dogfacedboy uk1
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Right here we go then, latest bit of work to show off. First up I decided to have a go at painting one of my own sculpts so I emailed off to the folks at Grey Matter and got myself the rat assassin (entitled "In The Shadows"). This sculpt was inspired by the range of forgeworld busts especially the dwarf, orc and of course the stormvermin. I always wanted these but as they are out of production so I decided to sculpt my own versions. Mickc22 here on CMON did a great WIP on the stormvermin which I followed, I'll post a link at the end to that. Without further ado....
I'll post all the steps I did so those new to all this stuff can see what l did. Everyone else can ignore the drivel and go straight to the pics!
1- Clean resin thoroughly with a short soak in warm soapy water and a toothbrush scrub.
2- No primer was used, sprayed chaos black straight away. We'll see if that comes back and bites me in the arse later.
3- Started with the leather hood as this is the most interesting part for me. Wanted to create a nice leather texture using my usual method which is....
a) painted a solid skull white
b) painted a thin wash of bubonic brown over hood - darker in areas of shadow and thinner in highlight areas. This is the start of the mottling effect
c) Painted a wash of brown ink over entire hood going for a really random patchy, mottled look.
d) Painted a thin wash of bestial brown over the ink and reinforced here and there to start to bringing the colour solid looking. sometimes a use a few different browns as well, just mix it up to mottle it as much as possible.
e) stipple a dry brush with bleach bone over the top and repaint over it to tone down where required.
You will notice some blobby bits - unfortunately i got some air bubbles on whilst doing the washes and no matter how hard i tried i couldn't pop em all before drying so now i have a bit of texture as well
If anyone has a good method for avoiding them let me know - I'm stupid.
This method gets a nice looking leather. The pictures above don't show the finished result yet but demonstrate where its headed well enough.
This is an example of the forgeworld stormvermin, painted absolutely loverly by mickc22 http://coolminiornot.com/217855
I'll post all the steps I did so those new to all this stuff can see what l did. Everyone else can ignore the drivel and go straight to the pics!
1- Clean resin thoroughly with a short soak in warm soapy water and a toothbrush scrub.
2- No primer was used, sprayed chaos black straight away. We'll see if that comes back and bites me in the arse later.
3- Started with the leather hood as this is the most interesting part for me. Wanted to create a nice leather texture using my usual method which is....
a) painted a solid skull white
b) painted a thin wash of bubonic brown over hood - darker in areas of shadow and thinner in highlight areas. This is the start of the mottling effect
c) Painted a wash of brown ink over entire hood going for a really random patchy, mottled look.
d) Painted a thin wash of bestial brown over the ink and reinforced here and there to start to bringing the colour solid looking. sometimes a use a few different browns as well, just mix it up to mottle it as much as possible.
e) stipple a dry brush with bleach bone over the top and repaint over it to tone down where required.
You will notice some blobby bits - unfortunately i got some air bubbles on whilst doing the washes and no matter how hard i tried i couldn't pop em all before drying so now i have a bit of texture as well
If anyone has a good method for avoiding them let me know - I'm stupid. This method gets a nice looking leather. The pictures above don't show the finished result yet but demonstrate where its headed well enough.
This is an example of the forgeworld stormvermin, painted absolutely loverly by mickc22 http://coolminiornot.com/217855
