First off, thank you for the interest that you've shown in my return to the hobby! It really means a lot and keeps me motivated and invested.
So yeah, not having a few days with my son really sucked hard. That said, I used the time stuck in my room to build and paint a lot of stuff, some of which I'll reveal below.
So happy you're back Looshkin! Your posts have always been such an inspiration for me. Those Bloodbowl minis tell such a great story. I have to agree that orange paint is typically the one of the most difficult shades to use, except when you're using Ryza Rust, but that doesn't count being a technical paint.
Looking forward to seeing more paint jobs, but also love that you're sharing other aspects of your life, even though its not always on a positive note.
Thank you DoW; I do wonder if anyone reads me blithering on about nonsense, but I'll keep going as long as I don't annoy anyone too much!
Nice Team Halloween!
I'm about to get started on the Doom Lords chaos team myself this weekend!
I for one am defo looking forward to seeing your take on Blood Bowl. Let us know how you get on.
Is that a black metal on the necron?
Nope. Blue. I used the old Forgeworld Air paint (Grey Knight Steel or something), followed by a silver dry brush, followed by a thin blue wash to accentuate the colour.
Speaking of which...these guys definitely went a bit off-piste for me. I wanted to do a blue and orange colour scheme that was easy and repeatable. I monstered through these, with the longest step working up the orange with the airbrush...fortunat
ely I had a lot in the Netflix backlog, including the Irishman, which is ball-achingly long and slow and tbh, quite dull (and I normally Scorsese films)....so I went head down and did all of the orange in 1 go.
I never want to do that much orange again in 1 sitting in my life. Horrible.
So, for a start, I know that I've missed a wash on the blade arm...I did the blade last, which was a mistake; however, at the time, I didn't know what colour I would do blades. As it turned out, the brass areas plus orange took the colour palette to a place that was waaaayyyyy too warm, so the blue blades were a necessity. That followed with the blue tinged base to cool the model further.
This little guy taught me the benefits of using the airbrush to the light-emitting areas, as you can be deliberately sloppy, resulting in a soft OSL effect.
Scarabs are quite fun to paint.
If I were painting these guys to actually use, rather than just reducing my pile of shame, I would work more on the blades, but I'm happy with the basic effect I've achieved on these. Good minis too.
A bit more soft OSL. I liked how using the airbrush brought this model to life a bit.
The whole gang. At some stage I will go back and paint all the cables and bits and pieces, but not today. They're fine, and that's all I was going for. Fine.
So that's it. That's the update.
I would have had more, but at the eleventh hour I messed up glueing on canopies to a Falcon and a Fire Prism, so I need to buy replacements...whic
h seem to be very thin on the ground! Otherwise they are 95% complete. I also have a War Walker which is 85% complete, so updates at the weekend, hopefully!
Thanks for popping by!