They just need a a few details painted in and they will be ready for the actual models. The daemonhost is very close to being finished - might try and sneak in an hour of work tomorrow evening to get him finished before X-mas. That would be a great goal...
Write-up for the yellow on the bases:
GW Bubonic Brown (+ a little gloss varnish to make the paint more smooth) painted on in two thin layers. Wash of MIG pigment African Earth pigment mixed with W&N matt varnish. Scratches stippled on with a little piece of blister foam using a Chaos Black / dark brown mix. Highlights with Bubonic Brown + Skull White. And finally careful weathering using pigment and orange mix (as feature in the picture), followed by some thinned and broken W&N inks - yellow and green thinned with water...
Looking good Mr. JRN.
ReplyDeleteMay I ask why you chose to use yellow as the predominant colour? I really like it: I'm just curious.
The choice of yellow for the bases was made when I created the first mini for the retinue, Velvet Cathrina:
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She has a purple skirt and to give this area a vivid strong contrast I went for yellow on the base. Therefore the rest of the minis will have purple working into their colour schem somewhere. Not a big problem since I use purple for a lot of flesh shading...
Ah, so it is just a colour wheel thing. It looks great: yellow can be such a bugger to paint sometimes.
ReplyDeleteColour wheel, yeah. But also the chance to add some strong colour ad contrast in general. And the chance to just paint weathered yellow.
ReplyDeleteSorry - I hadn't seen your reply. Yeah, I really like it; I've always liked your use of purple. I was looking at your mutie gang earlier today and was reminded of it, it's a real 'JRN signature' to me now.
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