PØ's wip log, to force me to finish stuff, and well, help
Hola, I've been a very long time lurker here. I posted some pictures 10-15 years ago sometime on this page on a different account, and figured I'd finally post some more.
I started out in this hobby some 20 years ago (at the age of 10-12 or so), but I've had very long breaks (many years). I just started up again with painting approximately a year ago now after a break of I don't know how long. I think maybe as long as 10 years.
But I've been back at it now, and the landscape has changed tremendously. I've been devouring video tutorials and articles from various painters of a quantity of several a day, and experimenting and learning. My skill and style changes with every project I do, as I draw inspiration from the techniques and styles of other painters.
With this project log I hope to gain further motivation to keep on painting and improve. I'm grateful for any criticism or pointers I may get, and I hope to be able to ask the community here for help with the direction some of my projects should go.
My current project is the ogroid thaumaturge from the silver tower box set. I didn't really like the colour scheme for him the 'eavy metal team chose for him. While their paintjob of course is excellent I wanted to try for something more gritty and evil looking.
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The colours used for the different areas, over a black undercoat:
Flesh tones:
Basecoat tanned flesh (old gw colour)
Heavy nuln oil wash
Rapply tanned
Highlight with tallarn flesh (old gw foundation paint)
I mixed in some white to the tallarn flesh in some areas as well and highlighted further
Glaze purple ink to create some colour variation (vallejo game colour)
Glaze dark sea blue into the deep recesses (vallejo model colour)
Black areas:
Black, I think i've used both abaddon black and black from vallejo model colour here. I used more and more model colour black throughout the project
Highlight with thinned mix of model colour black and dark sea blue, then pure dark sea blue, then dark sea blue and white mixed in, then I glazed the recesses with thinned black again and the rest with thinned dark sea blue
Runes:
I painted them all white first since the colour I want as the basecoat is lugganath orange (gw edge paint), which has quite weak pigment, then well... lugganath orange
After that I did a wash with bloodletter, which I also glazed on the sides of the runes to give some glowy appearance.
The glow wasn't strong enough, so I glazed on some blood red (old gw paint) as well on the edges of the runes
Finally I rehighlighted in the middle of some of the runes with lugganath orange.
Truth be told I was quite clumsy here and managed to get overspill of lugganath orange on some areas again and again, and had to touch up over and over with both the surrounding colours and reapply red...
His eyes were painted the same way as the runes. I think I'll use the same colours for the flames on his staff as well, but I might have to modify them to look darker... not sure.
The hornes and hooves:
Basecoat adeptus battlegrey (gw old foundation paint, dark / mid grey)
Wash nuln oil
Mix of model colour black and game colour white in various mixes from dark to light to highlight them, then a glaze of a dark version of this mix over in the end. Also I glazed washed some black into some areas in the edges to create some sort of outline.
The bronze:
Balthazar gold basecoat
Nuln oil wash
Reapply balthazar gold as first highlight
Vallejo game colour bronze highlight in a couple of thinned layers
Bronze mixed with game air silver as final highlights.
Nihilakh oxide to create some oxidation effect. I was unsure whether or not to do this as I was quite happy with how it looked already. But yolo >.<
The cloth:
Rakarth flesh basecoat
Seraphim sepia wash, then I started layering on thinned game colour white as the wash was still wet for the highlights.
I added blood spatters with blood for the blood god on the bottom of it.
I realized it was way too bright compared to the rest of the miniature, so I ended up darkening it with glazes of agrax earthshade, nuln oil and dark sea blue mixed with glaze medium. Actually I think glaze medium is used in nearly every glaze I do. I think the colour I ended up with looks reasonable next to the rest of it. The goal was to paint something that could at some point have been white, but was dirtied down.
The paintjob isn't the smoothest I've done, but thus far I'm fairly happy with it and the colour choices I've made.
I'm considering what colours will work for the handle of his staff, maybe something close to the cloth?
Hola, I've been a very long time lurker here. I posted some pictures 10-15 years ago sometime on this page on a different account, and figured I'd finally post some more.
I started out in this hobby some 20 years ago (at the age of 10-12 or so), but I've had very long breaks (many years). I just started up again with painting approximately a year ago now after a break of I don't know how long. I think maybe as long as 10 years.
But I've been back at it now, and the landscape has changed tremendously. I've been devouring video tutorials and articles from various painters of a quantity of several a day, and experimenting and learning. My skill and style changes with every project I do, as I draw inspiration from the techniques and styles of other painters.
With this project log I hope to gain further motivation to keep on painting and improve. I'm grateful for any criticism or pointers I may get, and I hope to be able to ask the community here for help with the direction some of my projects should go.
My current project is the ogroid thaumaturge from the silver tower box set. I didn't really like the colour scheme for him the 'eavy metal team chose for him. While their paintjob of course is excellent I wanted to try for something more gritty and evil looking.
View attachment 57720
View attachment 57721
The colours used for the different areas, over a black undercoat:
Flesh tones:
Basecoat tanned flesh (old gw colour)
Heavy nuln oil wash
Rapply tanned
Highlight with tallarn flesh (old gw foundation paint)
I mixed in some white to the tallarn flesh in some areas as well and highlighted further
Glaze purple ink to create some colour variation (vallejo game colour)
Glaze dark sea blue into the deep recesses (vallejo model colour)
Black areas:
Black, I think i've used both abaddon black and black from vallejo model colour here. I used more and more model colour black throughout the project
Highlight with thinned mix of model colour black and dark sea blue, then pure dark sea blue, then dark sea blue and white mixed in, then I glazed the recesses with thinned black again and the rest with thinned dark sea blue
Runes:
I painted them all white first since the colour I want as the basecoat is lugganath orange (gw edge paint), which has quite weak pigment, then well... lugganath orange
After that I did a wash with bloodletter, which I also glazed on the sides of the runes to give some glowy appearance.
The glow wasn't strong enough, so I glazed on some blood red (old gw paint) as well on the edges of the runes
Finally I rehighlighted in the middle of some of the runes with lugganath orange.
Truth be told I was quite clumsy here and managed to get overspill of lugganath orange on some areas again and again, and had to touch up over and over with both the surrounding colours and reapply red...
His eyes were painted the same way as the runes. I think I'll use the same colours for the flames on his staff as well, but I might have to modify them to look darker... not sure.
The hornes and hooves:
Basecoat adeptus battlegrey (gw old foundation paint, dark / mid grey)
Wash nuln oil
Mix of model colour black and game colour white in various mixes from dark to light to highlight them, then a glaze of a dark version of this mix over in the end. Also I glazed washed some black into some areas in the edges to create some sort of outline.
The bronze:
Balthazar gold basecoat
Nuln oil wash
Reapply balthazar gold as first highlight
Vallejo game colour bronze highlight in a couple of thinned layers
Bronze mixed with game air silver as final highlights.
Nihilakh oxide to create some oxidation effect. I was unsure whether or not to do this as I was quite happy with how it looked already. But yolo >.<
The cloth:
Rakarth flesh basecoat
Seraphim sepia wash, then I started layering on thinned game colour white as the wash was still wet for the highlights.
I added blood spatters with blood for the blood god on the bottom of it.
I realized it was way too bright compared to the rest of the miniature, so I ended up darkening it with glazes of agrax earthshade, nuln oil and dark sea blue mixed with glaze medium. Actually I think glaze medium is used in nearly every glaze I do. I think the colour I ended up with looks reasonable next to the rest of it. The goal was to paint something that could at some point have been white, but was dirtied down.
The paintjob isn't the smoothest I've done, but thus far I'm fairly happy with it and the colour choices I've made.
I'm considering what colours will work for the handle of his staff, maybe something close to the cloth?
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