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OD's SoB Prep Blog
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11-08-2014, 12:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2014 02:38 PM by Old Dwarf.)
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RE: OD's SoB Prep Blog
11/8/14-Dawn ,this moment is sacred throughout the Western
Pacific, as all Japa....... Damn! total brain fart! anyway Dawn is indeed raising here in S.Jersey & I am preparing to return to the paint room. (my wife is home today, which means supervised activities - I best get to it while she's still abed. I just noticed I started on the Hell Bats rather than the Stranglers I had intended (I guess they wanted it more). I do find I enjoy painting up the larger figs. again as there is so much more you can do to make them really cool looking. Well time is a wasting, so it's upstairs & I'll see if I need to give the Hell Bats some more Green. Taking a break- The Hell Bats did not need another coat of Green after all so I finished up the back wing struts with a detail brush & then use Crimson Hand Red (about like GW Red Gore) for the mouth/tongues & gills. I rather liked the black wings against the Green body so rather than painting them a darker shade of Green I used Reaper Paint Nightmare Black. It dries to a nice subdued leathery look. I still need to shade the body with Dark Tone & get the highlights done ,including picking out their teeth. So I may be able to finish them up today & move on to the 6 Bog Bats. Another session-I shaded the Hell Bats bodies but instead of the Strong Tone Ink I used War Paint Green tone from their Ink Set . I also picket out the teeth & the wing spurs in Bone & as I had Bone left over (you can't really get the stuff back in the tube) I mixed in some Oak brown & GW Codex Grey & did the rocks. I still need to use Strong Tone to shade the rocks & a little Soft Tone on the wing spurs & teeth before I'm ready to highlight. Lunch Break- I did just finish up all the shading Inks-so this afternoon I be ready for the highlights. For the body of the Hell Bats I don't think a dry brushing of the Serpent Green base color will make the figs pop enough. I have some GW Scorpion Green that would light them up like a neon sign which would be too much so I'll try a mix of these two paints. The Hell Bats are finished, I used the Scorpion Green/Serpent Green Mix (probably wasted some paint getting the mix right*) for the body. The Tongue, lips ,gills got 3 Highlights of GW Blood Red, War Paint Orange & then a mix of Orange & GW Golden Yellow. I had bought a "insane detail" from Army Painter & it works great in picking out the teeth which had been done in bone,shaded with soft Tone & then a white highlight. * I don't like to mix paint & prefer to use the exact color I need if it's available. Mixing for highlights is ok but if you use it for a base color it can be a hassle. Too much & it gets wasted, mix too little & you have to do another batch & hope you can match your original. That's why I hope the Brown paints I ordered from Reaper match up to the SoB Mine Tiles for the bases as there are just too many bases to keep mixing paints for. I did a test run on the Bog Bats using Crimson Hand Red, it covered the black Undercoat well but is a dull color, so I'll probably use 2 or 3 dry brushings to highlight. I hope to finish all 6 of them as far as their bodies go later today. Final Session-the Bog Bat bodies are all painted & I used War Paint Red Tone to Ink they for shading. Tomorrow I can start on the rocks, tongue, lips & gills. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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