Very Slow League of Infamy Project

I didn’t quite get the technique right.  There are 3 different shades of striations on the fur even though it only looks like one.  I was trying to roughly follow Vince Venturella’s hobby cheating  251 How to Paint Fur Texture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzk5DHKBEtY

The Lynxes had been primed in week 7 with IDF Israeli Sand Grey Vallejo Surface Primer then Titanium White Liquitex Acrylic Ink was sprayed from above.

The eyes were painted first so that any mistakes in that area could be covered later:

• Base coat Elf Skin Tone (Vallejo Game Color)
• Yellow Orchre (Vallejo Model Air) over the top of the base coat
• Black pupil

Some of the Elf Skin Tone was also added to the mouth.  The teeth were Bone White (Vallejo Game Color) followed by Army painter Strong Tone then re-highlighted in Bone White.

The base coat of the top half of the fur was Mahogany Brown (Vallejo Model Color) where as the bottom half was the IDF Israeli Sand Grey Vallejo Surface Primer.

Thin lines of IDF Israeli Sand Grey Vallejo Surface Primer mixed with Ivory (Vallejo Model Color) and flow improver were added to areas of the lower fur.  Some shorter lines of Ivory and flow improver were then added to highlight parts of the lower fur.

The upper fur had lines of Mahogany Brown mixed with Elf Skin Tone and flow improver added.  Then shorter lines of a lighter mixer and finally very short lines of the mixture mixed with Ivory.  Using a darker Caucasian skin tone like Barbarian Flesh may have worked better (Vince uses Sunny Skin Tone).

The markings round the face, neck and ears, plus the spotting were done using Liquitex Carbon Black ink.  The spotting was done following Gerry’s technique but with an empty metal ball point pen cartridge as my spotting tool (COGs only https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/gerry-can-how-to-add-dots-to-miniatures/).

Lynxes were gloss varnished then stuck to 20mm square bases.  The edges of the cut base that remained attached to the Lynx were smoothed out with filler and re-primed along with the rest of the base.  The rim was then painted Heavy Grey (Vallejo Game Extra Opaque) and the same basing material was added and sealed that I used on the Drakons.  Everything was then matt varnished.

What could I do to fix these if I had time and not a back log of miniatures?  I could do more striations over the top and deeper than the existing ones with more contrast between each smaller layer and add some grey to the spotting and markings.

Next week Dryads.