Painting

Over the last couple of days I have been painting the chest plates of his armour. I wanted this to look like very old Bronze that has seen a fair amount of use, much like the rest of his armour. I did some image searches for reference and decided I wanted it to look somewhat like this Greek helmet. I like the various colours working together but without the polishing!.
I gave the the armour plates an undercoat of green then a couple of flat coats of Vallejo ...

Well I have done some more on this massive Dwarf bust. The more I work on this the more I like it. Fist off was to blend him into the base. This was actually War Griffons suggestion and was something I really liked the idea of because is signifies the Dwarven link to stone. Click on the image for a larger view.

To do this I had to fettle away the old stone texture to a smoother surface, this also reduced some of the bulk. I did the same with the plinth ...

Tags: bust, dwarf, grudge, reaper

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Painting , Conversion

Hi all, been ages since I posted anything to do with a work in progress. This is basically because I’m rubbish at remembering to take pictures while I’m painting. Another thing is that I am like a Mayfly with something else on it’s mind when I’m painting. At the moment I’m in the middle of a few things models some of which I can’t show due to contest rules but these include Dark Swords Male Ranger, Reaper’s Lara Kraft, which I was lucky enough to get a pre-release copy of from Miniature Heroes. ...