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Why thank you very much kind sir!

Perchance a Beastmen Army is not such a far-off idea anymore!

Base Progress:

Worked out some things on the beastman himself. Just being very loose right now, getting colors down to see how I feel about things. The skin is pretty solid in tone, just needs to be cleaned up in a lot of spots still.

The fur is very very wip, just wanted to see what color might work with the skin.







Also added another touch of contrast to the base stone work with an additional highlight.

Really loving the base, and the faun type dude with the gigantic axe looks promising too!

It's not much of an update for him, but I think it's appropriate considering the direction I've decided to take. Don't pay much attention to anything but the base and the skin right now. Everything else is just blocking out color to get an idea. But the skin and the base are two major breaks from the norm for me.


With the base I've gone with a much more elaborate set up and far more dramatic coloring than I've ever used in the past. I've yet some more work to do still though, mainly in the variation in the vegetation that will be achieved with some paint washes. There will also be some additional flora added to drive home the look I am going for.



The skin is within keeping of the hues established with the basing. I'm also making a concerted effort to keep away from black for shading, using various colors to add depth to the model. In the case of the skin, I'm going with a very deep blue with some red mixed in for a dark violet that will contrast nicely. In the finished model this will end up looking much darker along side of everything else, but right now it still feels very blue. If that's the case later, I'll add a little brown to the depths to punch the contrast up even more. All of this with an eye toward the lighting I've predetermined earlier in the paint!

The skin looks great, nice contrast and colors.

I've done some additional work on the skin, so maybe this will show where the model is going! Also added some additional foliage!





Don't worry too much about all that black, it's going to be metallic with proper shading etc. I'm also working out what colors to go for everything else still as well. The cloth is just washed on to get an idea what i want to do with it. nothing set in stone but the skin still! Any clues on the coloring I should work with on the clothing? The fur is also still very up in the air as well.

To get some ideas I've looked up a few Satyr from WoW (thanks for the idea Pesmerga!) but they're clothingless with just a lot of fur, but it still might help with ideas since that's where the initial basing idea came from.

So, Clothing? Fur?

Where in god's name did you find those flowers? If I can find the right colors I may just have figure out how Im going to base my Orc army

I was wandering around Micheal's the other day and found myself in the floral/house decoration section and noticed it:



For like 6-7 bucks you get enough material for an entire army. Not sure what other colors are available though. Might be worth checking out if you are in need of cheap basing additions

Nice work on the skin...has a nice fur feeling to it.

The display piece matches the model perfectly and a great use of the floral decorations.

Some warm color, like reddish leather, would look good on the clothing. It would bring needed warmth to the fig as the bluish skin and then metal will be cold.

The flowers brought some needed variation of height to the base, but they seem a bit too bright currently.

Great progress on the mini, looking forward for another progress shot.

I'm not sold on the flowers. They're just a bit of a glaring contrast at the moment, not really fitting in with the rest.

Wont the flowers shrivel up a bit over time?

scipunk, thanks, I really wanted the model to feel a part of his surroundings. I'm hoping to continue that with more use of violet in the model be it shading or overt use of the color on fabric/armor/fur. We'll see how far I take that though as the model progresses more.

Met, I'm considering a warmer tone, and after some discussion with a few other friends I am going to explore a yellowed brown leather. It will be a nice compliment to the violet tones and bring the model some life at the same time. The flowers were always going to be a major feature of the base, I just had to get them . They'll catch a wash or two of some color or another to tone them down and bring them in line with the tones already established.

Morgrim, The brightness was the first thing I noticed when I placed them, but a quick wash as I mentioned to Met will take care of that

Trilobite, they're not from a floral shop, but a floral section of dried/painted/fake/made for long term decorative floral stuff at the hobby store! So I'm not worried in the slightest about the longevity!

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To give you all an idea of how 'in progress' this guy really is, I took some more photos last night before heading off to sleep after trying a few more things:





I'm going to explore the yellowed leather more. The fur however I'm still 100% in the air about. Any suggestions?

The blue fur would work out better with a greyer skin colour, but if you want to keep it light, why not try a dirty cream for the hair?

Think sheep or goats, dark brown skin and blotches with dirty shaggy creamy fur, it could look good, especially with the base colouration and the flowers to perk it up.

Heh this is possibly the first time I have seen flowers on a model, and hey it works! BTW, I love the beastmans fur.

I think Iffy has the right of it. The skin tone and fur tone need to be fairly similar. I wish I had a picture of the black and white kitten we are fosterings's belly after her c-section (seriously): the skin was pale skin tone and dark grayish in the exact pattern of the fur above it, so much so that with the exact square shape of the shaved area it was pretty funny the way the fur line continued sans fur.

Anyway, cat bellies aside, I think that one expects the beastman to have hair all over his body like a human at least, so the differences in tone without any of the fur tone anywhere else looks odd.

Still, great model and an awesome base! I am going to have to swing by the floral bits section one of these days and see what I can come up with myself!

Hey GD,
how did you build up that really nice skin tone on the Beast?

Iffy, I'm still lost on what to do about the fur, I'm still thinking on it and taking a breather from him to make sure I get it right.

Cain, flowers can really spruce up a boring base fairly easily. It's just finding the right material .

Wehr, I've been milling that bit of knowledge over for a while and still haven't found anything that fits. This model is still feeling more about the basing than the guy on top of it, so hopefully when I get back to him with fresh eyes, I can figure it out.

DE, the skin was painted with purple and whites, then shaded with blues and browns, and finally glazed with cork brown and highlighted with ivory. It was complicated and more work than I usually do on a model, but the results are different from what I've done before and really give a striking look.
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I've been taking a short break from the Beastman while I figure things out a bit in my head for the model. That's not to say I haven't been working on anything :p.

I've started working on my two forces for Dakkacon: Philadelphia, Orks and Warriors of Chaos. Some of you might already know that I have had these two projects going for some time, but I've decided that I want to have them ready to go for the big get together, so the added motivation should see some force finished .

The Orks have a Nob in progress that I've got a quick tip from for tomorrow on TPC (be sure to check it out when it goes live! Video included!!). He's not quite finished yet, but so far so good.

For my WoC, I've worked on a model I started a long time ago now, the Games Day Chaos Exalted Champion. I'm not sure that I even took WIP shots of him to share, he was a sort of fun side project, and I took the time to finish him off today, which surprisingly enough, didn't take much time at all. Just some work on the bone spots and painting his cape and he was done. Check him out:



A lot of wash work with this guy. The armor is done in Devlin Mud over chainmail scratched with chainmail. The weapons are badab black over chainmail with the same scratching applied. I'll likely take some time to do a Reinforcements write up on him for TPC that I'll post early next week .

Expect orks and chaos in the coming months!

Nice monochromatic look on the champ. I like the muted colors and letting the pose do the talking.

I hope you figure out the beastman, he is looking to become something nice.

Metsuri wrote:Nice monochromatic look on the champ. I like the muted colors and letting the pose do the talking.

I hope you figure out the beastman, he is looking to become something nice.

Thanks Met. It really is such a strong model that you almost feel compelled to let it come through instead of covering him in a bunch of harsh colors.

The beastman will likely figure himself out in my head in the coming weeks. We'll see what he looks like to me once he looks new to me again.

Nice beastman! I also like the champ too. What do you mean by scratching with chainmail? Can you go into more detail please?

Munch Munch! wrote:Nice beastman! I also like the champ too. What do you mean by scratching with chainmail? Can you go into more detail please?

Glad you like them .

By scratching I meant taking the paint and dragging the brush along in controlled strokes along the darkened metallics to create a dinged up/hacked at/chipped/weathered/used look to the weapons and armor. Give it a try on some test bits before having a go at a near finished model though! Easy way being to use boltgun metal washed once with badab black and scratch with chainmail. It might be exaggerated but will give a good idea what you need to change in your brush use/direction.

Ah, thanks, I've been trying to get that effect on my skaven, just had the technique wrong. Again, thanks for the help.

One of the most awesome threads. Everything on here is astounding. Keep up the good work.

Munch, glad I could help a little!

Xanthos, Thanks . It's always nice to hear that someone likes what I'm doing in my little corner of the hobby!

Digging in with the Warriors of Chaos some more this week:





Simple head and weapon swap for the champ. Really dig how beast he ended up looking!

Hoping to get a good amount of work done on the army this week! Big gaming weekend coming up with some good friends and don't want to be the guy with the unpainted stuff :p

Not to shabby their on the conversion. I love the blade!!!

Very nice basework going on lately GD!

Did a quick paint job on the nurgle champion on Friday morning before I had to head out for a nice long drive to go game for the weekend at a friends place ^_^.

Came out pretty nice for the time invested! I'll be writing up a quick article on the techniques used on him for TPC, so be sure to stay tuned over there as well .

C&C welcome! Just keep in mind the time invested