Warpwolf Stalker & NMM

Did some work on the WW Stalker.. my first ever attempt at NMM technique (non-metallic metal), which i used on the sword.  You can see on his armor i just went w/ regular metallic paints.  After seeing this picture, i've gone back and cleaned up the lower, shaded area of the blade and made the blend much smoother.

The blade is just black and white with various mixes to get the varying grays.  The gold detail work is a various mix of brown, orange, yellow, and white.  No science on this one, i just mixed to what felt like the right color to get the blend.



Pretty happy with how it came out for a first attempt at the technique.  I've seen tons of posts asking about how to do it, so i learned from their mistakes  .  I'm not super thrilled on the silver part of the sword, but don't really feel like redoing it and its good enough for table-top lol

PureBlood Warpwolf (Part 1)

Got some progress on this guy a few weeks ago, but have forgotten to keep up with the gaming blog.  The lichen greenery isn't going to stay, at least not in its current form.. i was just mocking up some greenery to get an idea of what i wanted to do with it.   This was my first beast i tested the top down light gray primer to preshade/highlight the model.  I'm going to start doing this with my models that will have some lighter/brighter colors.  Keeps the advantage of black primer with a little of the advantage of white primer while blocking out the shading/highlights for me ahead of time.   Hopefully it saves me a bunch of time over the gnarlhorn.

Stone Keeper - Shifting Stones UA (Part 1)

Did a little work on my stonekeeper this weekend.  Got him put together and some ideas formulating for a base. I really love this model, so i want its base to do it justice.  My idea is to have him levitating with some rocks floating beneath him sculpted with GreenStuff and foam (wire hidden by vines and foliage).  Want him to be kind of hidden in a forest to signify his stealth ability.  A stony protrusion from a lush forest ground (lichen, vines, grass and mossy flock), and a tree (leaves done up with lichen, flock, and clump foliage).

Here's the mockup without any of the greenery or sculpting put on yet.

Gnarlhorn Satyr (Part 5)

Been awhile since i put an update up... haven't made a whole ton of progress on my army.  I have all but finished the gnarlhorn though.  All that's left is to seal/varnish him and finish the base with some flock/grass/lichen.   Here's the finished paint job.  Unfortunately my phone camera washed out a lot of the contrast and you can't see the dark shadows and bright highlights, but you get the general idea.

Gnarlhorn Satyr (Part 4) and Kromac Update

Ok.. tonight i spent most of my time working on my foam trays.. but i did get a little painting done.  I started laying down some of the metallics on my gnarlhorn's armor, and i started practicing the layering technique on the blues on both gnarly and Kromac.   The blends are smoother on the gnarlhorn, but the highlights are kindy funky (random light sources? lol).  Gonna hafta fix those...

As you can see i haven't finished painting all the metallics.. half of him still needs done.  What you see here is VGC gunmetal with black ink.  I'll highlight up with plain gunmetal and some chainmail into silver/glazemedium.  His textured hair regions are still a big sore spot with me.  Haven't quite got the color i want yet, still experimenting.. i finally found an image on google that perfectly depicts the color i want.. orangutan.jpg (the goatee).  Some of the kind folks @ ppforums gave me some tips on getting that color so i'll try that tomorrow perhaps.

KROMAC!!!

Kromacs blends aren't quite as smooth, but they look much more natural.   The only parts of him i've painted is the blue parts.  The rest was painted by someone else, but i plan on painting over most of it.  Or at least touching it up.. was too lazy to strip the whole model, and besides.. it was actually a pretty good paint job.. i'll just enhance it up a little :D

Gnarlhorn Satyr (Part 3)

Didn't get much done on him.. just a couple coats of the blue armor inlay to finish that basecoat.  The raised parts of the armor I plan on doing with Chainmail VGC and highlighting up... unless i magically get good at NMM before i get to that part lol.

This blue was a mix of  VGC stormy blue and VGC imperial blue.  Matches pretty good to P3's dark blue.

Still trying to decide what color i'm going to do his fur/hair in.. I'd really like to blend it into a brown-orange-black scheme you see on some goats, with black horns, but not sure that color will go with my flesh color.  Black would look best, but i'm so set on black horns, not sure if i'd have enough contrast doing both in black.

Undecided on the loincloth as well... black and blue is my army's theme.. i'm either going to do black with a blue gem, or blue with an orange gem.  Orange looks awesome with blue and black and i think i'm gonna tie in oranges to my models for more contrast and pop.  Only on very subtle things tho.. like that tiny belt gem.. parts of weapons..

Anyway.. here's the pics:

Small Update: Practicing layers on highlights (pKrueger)

Just a small update before bed.  I got a chance to practice my layering technique on krueg's blue parts tonight.  It was fun, and offers a lot more control and realism over drybrushing.  Pics below.. Not bad, but i think I need a bit more color depth to the layers.  All my highlights look almost the same color, even tho i progressed up adding more white to the mixture with each layer, and applied in smaller spots to the brightest point.  Or at least that's what i tried to do lol.  One nice thing about posting these pictures, is the super zoomed view lets me see a close up view of where i should be putting highlights, and where i shouldn't.  I need to get one of those super magifiers for when i'm painting....  I always notice the wrong placement of highlights on these pics, but not while i'm painting!! details are too small! lol

Gnarlhorn Satyr (Part 2)

Ok, got the gnarlhorn's flesh basecoat and shading done.  I'll do the highlights after i get everything else basecoated.  Don't wanna have to redo the whole process if i mess up on the armor/surrounding pieces.  The more i work on this guy, the more he's becoming my favorite Circle model.  He's so badass looking, and i love the pose i have him in.

Here's my progress

As always, now that i see the super close up pictures, i see some areas i need to fix.  Probably hit those up tomorrow.  Few areas that need a couple more layers of shading applied

Big consolidated update

Got the Gnarlhorn Satyr fixed so he doesn't fall over and can actually get base-to-base with shit.  Also got him primed and the base's first coat on.  Ignore the white spots.. i didn't feel like tinting my gesso and i needed to touch up a few spots my spray missed or spots that will get handled alot (don't want it rubbing off to the metal).

Kromac the Ravenous!!
Got beast form Kromac all assembled and greenstuff'd.  Here he is in all his glory, ready for primer:

His arms my look a little unnaturally twisted back in that frontal angle, but that's because i have the front of his base propped up so you can see it better.  I'm contemplating basing him with a hacked up trooper, his front foot planted on top the decapitated body; the head in an empty spot on the base, and using a trick where you mix a certain glue/epoxy with gory colored paints to get a stringy gore effect to put on one of his axes with some gore dripping off.  I'll have to see if i can get a convincing effect with the stuff i have, otherwise i'll forgo that idea and just grass/flock him.


Pureblood Warpwolf progress:
Sculpted one of his missing spikes, got one more on the front to do.. these are bitch btw... having a hell of a time getting them for some reason.  Not too happy about how this one ended up, but its better than my previous attempts and i'm tired of fkin with them! lol

Furry banana hammock finished up!

All that's left on him is to sculpt his last spike and prime him.  I have his base pretty much done, which just has a rock made of cork for his front arm to be braced against, like he's climbed up to howl at the moon  8)

Right now i'm at a dilemma with 2 figs nicely painted figs i got used for dirt cheap (almost 75% off msrp).. paint over the spots that don't match my color scheme or strip them clean and start from scratch.. Kromac and a Blackclad Wayfarer:

Kromac looks pretty badass, i would just have to paint over all the gold and green, changing them to silver and blue.. problem is the greens are in some tricky spots and i'd probably fawk up other areas.. the blackclad is pretty close to what i want to paint him colorwise, except for the gold needs to be silver and he's lacking almost any highlighting, so i'd have to go over most of the model and do that.

Other updates.. I have 2 sets of Shifting stones almost done (just need to redo their glow effect to blue) and I have my bloodtrackers (10) all primed and ready for paint. Krueger is still just sitting on my table primed ready for paint (still debating on color layout for him)...

pKruegs

Kreuger primed and based on cork:

Seriously considering converting him to have a wicker hat like the lightning dudes on Big Trouble Little China and modeling on some lighting to his spear.. Might be a little ambitious for my amateur skills tho lol.

Still debating on color layouts on him...