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Wooden skirt work |
Poked along a little bit this week with my Samurai as I only got to do painting on the weekend. I spent a couple of hours working on what I thought was his hair until it was pointed out to me by the wife that the figure didn’t make sense. If the top of the head was hair, how did the bottom armour cowl attach? A quick google search of the original drawing (and reading the painting notes that came with the figure - doh!) pointed out the ‘hair’ was not really hair. I was part of the helmet and made of horse hair to look like normal hair. Sigh. So need to repaint that to look more horse hair and less person hair like.
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Helmet detail, sorry bad lighting |
The next session was working on the wooden armour on the front skirt and rear of the helmet. I base coated these in VGC German Pale Brown and shaded down with VMC Earth. Then I did half a dozen highlight glazes using first VMC Iraqi Sand and then VMC Light Sand. The problem I was finding is that the armour is sculpted as a series of sticks. So any glaze quickly runs into the recesses between the sticks making the recessed areas the lightest. Not what was wanted. To overcome this I ended up glazing the highlights and then going back and doing a very careful re-shade with VGC Earth. Finally I did some point highlighting with the VMC Iraqi Sand/Light Sand. I found that it was much better to do the stroke as very small up/down strokes rather than painting across the edges in one long line. This was due to the paint building up on the edge only rather than across the whole area and although the amount of paint being put on was the same having the strokes follow the pattern of the wooden armour helped bring out the detail much better. Or to put another way paint the object as an individual (i.e. paint each armour stick as a stick) rather than a blob. Which is odd as painting hair is pretty much the other way round to avoid the old school dry brushed hair technique look which results in hair that looks like painted straw, rather than the gentle colour transitions that occur with real hair.
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Base together with wall section |
On the base I drilled and pinned the wooden core that makes up the wall section. This is give some extra support so the wall doesn’t get snapped off accidentally.
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Dungeon Saga Troll |
During the week my first parcel from Mantic of Dungeon Saga arrived. This was the Orc expansion “Warlord of Galahir”. The figures are much better than I expected (based on figures I have seen in Doom and “A Touch of Evil”). They are almost too good of a quick bake base coat and magic dip paint job. However I don’t have time currently to paint 80 odd figures for a game I’m not going to play that much. I mainly backed the Kickstarter for the occasion game day with friends and for the kids when they get a bit older. So I will probably just paint some of the character figures when they arrive for now.
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Dungeon Saga Mawbeast |
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