge highlights on the armor and then I think I am going to poke around with some warm browns in the shadows to make them a little more appealing.
It's fun to go back and work on old stuff. Some things that were super hard then are now much easier.
