Girvin's Orange Top

Girvin (right figure) got a orange sweatshirt. The brownish red trousers is nice. But I'll paint the shoes black not brown. I already got the feedback, that the miniature seems to be too bright. I wanted to darken the cloak anyway. However I don't want to paint it black. I consider doing some stripes or checker boards on the trousers to compensate the lack of details on this miniature. I recognized, that the eyes are not really visible.

All parts have only one layer of paint, yet. Next I will do some shading work on the face and on the cloak.

 

Capes and more

I painted Eln's cape a week ago. Because I primed white I got this lovely shading effect with one single layer of green. For the Half-Elf I wanted a brown cape until I realized, that that cape must get a red lining. So he also got a green cape, but there I have to do much more shading due to the dark color and due to the liquidness of that color. I took again an older color which was going to dry up in the pot. Curses to the producer of cheap color pots. My 15 year old Games Workshop colors are still fine. But my 2 years old Games Workshop colors become (almost all of them) useless.

As you can see on the picture above, the red lining looks excellent. I made this picture at night. Sorry for that.

I did not paint the lining around the head part, yet. I need a better mood for that more difficult part.





The lady will maybe get a white robe. I just put a base layer "bleached bone" from the really old color range on it. So I can either highlight it more and more to get a white rag. But I can also put some chestnut ink on it to get a brown cloak. I bought a new red ink. Then it will become a red clothing.... No final decisions are done, yet.

The little guy on the left got some jade green on the pauldrons because they will be made of bronze. The axe will show no green when finished, for sure.

Hihi

The current state will show up automatically in 24 h :)

Giving Soul

For me, the moment when you give some paint to the faces, is always like giving the miniature a soul.

My GW Foundation Flesh Paint was already drought up. I painted only 3 miniatures with it :(

Now I bought the ArmyPainter skin tone. It is pretty dark I think so I have to highlight pretty much of that. Fortunately this are only 4 faces. The gnome should get a dark skin tone anyway.

This is all just the first layer. I had the green and purple just opened when I added the little pieces of color. Korgan's chest is not painted in flesh, it is a brown layer. Also Eln's leather pieces got a first brown layer.

One week later I put this black layer on all parts which should be covered with metal paint later. Also Korgan's hair is black now, so that I can drybrush it to dark-gray.

PS: hab vorhin erst nen Kommentar gesehen und frei geschaltet. Bitte nachschauen.

PSS: Fun fact: Korgan hat Falten in der Stirn. Die waren im Modell schon drin, jedoch so schwach, dass ich sicher war, dass die nachdem Farbe draufhatte kommt, nicht mehr zu sehen sind. Ich hab die vor dem Grundieren tiefer reingeschnitten mit nem Modellierwerkzeug. Das hat sich gelohnt! Das wir klasse!

Intermission

The RoboRally Roboters are cute but simple models and well suited to get back into miniature painting. Here are some WiP pictures. The goal was to get some fair colors rather than a fine paint job. I decided to try out the Army Painter Quick shade. I dipped the Robos. I think the splash on technique is better suited for me.

Oh, there is sneak peak of the party, too ;)

Primed

I primed the minis a few weeks ago. Together with some board game minis. The crowd on the right is from Talisman. Also the player chars from Zombieeees will get some paint. In the front there are some Robo Rally Roboter which also belong to a friend.