Mythic Battles: Pantheon by lawnor

I went through all the artwork and pulled out every model that has a large area of green scales.  I washed them, let them dry and based them with stones and mud.  Once it was all sealed and dry I primed everything with black and gave it a zenithal of very light grey primer and left overnight to dry thoroughly.  Anyone paying attention might notice I swap a model out after this stage.  I grabbed a lizard who is supposed to be red by mistake and didn’t realise until after I had painted him green.  I did some hurried catch up work after that!

I have painted some Gatormen before using the PP guide from Forces of Hordes – Minions as seen below.  I mostly liked the results, but the colour variation and contrast in the green scales wasn’t as great I’d have liked.  I’ll be trying a few different base colours in the project so I can compare results and see if I can find something I like better.  All the greens were applied through my airbrush.  I thinned the mix down and lowered the pressure to 10-15psi to allow the preshading to influence the end results.  here are the greens I have used on the models:

Python: VMC 70.922 Uniform Green

Echidna: VMC 70.922 Uniform Green

Basilisk: As from book, for comparison

Cecrops: VMC 70.890 Refractive Green

Medusa: Hakata B021 Medium Green (FS34102)

Colchidian Dragon: VMC 70.823 Luftwaffe Camo Green

Hydra: As from book

The underbelly colour was then painted as the the guide.  I airbrushed most of this for the hydra, but mostly brushed it on elsewhere to allow for cleaner boundaries between sections.  The first wash was applied all over the models and left to dry overnight.  The second wash was applied to recesses and the undersides.  Anywhere shadow might gather.  This was then left overnight to dry too.

I followed the highlighting stages as described, favouring a drybrush over the scales due to all that lovely texture.  I then went on to paint them with the same schemes as earlier models in this project with the following exceptions:

Fire:  This recipe is from AssetDrops July 18 box.  Firstly I undercoated white and then I painted the flames with Mr Paint’s Deep Yellow.  I then mixed this with a little Mr Paint’s Fire orange and painted over the yellow, avoiding the deeper recesses.  The next layer was just Fire Orange, again painting over the top but leaving a little of the previous layer showing.  Working further outwards and upwards, the next layer was a mix of Fire orange and Deep Red, and then just Deep Red.  All of the fire was then given a wash or two of Coat D’Arms Yellow Ink Wash, allowing it to pool a little in the recesses.  once dry, the very deepest recesses were given a gentle glaze of white.

Eyes: Red eyes were based with P3 Sanguine Highlight, higlighted with P3 Khador Red Base and then given a glint of P3 Khador Red Highlight.

Yellow Eyes were just painted with P3 Heartfire and given a black pupil.

Human eyes were painted white and given a black pupil.

Mouths: Based with P3 Khador Red Base and washed with GW Carouburg Crimson.  I highlighted with Midlund Flesh a little as best i could.  Access to inside of mouths was very limited.  There was an area at the back of the Basilisk’s mouth that would not take paint.  Its right by a join so I’m assuming the paint was being sucked in to that join.  There must be half a bottle of flesh pain in a void inside the basilisk somewhere.  Thankfully it has not leaked out anywhere yet and has hopefully dried before it can!

Female Snakeperson Flesh: This is the Pallid Flesh recipe from the Warmachine: Forces of Cryx book.  base with a mix of Ryn Flesh, Carnal pink and Trollblood Highlight.  Then add Traitor Green and apply as a wash.  The add Beaten Purple and wash once more.  The final dep shade is a wash of Beaten purple, Traitor Green and Midlund Flesh.  Highlight with a mix of Ryn Flesh, Carnal Pink and Menoth White Highlight.

Cecrops Flesh: This is the flesh recipe from the Warmachine: Forces of  Khador book.  Base with Khardic Flesh, wash with a mix of Khardic Flesh and Thornwood Green, and then with a wash of Skorne Red and Khadric Flesh.  The Dep shade is a wash of Thornwood Green mixed with Skorne Red.  Highlight with Midlund Flesh

Teeth: Teeth were painted P3 Menoth White Base and the tips were painted P3 Menoth White Highlight.

Blue Glowing Gem: I base coated with P3 Frostbite, then mixed some Frostbite with some P3 Arcane Blue and tried to put a little of this around the top of the gem.  I ended up putting both paints on wet at the same time along with some Menoth White Highlight on the bottom and encouraged the three to run into each other.  Once dry I made a glaze of frostbite and applied it over the whole mix.

Arrow Flights:  Based with P3 Sickly Skin and washed with GW Seraphim Sepia.  I painted the lines of the feathers back on the flights one dry.

The eyes, mouths and gems of everything were varnished with Gloss once everything had been sealed with its protective varnish coat (1 coat of Gloss, and then 1-2 coats of matt to remove the gloss effect, all from an airbrush)