OD's SoB Prep Blog

[Old Dwarf]

11/13/14- Another morning here in depths of S.Jersey.
Thus the start of another painting session with todays
subject regular (the Red & Black ones) Slashers. These
guys don't look so friendly paint wise as the Terrors &
their poses on the bases means their underside is going
to be a bit of a challenge. So I'm going up to start.

The first session I did the red parts-I think the hardest
part of the Slashers is deciding which parts get which
colors but I'm sticking to the adventure pics. Next I'll use
War Paint Red Tone to set them up & hopefully shade
out the crannies (Slashers have a lot of crannies).
I did find their hunched up pose wasn't too bad to
get to their underside.

The regular Slashers are done ( they worked out quicker
than I thought).I started the dry brushing with The
Saloon Red from the SoB Hero set as I thought the
GW Blood Red was a bit too bright. I found that the
Saloon Red wasn't showing enough over the
SoB Crimson Hand Red so I mixed in some Blood Red to
get the effect I wanted. The 2nd highlight was The Orange
from the SoB Monster Set ,followed by Cinder Yellow however
I found Cinder Yellow a bit thin to dry brush with so I goosed
it up with GW Sunshine Yellow. Basically a lot of dry brushing
was required to get the figs. looking like their pics.

I used a Primer/Paint Black Spray Base Coat so the Black
parts were really done but for the raised black parts
I went over in Ripper Nightmare Black. That in turn was
dry brushed with GW Shadow Grey.

I've found the War Paints in general are more subdued than
GW's paints, which I like but sometimes for highlights the
GW Paints brighter shades work best (otherwise you would
need to mix the War Paint with White (or whatever) to get
the shade you want.

So next up the 3 alternative Swamp Slashers , basically
a repeat just using Green & Brown in place of red & Black.
I'm using Ripper Turf Green for the base with a green Tone Ink
& highlight with Ripper Meadow Green ,I'll need a 3rd highlight
but I'll have to experiment but probably GW Scorpion Green.

The Brown parts I plan for War Paint Oak Brown with a
monster Brown highlight.

The Swamp Slashers now have their base coats of Green & Brown
& have been Inked. So I just have the highlights to do, I'll do
them tomorrow AM . Next up will be one of the Epic Monsters.