INVITATIONAL - teaser

It is just about to begin...
www.ironsleet.com will be the place to be the next week or so.
Exciting times...

Imperial Knight, day 22 - basing up

Most work done on the base. Maybe I'll add a little contrat later, but I want to keep the base fairly plain. Focus should be on the big robot.

Base colours thinned with water (and a drop of dish soap to break the surface tension making the paint flow more easy) and washed over the base. Then some washes mixed with some MIG pigments. Some drybrushing. Static grass. Matt varnish. More drybrushing, including drybrushing the grass. Then pure MIG pigments.

Next up - final weathering/tweaking/washing of the robot.
And then photography for the last update on the 24th...

Tulips or are they roses?

Found these very small flowers on the way to the beach last week.
I think they will work very well as regular flowers on miniature bases.

Question is whether they should represent tulips or roses? They will probably work as both...

Base work

Base for the deamonhost and bases for two more models for the retinue are just about ready:

 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...

Paint phase #4 on the daemonhost...

...plus some base painting chores. Two layers of Bubonic Brown - thinned with gloss varnish to make it go on smooth. A technique I have been trying out on some surfaces on my latest models.

The daemonhost is almost finished. The rest - the tubes and som weathering + maybe some red on those orange checks - will be painted when he is glued to the base.

Today's painting session wasn't a long one. But I decided I had to work on the model today. Sometimes I have to decide to work to be able to do it. Strange. But tonight I got going with the project. Another evening or two and he is ready to rock ... or rather; to float about and scare people.