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.

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