Draconis: Spring Clean 2023 and onward

1st April 2023

I have been able to squeeze in some more progress on the Lumineth Underworlds warband this week.

For the colour scheme I had a rough idea of what I wanted, but no certainty. So I just starting out by putting a wash over the white armour panels and laying down some yellow contrast. To deepen the effect of the contrast, once it was dry I added some more contrast yellow, but just to the creases and folds in order to add some more definition. The Ironjawz yellow covers really well but doesn’t seem to have as much ‘contrast effect’ in one coat as some of the other contrast paints.

Then I went on to lay down more colours. Some pale blue and then some darker blue, including robe edging – definitely needed a smaller brush and thinned down paint for that 😊

Once I added the gold I arrived at one of those points that I often get in my painting progress – the ‘this looks like crap’ stage ☹

It’s at this point that the minis often get put off to one side, and sometimes never see paint again…… but since the whole point of the Spring Clean challenge is to get on with part finished or not started minis/projects, then I decided that I would just push on through and see how they came out.

I would normally try adding a wash to bring the colours together somewhat, but with white and yellow that didn’t really seem like an option.

So – to have a mental change, up next I will work on the bases, then come back to the rest. I am hoping that if I can have a good crack on over the rest of the weekend then I may be able to finish them off by midweek 😊