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Or getting one of the tv trays from JML. hold on let me take a look for a link.....


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@Limbo - I did indeed used to do that, but it ends up taking up so much space on my already small table that it's really just a temporary workaround, I just need to get my act together and actually buy a non cruddy chair that can be raised and lowered and has back support ¬_¬ Kitchen table chairs really aren't that great.

@Dee - That looks like a great idea, would be fantastic for working on batch infantry while sitting on the sofa! Cheers for the link, I might very well grab one of those

DP Skin is now completed, as are his fade down hands which I am really happy with. I am loving the Vallejo gloss black as it mixes and blends so well. You can get a really nice shine gradient by just drybrushing. It is completely win. The paint pot in the pic is one of their liquid metals which are mindblowing. The "old gold" literally looks like gold leaf on a model, it is spectacular. Only problem is you need an alcohol solution to clean the brush, and as I don't have any yet, I won't be using it right now. It would have to be used on all models in a unit/army anyway as it is so shockingly realistic that fielding models with it beside others with GW metallics would look very obvious.

So anyway, finished skin + claws -







After wracking my brain trying to work out where to put hazards on him, it hit me. He may not have any flat metal areas bar his tiny thigh guards, but PIPES. PIPES EVERYWHERE. So hazard pipes shall be done and lolled at. Tomorow will be finishing off the vellejo black horns with shadow grey highlights, then on to his armour

I have one its cool. you can put a laptop on it as well.

looking good!

Sweet! Can't really recommend painting on the sofa, althought that may be cause my sofa and livingroom table are about the same height =/

Nice looking DP! (... wait what?) I really like how the white came out; usually that is a giant pain but the results are nice.

Here's hoping you put a little tutorial in here about that liquid metal stuff!

Also, paint table wise, have you tried putting a few books or 2x4's under the legs to raise the table? I did that with mine, just raising it 2 inches on the 2x4s but it helped a good bit, moving the whole thing closer to my head. I am thinking I will go a bit further and maybe raise it another 2-4" in the future, though at that point I might just make a custom table for better stability. (Lowering your chair might work since you have little bitty hobbit legs though ;-))

All these models look totally amazing. But thats just my opinion. Lol.

Your models and painting are SUPER!! You should be very proud of yourself. Being a dad with two daughters that are gamers,Im always proud of what they bring to the table! Ive seen models and game play that is just amazing! Great job and I cant wait to see your next post

Thanks for the comments all!

Skin, horns, spines and teeth are now finished. There is a very minor Shadowgrey highlight on all the black areas, but I wanted them to look start so tried to not detract from them too much. Basic undercoat for the iron is now in place, a 3/1 mix of chaos black and boltgun thinned a little for the best coverage. The reddish areas in the sunken parts of his pauldrons will be defined a bit more around the edges, but my vision of what this dude is going to look like when finished is slowly becoming apparant I think.





Will hopefully get all his iron done tonight, then it is just on to the gold and pipes




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Iron all done. It will be getting some rust streaks once the gold and pipes are done, but other than that I don't want to darken it down any further then it is. Red indents on shoulders are to get red inked + light black washed to darken them a bit, photo's really make them look awful when in reality they look pretty nice.





So tired D:

wow , i really like your lack of coulr in your models

Bah, I don't! After what, 2 months now of nothing but black white and metal, I really am looking forward to next months Lizardmen

If he asks me to paint them white I might just have to jump out a window.

Dont you mean throw them out of the window?

No, that would not be near a spectacular enough display of my intense rage at having to paint any more solid whites/blacks!

I am anticipating lots of nice vivid colours and plenty of gold for them, it will be a really lovely change of pace.

Aha, French today Ifalana?!!

The DP looks awesome so far.

What sort of scheme you going for with the lizzies, 'standarad GW or something out of the box?

yeas- you do appear to be french - or maybe belgian

I asked to get my flag locked to Ireland, my work Ip seems to be unable to decide on one Country, hah!

Lizardman aren't decided till I have a good chat with the owner to find out exactly what he wants. If it's up to me each unit will have different markings based on spawning pool, with one colour being used across units to bind them together. I am praying for chameleon skinks. Praying.

I think I was French today Weety

That is a very nice silver you have got going there, it has a lot of depth which is very hard to do on metallics (IMO). Looking forward to seeing the possible lizardmen!

Holy progress on a worknight Batman!



Golds basecoated with dark flesh to allow shadowing and a nice even colour. Really starting to look like the final version in my head. All in all this has been a really quick piece of work and one that I am very happy with. Very glad to see I am improving when it comes to speed.

@Commander Cain : Cheers. I don't like to go overboard with layering for dark metallics, you lighten in up to much, so I instead do about 3 drybrush layers and then do the actuall " painting" with inks and washes. I find this suits my skills a lot better.

Iffy, I would have never believed that anyone could make that dumb looking figure look like anything... but you did. I'm very impressed.

I'll post mine when he returns from the US.

Looking at the photos now, I need to retouch his tail in areas. Will have that sorted by tomorow night.

Gitsplitta, I do agree he is intensely goofy, it would have been so easy to screw this up, so I had to plan out what the scheme was going to be very carefully. I know people were not too keen on the pale grey at first, but I do think nearly any other skin colour would have left this awful. The skin has pulled detail from the iron, and once the gold is on, the black horns and fingers will do the same to it.

Dee, looking forward to it

I've just caught up with your blog Ifalna and there is some great work in here. keep up with the updates!

You know, it just ocured to me that I read the "armored" bits completely differently. I always pictured him having a sort of armored halter top with a steel codpiece, and bare abs (with tubing going in.) I couldn't figure out the dissonance until I realized you went for armored "muscles" on the belly with his demon-dong popping out the bottom.

Interesting...

I feel emphasising his Ken doll nethers was an important aspect of finishing this model I never even thought of leaving the abs as flesh honestly, but that kind of would have looked like he was wearing a metal belly top/boobtub so I am glad I steered clear.

Edit: Oh great, I'm British today it seems.

Dang girl, how do you manage to fit in the great painting with all this moving around you do

My real location is obviously on a floating island. It is the only logical answer.

Yea, I am not sure which is odder, that you went for the featureless groinal plain, or that I figured "Of course he is wearing a metal bikini". Now I really want to see it with a little knot tied in it after the bottom of the armor was tucked through the neck hole.

As a completely unrelated aside, you can put a lot of vodka and dark rum in cranberry juice...

Thanks for the mental image Wehrkind, if I ever paint another DP, it will be in a metal bikini

Stripes done skin done iron done horns done. All that needs doing now is 3 or so more layers on the gold, the piping to have a very thin line of undiluted devlin around its edges, and his tail and legs (especially his left ) to be tidied up as there are some issues with the grey.





His special base to match the termies is on the way, and he should be on his way home next week.

He's coming togheter really nice! How did you layer the gold?

So far the gold is only dark flesh followed by a 1/1 mix of tinbitz /shining gold. Next couple of layers will be more and more shining gold, leading up to pure shining on the lightest areas.

Badab/sienna wash will be added to the edge of any raised parts too.