Things picked up a bit this week as I made an effort to get back into painting. I’m doing most of my painting at night as even during the day on the weekend there isn’t much sun due to the winter weather.
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| Shield of shading |
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| Banner |
After a few nights of working on the shield I had to start again (again). The dark blue paint I’m using for shading I think is getting a bit old and separated. It keeps leaving tide marks when it dries and that ruined my second attempt on the shield. Changing tack I base coated most of the shield in the first shade colour (rather than the base sky blue) and started shading from there.
My idea was that all the shield would be darker (being lower down on the figure and in shadow) so it would be easier to make the first shade colour the base colour of the shield and go from there. The highlight would only be one or two steps above the base sky blue colour used on the cloak. It worked better and managed to avoid most tide marks. However I’m thinking my dark blue needs to be replaced. It’s just too watery and seems to have no binding medium left in it.
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| Raw wood display base |
I also started on the display base. I’m thinking of using one of the resin rocks I made with the pinkysil and easycast resin previously as the main part of the base and a few small twigs as broken tree stumps. For the wood I got a chair leg from Bunnings and cut it half and stained it much like it did for the display base of El Torres.
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| After staining |
Next steps are tidying up the figure of all those little mistakes and doing a full trial of the snow effects. Also I need to do a few more glazes on the shield and lower cloak area (for the mud splatter). The good thing about using one to the resin rocks is that I can make as many as I want as trial pieces :)
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