Painting diary UPDATED NOV 9
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Painting diary UPDATED NOV 9
well i wasnt painting my woodelves fast enough, so id thought id make a diary to motivate myself. basically ill place updates of the units im painting and how far i am ...
first off
highborn
right now
based white and inked black. the armour is higlighted with hawk turqoise, and then hawk turqoise mixed with white. first 75/25 hawk turqoise/white, then 50/50 , then 25/75, and finnally 10/90. then it gets a watered down black wash.
picture
any comments? suggestions?
first off
highborn
right now
based white and inked black. the armour is higlighted with hawk turqoise, and then hawk turqoise mixed with white. first 75/25 hawk turqoise/white, then 50/50 , then 25/75, and finnally 10/90. then it gets a watered down black wash.
picture
any comments? suggestions?
Last edited by Highborn Sycath on 10 Nov 2005, 21:53, edited 3 times in total.
before i undercoat I always glue the sand to the base - saves a lot of headaches further down the line
Just a question is that the base metal showing throw or the white undercoat on the tips of the cloak? If its metal I would suggest respraying
Do you always paint the characters first? I always leave them till last when im comfortable with the paint scheme of the army rather than when im still experimenting with colours etc. Its also best to get all the boring stuff (core units) painted first - many a time ive painted all the more interesting units and characters first only to never get to the core units.....
Look forward to seeing the finished highborn!
Just a question is that the base metal showing throw or the white undercoat on the tips of the cloak? If its metal I would suggest respraying
Do you always paint the characters first? I always leave them till last when im comfortable with the paint scheme of the army rather than when im still experimenting with colours etc. Its also best to get all the boring stuff (core units) painted first - many a time ive painted all the more interesting units and characters first only to never get to the core units.....
Look forward to seeing the finished highborn!
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nice, I put the sand on after and I paint characters last but I'm not mad about characters they are a part of the army, though with the WE the models are better so I'll *try* to paint them better !
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heres an update.
face: on a coat of black. i painted a white stripe hrorizontally where the eye iis. i then painted a vertical one where the pupil is. ti then did the skin, with dwarf flesh highlisghted up to elf flesh mixed with white.
the hair has a base of bubonic brown.
oh and just so you know im useing a scanner as digi cams broken, thats why pics arent the best.
dedit: something wrong with the pic. fix it in a minute
update:
dryad#1 heres is a pic of my dryad. how it was painted: undercoated black. heavily dryabrushed with camogreen mixed with black. the lightly drybrushed with came green. then washed with camo green mixed with black. then highlighted with camo green, then with camo mixed with white, up until a mixture of 40/60 camogreen/white
piccie
comments? suggestions? turkey
face: on a coat of black. i painted a white stripe hrorizontally where the eye iis. i then painted a vertical one where the pupil is. ti then did the skin, with dwarf flesh highlisghted up to elf flesh mixed with white.
the hair has a base of bubonic brown.
oh and just so you know im useing a scanner as digi cams broken, thats why pics arent the best.
dedit: something wrong with the pic. fix it in a minute
update:
dryad#1 heres is a pic of my dryad. how it was painted: undercoated black. heavily dryabrushed with camogreen mixed with black. the lightly drybrushed with came green. then washed with camo green mixed with black. then highlighted with camo green, then with camo mixed with white, up until a mixture of 40/60 camogreen/white
piccie
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heres is the first dryad finished pretty much http://photobucket.com/albums/y272/war_ ... nished.jpg
and here is the one im working on now
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/w ... edryad.jpg
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and here is the one im working on now
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/w ... edryad.jpg
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i was going for that each dryad in the unit would have two of the main colours ( so some would be blue and green, som would be blue and bone, and the others would be grenn and bone) so that each one would look different but when theres a unit shot the unit would look cohesive... im not sure how itll look though...
i agree about the blue going to well with the green, but as the whole units not going to be like that, i hope itll look fine in a unit shot
i agree about the blue going to well with the green, but as the whole units not going to be like that, i hope itll look fine in a unit shot
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Thanks!
well i got over to games workshop finally, and picked up some water effects( the woodland scenics one, not the twice as much gw ones) and bleached bone, so now i can finish my nhighborn. heres and update on what ive done so far
i redid the blue armour ( for some reason it looked odd out side.... and didnt look blue...) did the bleached bone, and started working on the spite and the wood. i tried to make it look as if the wood trned into the spite, so i did some blending ( note. this was my first time blending and dint have any paint flower stuff, so its not the greatest, but i think it looks good)
http://photobucket.com/albums/y272/war_ ... ghborn.jpg
still to finish- some parts of the skin
some of the bone
the bow and quiver
the great weapon
his base( including water effects and spite and wood)
almost done
comments? suggestion? turkey?
well i got over to games workshop finally, and picked up some water effects( the woodland scenics one, not the twice as much gw ones) and bleached bone, so now i can finish my nhighborn. heres and update on what ive done so far
i redid the blue armour ( for some reason it looked odd out side.... and didnt look blue...) did the bleached bone, and started working on the spite and the wood. i tried to make it look as if the wood trned into the spite, so i did some blending ( note. this was my first time blending and dint have any paint flower stuff, so its not the greatest, but i think it looks good)
http://photobucket.com/albums/y272/war_ ... ghborn.jpg
still to finish- some parts of the skin
some of the bone
the bow and quiver
the great weapon
his base( including water effects and spite and wood)
almost done
comments? suggestion? turkey?
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*hands out turkey*
im pretty much done except for the blade.
for the base i put a couple of layers of sand on the back of the base.. to make it look raised,, and then used water effects to make a little river and water fall going to the front of the base. i blended the all of the tree trunk to make it look like it was turning into the spite, and i highlighted the part that was still brown upto brown mixed with bleached bone.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/w ... stdone.jpg
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oh and the pixies blue cause its a water spirit.. and i dont recall water fairys being bone ^_^
im pretty much done except for the blade.
for the base i put a couple of layers of sand on the back of the base.. to make it look raised,, and then used water effects to make a little river and water fall going to the front of the base. i blended the all of the tree trunk to make it look like it was turning into the spite, and i highlighted the part that was still brown upto brown mixed with bleached bone.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/w ... stdone.jpg
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oh and the pixies blue cause its a water spirit.. and i dont recall water fairys being bone ^_^
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another dryad!
http://photobucket.com/albums/y272/war_ ... dryad3.jpg
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http://photobucket.com/albums/y272/war_ ... dryad3.jpg
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ahhhhh the zombies their everywhere. sorry for the necromancy, but here is my wip for my bsb
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/w ... Bearer.jpg
first try at freehand, the banner cloth, and the white and green cloaks are done.
oh does anyone know any good nmm tutorials? i have yet to find a good one and want to try it out
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/w ... Bearer.jpg
first try at freehand, the banner cloth, and the white and green cloaks are done.
oh does anyone know any good nmm tutorials? i have yet to find a good one and want to try it out
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