Medusa and Orc and Project shame (4)

The march towards total painted-ness of my back catalogue continues!  Tonight, I focused on base coating greys, metals and greens.  I pushed several more minis along thusly...

Citadel 1980's Talisman Orc and Armoured Medusa

I find that with painting lime greens, it is easy to get great results as warm green paints tend toward translucency.  I highlight by adding a matte medium or windex/water solution to thin the paint to translucent.  This softens the brush marks away and gives a smooth finish.  To get the green look I use for my orcs, I start with some form of medium cool (bluish) green, use a dark grey green for shading and then blend up warm lime highlights.  Once that is all done, I go over the model and richen places with warm dark green glazes and yellow glazes.  Often I will add warm blue glazes to some parts of orcs.  My color choice for the lips is based on Frazer Gray.  Because.

Villagers Actor, Talisman Orc, Night Horror Armoured Medusa, 80's LOTR Legolas (Citadel), Chibi Warduke (Impact)

As you can see the tray behind is moving along.  I am base coating color by color, adding thinned windex to make brushing on the paint a pleasure.  For most of these I am using a black enamel spray primer, VMC medium grey drybrushing to pop the detail, and Jo Sonja craft acrylics (hookers green) for the bases.

Those painting stands are actually pencil sharpeners... 3 for $2 at my local bargain basement store.  A wad of bluetack in the hole fixes the mini in place while I work.  You can put sand or glue washers inside to weigh them down a bit too.  They are especially good once sprayed black, as they are not distracting.  The screw ridge also stops your fingers from sliding up and smudging the model.

Okies, that is me for the night.  Probably next report from CANCON!

Some (nearly) finished stuff

Lots of minis this blog- not one completely done,  but very close.  My camera phone does not do a good job in low light- I must dig out the digital cam that I used at the start of the blog.

Enjoy!

Orcs! Lots of Orcs!

'Ere yer go.  An earlee wurk in progress... me greenies... cor lookat 'em all.  Dems boyz gettin' reddy for Waaaahhhggg.

*cough*  gosh I say, orcish is just too much like being back in essex.  Innit.

So... er... cobber...  I decided it would be nice to get as many of my orcs out for a family photo.  This is the first time they are all together.   Obviously they are all in various states of unfinished- some nary out of their undercoat- but I figured you may like to see them.  Imagine them all painted up lovely.  Cooorrrr.

So with a few days left to giftmas I probably should focus on my giftmas sophie from reaper- or, you know,  base and varnish cthulu santa from last year.  But hmmmm... maybe someone can give me some 'arsed' for giftmas because right now I just can't be.

Wippity do dah

A quickie wip to mark progress on my hobby fix- I had a few hours free tonight as my missus was out at work drinks.  I just pushed a few things on my pile further along without much focus- I am rather tired tonight.

Starring in this pic are works in progress of a classic winged cat from Ral Partha's golden ad&d era, and citadel lead aplenty:  a kniggit of dol amaroth, a chaos sorcerer, The orcish limited edition of the Brothers Grimm (Fraser Gray style) and a chaos centaur from slaves to darkness.  Oh and one of my new unreleased dwerg for Darkling Games!

In my last post I kicked off a kickstarter discussion- please pop back there and share your thoughts!

Touching some orcs up

Tonight I touched up some orcs whilst the varnish dried on the last batch of Cryx.  These lovely old school figures are from Ral Partha (iron wind metals these days).

I just spent an hour or two on them, and want to go back in for some ink washes to make them pop a bit more.  Excuse the shitty iphone snap.  Couldnt be bothered setting up the camera.  Still not 100% clearly.

Anyway, lovely old school minis.  Enjoy.

Ral Partha Orcs.  Fun to touch up.