Re: Junes Fun Painting Challenge
Still June, isn't it? =)
Anyways... yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit down for an hour or two of painting. So, armed with a thermos of coffee and some Bolt Thrower on Spotify I had at it.
Here's what they started out like, yesterday.
Since then, all parts have been base coated. Metals drybrushed through tin bits and boltgun metal. Everything have been washed (some parts twice with different washes). The skin on Harboth himself and one trooper (well, two - as I did one more after taking the pic) have been highlighted with the base colour and then base colour + bubonic brown.
Now I'm a bit stuck, as I actually think the troopers look good enough with only the skin being highlighted. Thus I turn to you, dear friends. Should I do more work on them or call it quits? I will pick out teeth and metal parts, and would give the shields some badab black to enhance the "three planks" look. Won't do any highlighting on the yellow coats, leather, wood or fur parts. Nor would I spend any time on the small dagger on the back. What do you say, is it good enough?
Here's where I'm at right now:
Might spend some time on Harboth's pants, and black lining the mouth a bit to get better definition - and I really need to do his flasks properly. Some love on the horns too, and then I think these three lads are more or less done.
Here's a close up, unfortunately with flash. "Finished" trooper to the left. Same skin tone trooper to the right with the difference being the lack of highlights on the skin.
Oh btw, if anyone have any ideas for the shields I'm all ears. I'll probably leave them as is for now. Description of the regiment says they adorn their shields with profanities, but I don't think painting knobs is the way to go. I got this idea just now that seeing how their battle cry is "Pulp the stunties!" they ought to have dead dwarf motifs on the shields. So, how would the average orc go about decorating his shield? Probably not with da Vinci like precision. So, I had a go at these. Too crude? I'm hoping they look "in scale", ie it should look like the orc (and not me) who painted the shield was a poor artist of limited imagination. Here's a shot of my attempt. Let me know what you think.
Any variants (for halflings, for instance) suggestions would be great!