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<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">A’right! Time for the next in the series of Carnivean: The Adventure!</span></p> <p>So, my friend wants the Carnivean to be colored, essentially, the way you see him on the box. So that makes his skin white, white, WHITE. Not Pale Elf Flesh. WHITE. I even read up on how Privateer Press paints their Carniveans: They use pure white for the skin and then shade with an ice blue. Now, I’ve painted an albino before, but this would be quite different. First, there was still a hint of life in the albino’s cheeks -- I used a tiny wash of warm (but light!) fleshtone to counter the cold of her near-white skin. The Carnivean? Pure white, none of this “near-white” stuff. Second, and more important, the albino? Tiny little human figure. The Carnivean? BIG. And LOTS of flesh to paint.<br /></p> <p>Yanno? I didn’t realize until I had the Carnivean in my hand: this guy has so much skin showing! I thought he was mostly armor! I was a little concerned: my previous attempts to paint large areas of skin had been patchy. Fortunately, it worked for the mini in question. But I wanted this to be a QUALITY mini. I wanted to do such a good job on the Carnivean that I could enter it into the Strategicon contest at the end of this month.<br /></p> <p>...Admittedly, I was surprised in the past to see such a small turnout on the Strategicon contest. But hey, if I could at least compete against a few good folks, I could maybe pick up a few good pointers, etc. All in all, ALWAYS a good thing to go to a competition.<br /></p> <p>Anyway. <br /></p> <p>So yeah, I wanted to do a good job on the Carnivean here! So I steeled myself, grabbed a few sizes of brushes, and set in!<br /></p> <p>And let me tell you, I have learned a lesson!<br /></p> <p>You see, I went to San Diego Comic-Con this year -- my first year going. And while there, lo and behold, Privateer Press had a booth! It was a great opportunity to see some of their professionally-painted miniatures up close. Yay study time!<br /></p> <p>Now here’s the thing. While I was sniffing around their paints, they had one of their representatives giving me a sales pitch on the paints.<br /></p> <p>I heard: “Blah blah blah paint blah blah blah coverage blah blah so much better than Games Workshop blah blah blah sales pitch blah blah.”<br /></p> <p>Now, I probably *could* have made do with my Games Workshop paints. I need to use ‘em! I have 40 colors AND the wash set AND the basecoat set. I really didn’t need the paint scheme for Legion of Everblight.<br /></p> <p>But I figured, what the heck. They had the little box set for the Legion of Everblight (of which the Carnivean is a member), and my DM friend wanted the Carnivean to look as close as possible to the figure on the box.<br /></p> <p>So I snagged it. Why not?<br /></p> <p>The moment of truth: the actual painting over the blacklayer. How would Privateer Press’s “Formula P3” paint match up with the already-impressive Games Workshop basecoat paints?<br /></p> <p>...Oh Emm Eff Gee.<br /></p> <p>I mean, really.<br /></p> <p>REALLY.<br /></p> <p>GOOD.<br /></p> <p>PAINTS.<br /></p> <p>I mean.....wow.<br /></p> <p>One layer. Boom. The end.<br /></p> <p>WATERED DOWN.<br /></p> <p>P3 is my Master now.<br /></p> <p>(You can quote me, Privateer Press!)<br /></p> <p>The paint is smooth and goes on easily, whether watered down or not. Tons of pigment in the paint, so literally one drop of paint will give you a lot to work with.<br /></p> <p>Yeow. I’m sold.<br /></p> <p>So! Basecoat went on smoothly, and then, just to mix it up a little, I decided I’d stray maybe a TINY bit from the box.<br /></p> <p>I took GW’s wash series, and gave the basecoat a good wash of dark blue, and then of purple in the under-areas (pits, under the legs). From there, I highlighted in steps, finishing with a subtle white, typically using a drybrushing technique, but with the brush a liiiiittle more loaded than your typical “drybrush”.<br /></p> <p>The result was a good mix of shading (P3 dry-blends like a dream), but it was mostly blue! I had to go over it again to brighten him up so that he was white!<br /></p> <p>So that’s what I did tonight. I brought the white back out, so he’s mostly a white critter with plenty of blue shading.</p> <p><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Pictures!</span></p> <p>Oh, and again, bear with me: I still don’t have my lightcube, nor a third light source yet, so you’ll see a lot of red and brown reflections of light. I assure you, there is not a single drop of red on the mini!<br /></p> <p><a href="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/?action=view¤t=Carnivean8-181.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/Carnivean8-181.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/?action=view¤t=Carnivean8-182.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/Carnivean8-182.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/?action=view¤t=Carnivean8-183.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/Carnivean8-183.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/?action=view¤t=Carnivean8-184.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/Carnivean8-184.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/?action=view¤t=Carnivean8-185.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/Carnivean8-185.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/?action=view¤t=Carnivean8-186.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg133/Witchwater_album/Carnivean/Carnivean8-186.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p> <p><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">More as it happens!</span></p>
