Starting up again...small.

[Joek]

It\'s been around 3 months since I last took up the brush - far too long a time. Finally, the stars were in alignment and I managed to spend a very enjoyable couple of hours painting up the first of the new plastic Grotz.

Nothing showy, just something to get the brush in. They are lovely figures though, so I\'ll be doing a few more to get the brush back into full working order!

 

[cleen X]

Nice! How was the skin and the red bandana done?

 

[kaltori]

I\'ve been messing around with a few older gretchen models myself, and was pretty pleased with my results, until I saw these. :O

I too would like to know how you did the skin if it isn\'t too much trouble. I have lots and lots and lots of orcs (fantasy and 40k) and goblins and such to paint, and need as many recipes for green skin as I can get!

Brilliantly done though.

 

[Joek]

Sorry for the delay in responding - I lost my own thread!

The green was thus:

Base coat of Knarloc Green

1st wash with the new GW Green wash
2nd wash with the new GW Purple wash

Up from there I used a green by Coat D\'arms paints called Bogey Green, and I\'m not too sure what the GW equivalent would be.

Doesn\'t really matter though - Goblin green would do the job just as much. All it\'s doing is lighting up major areas.

Next highlight - goblin green and scorpian green mix (50/50 split)

Next highlight goblin green and scorpian green (30/70) mix

Next highlight scorpian green

Finally, I took a very pale blue (mixed with some white) and just put spots of it on the figure.

I should mention that between most of those stages I\'d do thin glazes of green to keep everything as...er...green as possible!

Sounds a lot, but they\'re so small it doesn\'t really take long.

Anyways, they\'re now multiplying...4 down, 6 to go (and then spend a bit more time and effort on the ork boss chap - nice figure that).

 

[Brother Captain]

These are great! Mine are still sitting unasembled in their box.

I\'ll be waiting to see the rest of them along with their friendly Ork buddy. I think that\'ll motivate me to paint mine at last.

It\'s nice you posted the paint recipe as well. I may...borow some of your ideas.

 

[Backstabbeth]

heck of a job... i have been a goblin fan for a long long tim and you have done these gretchin very well. I too am a fan of the skin color. I have been resisting buying the GW foundation paints cause im not quite sure what the difference is and if they are just for painting armies faster or have use in display painting.

The outcome for you was obviously pretty positive.


Cheers.
Tim

 

[kaltori]

Thank you very much for the skin formula! I\'ll be sure to put it to use very soon. I have 0 art background so thinking to use colors like purple and blue in conjunction with colors like green escapes me, until I have someone tell me to do it.

Thank you again! They look fantastic!

 

[Joek]

Originally posted by Backstabbeth
heck of a job... i have been a goblin fan for a long long tim and you have done these gretchin very well. I too am a fan of the skin color. I have been resisting buying the GW foundation paints cause im not quite sure what the difference is and if they are just for painting armies faster or have use in display painting.

The outcome for you was obviously pretty positive.


Cheers.
Tim

I think the foundation paints are great, but I tend to use them because of the colours themselves, not really because of their coverage or anything like that. The base of the goblins could just as easily have been a standard green colour - I always treat a base coat as almost like another primer. It gives me the indicator of what colours I need where, but after washes and highlights that original colour is almost unnoticeable really!

 

[mickc22]

these are all looking pretty good, keep it up


I agree with what you are saying about the foundation paints, treat it as a colored primer much easier to work from

 

[Gapow]

These look absolutely awesome!! I\'ve just got some myself for use in my Space Crusade project (replacing the old mini\'s for new) and I was struggling with painting the skin on these and my Orks, so thanks for sharing your technique, I\'ll have to give it a try, would GW snot green be a replacement for your bogey green or would goblin green be better? What did you use for the bronze colour on the guns? p.s I\'ve put the head with the fur rimmed hat on the same body, I think that one looks ace!

 

[Joek]

Originally posted by Gapow
These look absolutely awesome!! I\'ve just got some myself for use in my Space Crusade project (replacing the old mini\'s for new) and I was struggling with painting the skin on these and my Orks, so thanks for sharing your technique, I\'ll have to give it a try, would GW snot green be a replacement for your bogey green or would goblin green be better?

Snot green is pretty much exactly the same colour (after a quick check on the GW website), so I\'d go with that!

What did you use for the bronze colour on the guns?

Seeing as I find bronze such a bugger to put on, I painted those areas with a brown, then layer on the bronze. Then pop on a thin brown wash, followed by a purple one. Just highlight up with bronze and then mitril silver for the edges. Have to say I didn\'t spend a lot of time on the metals really - they\'re very basic, but they do the job!

p.s I\'ve put the head with the fur rimmed hat on the same body, I think that one looks ace!

Strangely, after I put the head on, I noticed they used the same one on the box as well. It\'s about the only one which seemed to belong together!

 

[Joek]

Fifth one done. Kind of looking forward to getting them done now!

 

[Joek]

Eight down, two to go.

 

[In Chigh P.I.]

Got these minis today myself, now i appreciate just how small they are!!

Looking great here, im looking forward to seeing your runtherd too