Wednesday 18 March 2020

Ogor Gluttons (painting WIP from yesterweek)

Here are the WIP pics and some notes about painting the Ogor Gluttons I posted yesterday.

After the black-grey-white spray undercoat, I was eager to get painting the lovely heaps of skin on the Ogors. I was going to try some wet blending on those areas, as well as on their trousers. Might have been easier to do the metals first, but I thought the vast areas of skin would dominate the models, and determine how any other areas should look, so maybe it was good idea to start from that.

The recipe for skin tones (that I really like a lot) here was:
* Basecoat with Barbarian Flesh.
* Heavy wash of Flesh Wash, immediately followed by
* wet blended layers of more Barbarian Flesh and Elfic Flesh for highlights.
* Blue Tone diluted with dirty water to shade on the recess (gonna try Lahmian Medium next time).
* Bonewhite and Pale Flesh for highlights.
Little bit of touch-ups here and there, going back and forth when wet blending. Otherwise VERY simple procedure, and an absolute joy to execute on the huge areas of skin on these models.

The metals I decided to shade with greens for a change (having hundreds of miniatures with rusty brown/orange weapons). So Athonian Camoshade, Plaguebearer Flesh and Waywatcher Green were utilized.

At some point I noticed I rather liked the bases, mostly just bare white from the spray undercoating. So to define them a bit more I gave the bases some grey washes and Praxeti White drybrushes.

What else? The trousers were a bit mystery, and still are. Tried some colours (Nazdreg Yellow and Ork Flesh green, along with Basilicanum Grey ones for comparison) on them, wet blended with Pale Grey Blue for highlights. Too crap results. Kind of liked the Nazdreg Yellow ones. Drybrushed and shaded with something maybe. Don't know. For the end results I suppose it's important to have some Khaki drybrushed for powdery highlights and Umber Wash to dull down the trousers and shoes. Underneath those, some thick and heavy coats of something and something are needed. Just gotta figure out a fast and satisfactory method for that.

I'm also VERY dubious about including all the pics with just paint pots over and over again.  Looks and feels stupid. But hey, saves a LOT of time from notekeeping and writing. Could be helpful to know what paints were used (at least for myself). So I'll keep including them for now, at least for the Work-In-Progress posts where I'm trying to figure things out. No need to keep repeating later, when the schemes, paints and methods have been decided, I guess.

Pic of the miniatures is always first, followed by the paints used.


Tuesday 17 March 2020

Mournfang Pack WIP

I really like the basic plastic Ogor miniatures. Their size and lack of useless details is just spot on. Same goes for these toy animals. The lamb got blinders from Ogor swords/knives/toothpicks.


Ogor Gluttons painted

Finished these little foodies last friday. Will post some WIPs and notes later, didn't have time to go through those pics yet. Really like how the skin tones turned out. The snowy white bases were not my initial plan, but after painting other parts of the miniatures I thought the bare white undercoat still left on the bases looked rather nice, so I just enhanced that a bit with some subtle grey washes and Praxeti White drybrushes. Really nice!

I hope everyone is safe and healthy.


Monday 9 March 2020

Imperial Fists standard bearer (painting WIP pt.2)

Didn't have time to upload these WIP's before, but here we go! So this was the final result, this and this being the earlier stages.

I remember getting bored of taking pics of those stupid little paint pots and brushes over and over again. And they look stupid, too. The reason I started doing them in the first place was mainly for taking notes of those things as fast and easy and accurate as possible. No fiddling around with hundreds of pages of hastily scribed text covered in coffee stains. "Fourth coat of slightly watered Medium Grey allover... Too grey! Try Ash Grey. Drybrush Pale Grey Blue. Wash with Light Grey. Stormvermin Fur on recess... Grey not working, try browns next... Old Vermin Fur maybe??? Now coffee. Actually, try coffee as a wash."

I don't know.