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All praise the mighty Squiggoth, really looking forwards to watching this big guy get painted.

You know, I don't really dig the skin being 'fully painted' at this point. I figure, this is a Squiggoth. It's a Centerpiece for your army, and it's wonderfully detailed, and you're only going to be painting the one, probably ever. I think you should go further than just a flat color and a couple washes.

What I'd like to see is feathering done on individual scales (not necessarily all of them, but some of the bigger ones), and taking the time to go in with either a wash or both slightly darker and slightly lighter shades of red and patterning the scales so they're not all a uniform color- splotches of shade like you'd see on a real-life scaled beasty. Maybe do the same with some purple-ish or orange-ish color as well.

See, the armour on the gob is so marvelously mottled and the horns, teeth and talons have that nice gradation- but the only change in color you have on the scales themselves are where the wash pooled in the low spots, it seems.

That's coming...

Like the Grot tank regiment, and the Squiggoth has promise!

Made some progress on the big squiggoth. There's a lot of surface area so its slow going. All the areas in brown will eventually be yellow.

That is gonna take some serious time to bring up to yellow!!

Yeah, 3 more shades for the yellow then a sepia wash. I'll need to buy more paint for certain.

Thats a fair chunk of yellow armour.

Looking great.

Oooh yes!!
That is one gorgeous model! Very happy to see it return.

interested in seeing how the yellows go.

Well, I'm going to wet-blend it... which is a technique I really like but has kind of fallen by the wayside since I've discovered airbrushing. Airbrushing is just so damn efficient its a better choice for many circumstances. Not all though. While I could certainly airbrush the shades up in a fraction of the time... it wouldn't have the same gritty look when finished... and once I get rolling with a wet palate to keep the paint thin and smooth it shouldn't take too much time now that my areas are clearly defined. Just put something entertaining on the old computer DVD player and watch me go!

Should have another pic for you before bed time. Would appreciate a bump between now and then if someone sees this.

le bump



I really should work on wet blending, myself. There is a definite difference between airbrushed blends and wet blends. I've noticed that the latter done right gets you super creamy blends.

Ill be watching with interest!

Indeed. They seem much more vibrant to me. Also you can focus the highlight in the center of the plate rather than the edges. Not particularly realistic but it does produce and interesting effect.

So, that's what I'm trying to go for here. You'll note that there is nothing smooth or creamy about this step. For orks, I like my blends to be rather haphazard and crude. The get more refined as I go and the sepia wash will help tie them all together. This is two layers of the lighter brown. If I was really serious about this, I'd do 3 or 4.

Why are you not serous about a centerpiece model?

I've already done a centipede model... Different style of painting though.

Wow, love that last pic of the Squiggoth! The contrast between the red skin and the yellow armor is going to be awesome.

Re: Centipede model, I like the paint job, but that "river of skulls" makes me cringe a little . I.e. the "What's missing, let's put a skull on it" policy of GW these days

Well, my Necrons are intended to be reminiscent of the original "Terminator" movie flash-forwards where the machines are walking over beds of skulls & bones. That's why they're on the bone bases.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
super creamy blends.
Ill be watching with interest!

Coming from you this sounds so wrong!

Liking the squiggoth, Thinking the next few layers of yellow progression will make start to stand out.

 Solar_lion wrote:

 Ramos Asura wrote:
super creamy blends.
Ill be watching with interest!

Coming from you this sounds so wrong!

Who do ya think I am, nerdfest?

Everything looks great but thing that impress me most on your work is lenses. You just do them perfectly. Could you please explain to us your process or some kind of mini tutorial would be most appreciated.

I used vent's most excellent tutorial on Black Gem Technique.

My only additional comment is that a lot of times my blends do not make a nice clean line, so I go back in with black to clean them up and make them nice and sharp.

Next step: two layers of golden yellow.

Big Guy is coming along well indeed! The contrast in the colour scheme is great, reds and yellows are working fine together.

Thanks Lt, keep in mind this is still very early in the process. Even after the yellow blends are done, the additions of the metal bits and the sepia wash will change everything.

Next step... this is the brightest yellow the figure will get. I've got two shades, one is slightly brighter than the other... so I did them in order, darkest first.



You can see in the next shot that I also painted the smallest rivet, bolt and fixtures... that's in preparation for the next step (sepia wash). I figured these elements were too small to take their own special wash so I'm painting them now so I can do everything at once.

Positively glows. Great work.

... aaaand here it is with the sepia wash. You can see how it ties everything together nicely.



Next up, the spikes and the armor edges... this should give it some pop.

looks great gits

Looking very nice Git's, that yellow looks really good after the sepia wash.

I love the sepia wash... and use it liberally.
Looking great, Gits.

Good work, Gits'.
The colours work well together.

Some of the yellow gradients could be a bit smoother to bring it up to the level of the skin though. Bit of dry-brushing would probably do?