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This is based on the North American Black and Yellow Argiope. You can Google it to see how close I got to the real thing. Oh...and I finally painted something...lol

It might not be intentional and if it is its very subtle, but in the second photo it looks like there is a skull painted on the back. The yellow came out really nice. Did you do lines of white before putting on the yellow?

The model comes sculpted with a skull in its back.

Very sweet paint job, its creepy how real it looks.

Stormtrooper X wrote:It might not be intentional and if it is its very subtle, but in the second photo it looks like there is a skull painted on the back. The yellow came out really nice. Did you do lines of white before putting on the yellow?

I picked up a technique from a Friend (ForsakenZen) to base black and dry brush white before panting. With the spider I dry brushed white until it looked like I black lined it. Lots of white. Then I inked black the legs, a 50/50 snake bite water ink was done on the mandibles and mid leg section when dry I hit them again with a 50/50 red ink water mix then highlighted with a 50/50 snake bite yellow mix. The yellow was done in two coats of yellow 60/40-paint water then 80/20-paint water and the black was done in choas black 1 coat over the white dry brush using a #1 brush. Next back to the legs I painted (highlighted) the legs with shadow gray and a very thin line of space wolves gray. Anyway more then you asked for lol thanks for digging it and the nice comments,

yeah I'm using those spiders as fenris wolves of course I plugged the hole first. great paint job.

I hate you, really. I have enough problems keeping myself from starting yet more new armies, and here you paint this spider up all cool like. I have Battle for Skull Pass! I got it for the rules. Stop making me want to use that as an excuse to start a goblin army ya lously bum!

I cannot believe how real that thing looks. It looks like and actual spider.