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 wyomingfox wrote:
Filter Thread engaged. Muwahahah!. Cool idea on the wolf spawn. How do you do the blood slick on your wolves' tentacles?

It's real blood from Ramo's Enemies.

Oh no, new page! Now Wyfox can see us maybe!

Hmmm...have you been talking smack WM?

Not that you can prove.

Ya know, I betcha its all this talk of HAWT FROG SPEARS that is kicking off wyfox's filter

Maybe we can trip it again with FROG SPEARS!

FROG SPEARS FROG SPEARS FROG SPEARS! on fire!

(bye wyfox! )



As to the Hounds' blood effects, thats totally not the blood of my enemies! Totally not. (Shhhhh! Dont spoil it, Solar... I might need to get more "blood effects..." >=D )

It's one of my favorite paints for this effect: Tamiya Clear Red (X-27)
It has the perfect color right out of the pot for fresh blood, and with a little additional black or red ink mixed in gives it a more dried look. It also has the perfect consistency once it starts to gel and dry. Gets really gooey and you can make it form threads and chunks. Highly recommended!


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So oof... Sorry for the absence, guys. Internet went down here a couple days ago and it took us a bit to get it back up and running.

Since last we spoke (or last I wrote, rather), the frogs have gotten more colors on them and are looking properly decked out now. Dark leather and tan cloth/fur areas are complete, and the armor just needs a highlight of silver and a bit of rust.





It's at this point that I need to ponder gem and eye colors for these guys. I was thinking all green gems (there aren't that many to paint, mostly just on these guys' necklaces and another sculpt's gauntlet.

Then eye color, I was almost thinking a magenta sort of glow. Dark at the outside, but fading to a pinky color in the middle? Almost like the Albino Vault's eyes, but no pupil to them.

Thoughts?

I could dig a green gem, although for eyes I'm thinking white-ish. The two examples I could find are below, I think there's no pupil no matter what:




That second pic has a little color near the edges but still has most of the eye "whitish". Does that come close to what you were thinking? I'm partial to the first pic which almost has a bit of cream to it, though. What do you think? It'd fit right in with the color of the horns, too! I'm hesitant on the second pic because the magenta at the edges makes them look a bit angry

It looks like the belt buckle and horns especially are also TBD, but I really like where these are going! My only worry from the start was color balance (hard to make an identical scheme work with both orange and blue skin as far as balance of colors) but I think you're doing really well with it! If it were possible to see the details on one model before finishing the rest I think that'd really help but the cream-ish eyes and horns should brighten up / add a balancing color to the scheme nicely.

Belt buckles are gonna be picked out in a little bit of gold, just to get that splash of color on them. Then the horns will be a bone color, unless you'd rather them be the yellowy color of the Nautiloid shells. Think that'd be too strong for these, though

Glad to hear that the color balance is working for you. As Im looking at them, its crazy how different elements of the individual colors are emphasized. The blue makes the leather look more red, the orange makes it look darker.... COLOR THEORY!


Sounds pretty solid on the creamy white eyes, though. When I get the horns and gold on these guys I'll pop up a picture of one with cream eyes. Im thinking I know what to do with them- have them fade to a very light sepia tone. You dig?

Yeah that sounds great, the only thing that's in flux is the eyes so makes sense to go ahead with the rest! In that first pic above, how do you think they do it? I see what looks like a little black edge (maybe from a black wash?) and there's almost a hint of yellow in the center? Not sure if sepia will look like that but that's just the one thing we need to test

Looks like they blacked out the eyes (like I did for the vault), then worked up from some kind of bone color to white in order to give it that glow. Sepia wont be as yellow, but will instead have a chestnut shade to it.

Nice frogs. I don't know why I thought they would wind up with Kermit eyes.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Looks like they blacked out the eyes (like I did for the vault), then worked up from some kind of bone color to white in order to give it that glow. Sepia wont be as yellow, but will instead have a chestnut shade to it.

Hmm, would it work to try it on one? I really like the above eyes but it sounds like a lot of work! The black edge would be nice to have, and we could see if the eye shade looked right with the sepia on one.

The frogs look really nice! I think a green for the gems will be good, as the orange frogs are all warm colors, all the time, so something to set that off would be nice.

Thanks wehr! Thats exactly my line of thinking... Probably going with a purplish blue for their tongues as well for the same reason...


Gems are green and fitting nicely now, and all of the horns are painted up!

Here is the test for eyes... on the left, a more yellow eye. The camera blows it out a little, but this is more of a true yellow fading to white in the same way as the Right eye, which is sepia.

Man that frog is looking sharp! Ramos is just going to brighten up the tips of the horns, and then this bad boy will be ready to kick some serious arse!

The purplish tongue color sounds great btw, and matches the earlier unit's tongues which looked fantastic! And I just love the yellow eye color in general so we're going with that . Ramos also mentioned that the rust comes after everything is done being painted since it's a powder and comes post-sealing. Not that these need a ton of it anyway (they're already so "warm" in color) but just a tiny bit here and there. Other than that, these look done!

I can't describe how pleased I am with how these came out, such a unique unit and you have pulled it off in spades!

Frog Spear dudes are looking great. I saw your Wolves in the Halloween project; totally awesome. I love The Thing, so I was fist pumping when I saw them.

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Agreed evildrcheese! That was a needed addition for the Halloween project, excellent pinch hit by Ramos there.

Thanks drcheese! The Hound Spawn turned out exactly how I envisioned them, and that they were so well received by Gits and everyone else... Im just super stoked to see how far Git's project has come (and how my minis fit within it )
Just goes to show how far getting really inspired by a project will take you!


Sooooooooo....

Frogs are DONE!!!
Only thing missing is some grass on these guys, but thats something Im gonna take care of all at once at the end of the project!

Order now, and get Frogs in two spectacular flavors!

Blueberry:







And Tangerine!









Tomorrow Im going to Pittsburgh with the family to bother my brother at school... He needs to go grocery shopping, ya see! So no work tomorrow, but after that its back to some green gators and blue squidmen!

Sorry if you said before, but I didn't want to go fishing for the answer: what game system are the frogs for? They look incredibly awesome BTW!

Not a problem at all, Zerg!

These guys are destined to be counts-as Croak Raiders for WarmaHordes.

The models are Frogmen from Gaspez Arts and are usually for games like Blood Bowl. Though with the simple addition of some spears and a little finagling, they work out pretty nice as armored infantry!

Figures are beautiful. Casting on the bases is just god-awful. Shame that.

This is absolutely incredible work!! These are my favorite units you've done by far, the colors worked brilliantly! So glad we decided to go with one blueberry and one tangerine flavored unit

There is a skull helm bit we discovered for the unit leaders (even though it's not on the website pics) so that may get added later to help them look like more badass rather than just the "fat frogs" (although clearly in froggy hierarchy the fattest frog is the boss!)

Re: Bases, Wehrkind may take offense . Actually you're spot on, but if you look most of the cast defects are on the flat front face. I'll be covering the front face with laser cut base labels to both identify the figure and show the front arc. They will likely be a darkish green material. So that won't be visible for long

Also the big flat part on front is on purpose.

Frogs look good! They do cry out for Kermit style pupils though

Re: Bases: Some of those are pretty rough up front... are those the old style or the semi-deep dish ones? If the old, you should have bugged me for some replacements Though I am interested to see how the laser cut bits fit on the front; that might be a good fix for a surface that tends towards issues. When I make new molds for those, I want to switch the pour points to be off the flat face (isn't as easy to clean as I had hoped) but to do so I need to add some mass to the backs of the flat part so they don't catch bubbles. That might not be as aesthetically pleasing as a flat "plate".

Your new base casts are great (where you moved the pour points) these are the old! But that face will be fully covered with the nameplates, so it won't show at all, anyway

Regarding Kermit pupils, I like them with just the empty eyes - that's how all the pics I've seen of these have been done. Pupils are always risky - if done badly they make the models look much worse! I love the pupils on the big Vault gator that Ramos did, but for the smaller models I tend to prefer pupil-less (particularly for nonhuman models).

Didn't mean to be insulting Wehrkind, my apologies. They were just such a contrast to Ramos' amazing paint job. Sounds like it won't be an issue at all for RiTides though. Again, I apologize if my language was a bit rough.

OH, no worries Gits, those do look pretty iffy I throw away about half as many of those old style bases as I use anymore, as the last few pours before the molds crapped out don't always clean up well.

Actually, looking at the bases and the models harder, are the models glued to the base part? I ask because some of the models look to be moving/facing different directions than the base arcs, and if they are not glued down that can be fixed, as well as getting some better bases attached

The models are all generally facing forward, but to mix things up some have their sides to the front and some are pointing right at it. Arcs will be super clear once the green nameplates are on there, I promise

Those frogs look awesome dude.

 RiTides wrote:
The models are all generally facing forward, but to mix things up some have their sides to the front and some are pointing right at it. Arcs will be super clear once the green nameplates are on there, I promise

Whatever, Mr "Why wouldn't you assume he would be facing in the most opportune direction?"

Oh my gosh, just noticed the orange frog on the left holding his spear backhanded, that's awesome

@Wehr - To be fair... why wouldn't you . But marking the bases with nameplates will make it so the models and arcs can be easily identified now!