Ugleb’s Gotham City Gallery

Well this one was fun to paint!  It is a fairly simple sculpt but probably one of my favourites in KM’s range.  It really captures the character for me with that bushy beard and kinda crazy eyes.  And of course, the Kryptonite arrow!

I have again tried my hand with some OSL and I’m quite pleased with how it has come out.  I have another tournament coming up soon and will likely be giving old Oly a run out.

I have made a start on the Frank Miller version of Oliver Queen as the old mad bastard Green Arrow. You might notice he only has the one arm, which is because he refused to cease his vigilante activities even after the US Government sent Superman after him. Can’t fire a bow with only one arm, right?

I am going for something similar to the comic look with simple muted greys/greens/browns. And I will try my hand at OSL again with that Kryptonite arrow.

Two more down!  First up we have my Diablo with attempts at Object Source Lighting!  I am guilty of not attempting lighting effects much in my painting and could probably stand to think more about lighting direction in my compositions.  And other such fancy terms.

As Diablo is conjuring a pillar of flame in his hand I have tried to lighten his sleeve, jeans and the stones on the base to depict the light source.  I darkened his jeans on the back and left side as I figure that is where the deeper shadows would fall.  Next time I think I should try to push the effect further with a greater contrast, but I’m reasonably happy with this as a first attempt.

I have also included some slightly better shots of the finished Enchantress.  While Diablo has stuck close to the movie colour scheme (honestly I was suffering a lack of inspiration that would work well with OSL), I did more of my own thing on Enchantress with dark blue hair and metallic gun metal blue/bronze for her outfit.

I haven’t updated for a little while but have been making progress on my Bat-backlog.  Unfortunately I took less decent WIP shots than I meant to, sooo…..

Another objective is done, this time the Contraband.  This was a nice simple one with a charred brown base coat and a fairly heavy beasty brown dry brushing. I hit it with the agrax earthshade (brown) wash and highlighted with heavy brown.

The guns are simply gun metal silver, nuln oil (black) wash and plate mail silver highlights. The nails and handles of the box are again plate mail silver.

Rolling on towards a tournament in just over a week, I have started work on the 2nd edition objective sets to up my meta game.

First up we have the Wayne Tech and Medical Supplies objectives, with a little bit of high silver drybrushing for weathering.

For the Wayne Tech I layered up Ivory White and Matt White, with the black areas shading up from matt black to heavy charcoal with a big of cold grey mixed in for the lighter highlights.

The medical supplies is a heavy red base coat highlighted with pure red, with stonewall grey bandings/bag cover using an ivory white mixed highlight. A bit of strong tone is used for shading recesses. The roll of bandages is bone white highlighted up.

After a bit of a delay I have wrapped up my League of Assassins additions and got some photos together!  Yay! Progress!

I have included pics of the main colours used, the German Fieldgrey is the basecoat and Russian Uniform was the main highlight for the bulk of the crew, while leather brown was the base for the leathers on the ninjas.  The league Agents were given a Khaki base for their lighter areas and highlighted with Bonewhite.

I’ve been a bit lax with the updates but I have been slugging away at the ninjas.

I have all the base colours and some high lights done across the five league ninjas. Photographing them all half decently is proving awkward so here is a quick snap of one to show where I’m going.

Moving forwards, I am getting base colours down on the League Agents and Lady Shiva. I am going a bit lighter and brighter on these as I feel it suits the minis better.

Lady Shiva is getting a colour scheme inspired by her appearance in the New52 Deathstroke run with a green outfit over her typical blacks and reds. I may yet change course on her coat and move further away from the henchmen colour scheme.