Going to raise this thread out of the abyss for a bit.
A rare mood struck me the other day - the mood to paint. I figured I would monopolize on this rarity and direct it towards the project people bug me most about.
Let\'s start with a bit of a refresher. This was the \'before\' - a coat of Krylon rust primer applied liberally to the entire model.
The color I ended up with on the claw arm was a darker brown than this primer allowed, but I\'ve worked out something of a painting method. More on that later, though - for now, I\'ll put some pictures up. I should mention that my lighting in my present apartment is fairly poor, so some of the colors might not come out true to life. I should also mention that there\'s a couple more in-progress photographs over at
my blog site, but they\'re mostly of the head..
Let\'s start with the head:
Following these photographs I touched the teeth up a bit by giving them another coat of red, but it doesn\'t look too much different.
Though the head isn\'t done, I thought I\'d do the same treatment to the body:
I\'ve been giving this thing a decent drybrushing with boltgun metal, then washing it with scorched brown and vermin brown after to tone the colors down a bit and add a rusty appearance back to it. After I add the base colors to the body, I\'ll be hitting it up with a diluted black ink wash as well to bring out some of the details a bit better.
Honestly, it\'s not my best painting because I am sorely out of practice, but I\'m sort\'ve happy to just get this moving again. Things like my checker patterns or the glyphs are sloppy, and I know it. I\'ll work on touching them up as I go.
As I mentioned, it\'s hard to get accurate colors with one excessively bright light, but these should give you an idea of what the rusty parts look like:
(this one\'s from before I started picking colors out on the body)
Couple questions for you guys:
The feet. I blacked the spikey bits out in anticipation of painting them. My initial feeling was to make them all red, but the thought of making them various colors popped into my head and I\'m not sure what to go with. Part of me wants to do random blues and yellows and reds on the toe spikes, but I don\'t know if that would look too colorful. What do you guys think I should do?
Also, I\'m trying to pick a few plates out on the body for coloring - like a solid blue or green armor plate with a space marine decal on it to suggest it\'s freshly looted - but I can\'t figure out which plates are a good choice for the treatment. I don\'t want to do it on the head at all so it doesn\'t get distracting, but two or three good spots on the torso should do it. Any thoughts?
