Starts to read a little better with a strong highlight placed and a little bit of secondary colour replacing the surrounding primer.
Starts to read a little better with a strong highlight placed and a little bit of secondary colour replacing the surrounding primer.
Looking significantly less yellow the more yellow is attempted. Lo, such is the path of yellow.
Remember everyone—if anyone asks, this is definitely yellow. Not ‘mainly reds’. Ignore the wet palette.
Infinitesimal onward progress. The accidental boop of white paint on the forehead is making me think I may as well give skin mottling a try. Happy little accidents etc.
Speaking of ‘yellow’ (so-called), let’s see if we can work out how to invoke that imposter again… (🥰 to @andrewroycroft for the beautiful birthday gift of a light box!)
A quick blast of Ultra Matte seems to fix the mask layers well enough to paint over (h/t @Thebratdragon). It definitely leaves some unintentional texture at the boundaries but… it’s an Ork. It’s 90% unintentional texture. As long as the face detail isn’t obscured it’ll probably be grand.
Well, chalk that one up to experience. I’d finally picked up the paints again after months only to ‘ruin’ (slightly mar, to the point of minor but strongly-held annoyance) a mini while experimenting with masking fluid.
It’s barely visible in the image but there are small patches where it’s either inaccessible to get at and peel, or where it’s adhered in a crevice and stuck. I don’t want overpaint or I’m sure it’ll flake off at an inconvenient time later.
A little bit of a clean-up on the blade, and a first attempt at the dreaded eye lenses. At the most, absolute maximum, only 80% cross-eyed?
It has been weeks since I did any actual painting. I’m really not sure this effect on the pointy bit’s working, or even in keeping with the rest of the model, but it is ultimately more acrylic-on-plastic so I’m calling it a win!
Starting to add some secondary colours now that Tyrion-paralysis has ended.
Sketching in the light placement for Fancy Lad’s eventual Fancy Backside. Very rough sketch. (Please only squint while viewing 😅)
Head, shoulder, knee and toes (knee and toes). It may be a royal pain trying to colour-match freehand mistakes on a stippled shoulder gradient, but here we are. It’s all just a mix of the same two paints. How bad could it get 😬
And he’ll need those mittens, it’s cold in space.
Fancy Trousers time.
I appear to be locked into an Accidental Grimdark with this one.
Random midweek experiments: I wondered if I’d be able to get a smooth blend from quite dark to quite bright going brown-to-ivories, without resorting to an airbrush. I think the answer is definitely ’no’, at least with this approach. It gives its own effect though, the scratchiness of it could probably be read as weathering? I’ll have to give stippling a try.
What do we reckon here, HobbyPals? Is the freehanding actually accomplishing anything, or just distracting from the initial pleasant simplicity?
/taps temple: can’t be a bog standard ork checkerboard if it’s tilted into diamonds, that’s clearly elf territory…
Another incredibly quick ‘two-tone’ test.
It’s not the tidiest highlighting job in the world, but I’m slightly irritated that this very quick two-tone ‘tester’ model is already looking nicer than the stuff I spend weeks on…