So... there's some painting I've meaning to add here but forgot to... whoops.
So, Laris - still not done. He's looking pretty great, but not quite there yet. I love how his cork "stone" base has come out - Tim's suggestion to use pliers to rip the pieces off came out great - much better than simply cutting them with an x-acto blade. The Druids of Orboros have come along, as has Morvahna and Morraig, but they're still in limbo.
I decided for a change to work on some of Julia's Khador over the weekend, so I pulled out her Devastator and got to work on it. Actually, I pretty much had to start the entire paint job over from scratch, since I wanted the red armor to now match the "official" color scheme I've created for her army. And speaking of scratches...
I found some tutorials online for painting battle-damage and decided this was the perfect 'jack to try them out on. I used the dipped piece of foam sponge method first, but the results were disappointing. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong with it. However, the "scratches" I painted on the armor came out
fantastic - from the right angle, they really DO look like gouges and the like. Since the Behemoth isn't entirely finished, I'm thinking of adding a few more scratches and gouges to his paint job to "batter him up" a bit.
There was ONE small snafu during the whole process... somehow, and I have yet to still figure out
how I did this... I managed to get a giant glob of silver paint on the finished right arm that then dried over a bunch of the details. I wasn't able to wash it off, but a toothpick allowed me to scrape it off enough so that it didn't obscure the details and I was able to paint back over it. Salvaged, but frustrating.
I also used the opportunity to break out the brand-new fine detail brush that Julia convinced me to buy and decided to use it to help paint her Winter Guard Officer. While not finished, much of the work is done, and
dear god, what a
difference that brush makes! I was able to paint the eyes, lips, eyebrows, medals, and wood grain on the rifle stock without any trouble. In fact, I'm almost scared to use the brush, for fear of ruining it and having to find a replacement... I can't wait to post up some pictures of the Officer.
Last night I went ahead and did some more work, this time almost exclusively on Dannon Blythe. This figure is Tim's, the second of two I offered to paint as payment and thanks for the pinning work he did for me (the first was Gerlak Slaughterborn). Tim requested that the colors on Dannon not be bright, her hair be red, and that I could follow the studio scheme/artwork for Blythe if I wanted to. Taking a look at both, I decided I would. It looks like Tim had tried doing some very basic work on her already, and unfortunately the paint on her had obliterated some of the details in her hair and I worried that possibly her face, too. Thankfully the latter wasn't the case, and I was able to paint over the initial work that had already been done, such that it no longer looks like it was there.
Again the fine detail brush came into play, helping to pick out the details on Dannon's face, her eyes, lips, eyeshadow, hair and assorted buckles. I'm quite proud of her so far, overall. While I love the face, the colors still don't quite match the studio's scheme, and I'm trying to make myself ignore that. I almost ruined the face by going back in and reworking parts of it after I finished it. But so far, she's looking quite good. I'll have to take some snapshots of her. I'll be showing her to Tim tonight to get his opinion on her so far.
