Golden Demon WIP - 2012

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I'm going to go a little bit against my usual tradition and start a WIP with some of the progress of my Golden Demon entry for this year. True to form I'm farther behind than I hoped I would be, but I'm starting to claw back time and actually put primer on the base this morning before I went to work (I thought I'd not get that done until tomorrow evening.

I probably won't put up all of my WIP shots - don't want to spoil the surprise after all!




Front View (Primed):


Rear View (Primed):

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As you might be able to work out from the foot print, I'm going to have a rather chunky dreadnought on the top ;)
 
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cassar said:
rather snazzy base, look forward to seeing more :)
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Cheers! It's the most ambitious base I've attempted and kept having to remind myself that "less is more" :) Looking at it this morning (after the primer has properly dried) I realised that the sculpy has loads of finger/thumb prints in it that weren't really visible until some paint was applied. So before work I grabbed my dremel bits and was sanding/grinding those off. I did actually manage to get that done and some more primer on without making myself late for work - however I didn't have time to pack lunch so going to be starving come mid-day :p
 
TheDrescher

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Looking forward to seeing more! I feel your pain with the hobby running over those little things like food. I met some friends at the Chicago bunker for lunch and overlooked the fact that I left my wallet at the office. So much for lunch, or miniatures for that matter!
 
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Only a small update though I have got more bits done. I've finally managed to crack open the paint pots and start applying paint onto things!



This is what the base currently looks like - the lower half has had a number of layers but I'm not happy with it yet as there is little texture and depth. Although I want to keep it fairly muted it's looking poor. With hind sight I should have textured the sculpey more - a lot more. It needed bits sanded into interesting shapes and the actual column should have looked like piled up slate. But hey, I've learned for next time!

Looking at it in the cold daylight I need to push the shadows down, go more severe with the grey highlight (which will blend it into the top part better) and apply a few selective layers of drybrush onto it. I'd currently only give the lower part 5/10 :)
 
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TheDrescher said:
Looking forward to seeing more! I feel your pain with the hobby running over those little things like food. I met some friends at the Chicago bunker for lunch and overlooked the fact that I left my wallet at the office. So much for lunch, or miniatures for that matter!
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Yeah real life can be a right bummer ;) I've actually got a vat of chilli cooking in the slow cooker for tea this evening so that I can have as little interruption as possible - though the other half did say she'll be home earlier than normal (she normally doesn't get back until 8.45pm).
 
RuneBrush

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Finally got enough done to justify a WIP update - I can't believe that in ten days this ended up on page 3! Brilliant we're getting as many WIP's as we have :D Just wish I could check them at work without people looking over my shoulder ;)


Sorry about the quality, I snapped it before I left for work (running late - never!). I've begun to pick out all of the elements on the top (still a lot to do). The depth/shadows have been washed out a little with the light that is about 6" above it, but it will ultimately have snow scatter applied over the top so this will create extra depth.


Although I'm not completely satisfied on the lower part of the base, it's much more blended than it was previously. A gentle drybrush using one of the new GW drybrush paints has also picked out some of the detail on the stones. I've just realised that you can actually see more of the layers on the top from this angle! There is also a clue in this picture as to what is going on the top ;)


A new thing for people to critique on :) This alone has taken 30+ hours as you have to wait for each layer of green stuff to cure before you can apply the next for fear of mashing a thumb into it. However it's quite therapeutic and you can do it in front of the telly.


Overall I'm still on target to get this done in time for games day. I'm not completely happy when some of the bits, but other elements I'm fairly chuffed with. For example the lower part of the base doesn't have enough texture however conversely the top bit has turned out really well.
 
Willdorling

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Looks great. you can always texture up the lower part of the base if you so wish. Like the greenstuff - very intricate ;-)

Will
 
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SkelettetS said:
aouh, 30 hours! damn, thats slow :D looks ace though what i can see.
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30 hours! Wow, you GD painters have much more patience thn us mere mortals. It is realy looking good and i like the base. And if this base is your idea of "less is more" i would love to see a base were you threw everything at it :D
 
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Thanks all.

SkelettetS said:
aouh, 30 hours! damn, thats slow :D looks ace though what i can see.
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Yeah, 30 hours is a little mad considering it's not finished yet :( What the pic doesn't do is put the thing into scale - it's about 3" long in all ;) I'll try and get a photo of it next to mini which does go a fair way to explain the time it's taking! CSI is on tonight so I should get another patch done.


Willdorling said:
Looks great. you can always texture up the lower part of the base if you so wish. Like the greenstuff - very intricate ;-)
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I'll see what sort of time I've got left over when Games Day gets a bit closer. The drybrush and extra layers have helped to break up the lower part and give it a bit more depth so I might be able to get away with it. I suppose it's like a lot of things, your harshest critic is yourself!


KruleBear said:
30 hours! Wow, you GD painters have much more patience thn us mere mortals. It is realy looking good and i like the base. And if this base is your idea of "less is more" i would love to see a base were you threw everything at it :D
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Thanks :) Lol, you should see the little pot of 'bits' that never made it onto the base, I had random offcuts, cogs, wire, bits of model - and that's without the pots of resin pieces!


Dexterity Jones said:
Salamander dread?
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On the right track. It's not Salamander though

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I spent some of last night undoing some of the adornments I'd added onto one of the other elements and re-undercoating that, plus have got the main base colour applied and some of the accent colours. The photo's I snapped this morning aren't actually good enough quality so sadly no progress pics.

Where I am stuck is what colour to paint the large pipe on the top of the base. Grey with heavy dirt weathering is the most logical but considering the rest of the base is grey could be a bit "bland overload".
 
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As promised, here is a picture of the cloak (with extra patch of fur) with a mini next to it for scale. It is rather large ;)




Also here is a quick snap of the knee pads. The red one actually looks much better in the flesh and has shading and highlighting, but the paint has gone on so matte it's not reflecting any light to show quite how much contrast there is :s The grey one hasn't been shaded yet.

 
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I'm glad I now have more free time coming up - can't keep being shoved onto page 3! In fairness since the last post I have got quite a bit done, despite spending 5 days in a larp field and the subsequent few days of recovery.

The base is now looking like this:



I got the pipe to this stage last night, there is one patch of rust I want to tweak as it's too large (towards the back), but that shouldn't be too much of a pain to fix. I'm not sure what colour to paint the 'exploded' end of the pipe (suggestions?).

I'm currently toying with doing a similar effect I've used on the pipe on the two pieces of metal behind the stonework on the right, but using different colours (not sure what though).

You can just see my slight mess up to the front-right of the pipe. I wanted to try and 'muddy up' the grey colour, so put some isoprop alcohol on a small patch and then sprinkled on some mud coloured pigment. However what I had forgotten in my haste was that as I'd not applied any gloss varnish all that happened was the pigment turned into paint and just coloured all of the grey brown... I have since lightly reapplied the base grey colour and quite like the end result. So when I gloss varnish the piece for the oil washes, I'll apply the mud pigments at that point, which should mean that I can push them around a little more easily. I can then just touch up the greys which should give quite a nice variance of colour. I think... I hope... :)
 
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I love where this is going, it's looking great. I think if I were painting it I would be tempted to do the blasted end of the pipe in dark metallics; silver and maybe some deep bronze for a couple of the things coming out the end just to break up the silver a bit then do glazes of black, smoke, and browns, to have it looked burned and melted. Could go all the way to the white and have a really strong transition where it changes from bare metal to burnt and warped paint peeling off.

Shakes
 
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