More of that Sweet, Sweet Marvel

Next up I take the plunge at NMM. Just too much metal to do with metallics. At least, that’s what I’m saying now. We’ll see how I feel after a few hours of mucking about tomorrow eve.

I tried to document my painting of white but discovered the photos really don’t capture the difference in shading. If you’re interested:

1. Base 70.821 Ger C Beige WWII
2. First highlight 70.986 Deck Tan
3. Second highlight 70.918 Ivory
4. Final highlight 70.951 White

I use the pure white very sparingly but I may have been too generous with colors 2 & 3, yielding less variegation than I’d really like.

Next up, the Mad Titan himself!

This was a really neat sculpt (though I do worry about her long run structural integrity) and fun to paint as I haven’t done a great deal with purple to date.
Pretty much just used three different purples (all Vallejo) and lightened each up with increasing amounts of white for their respective highlights.
Skin (excepting the middle section of her face): 74.030 Violet Vamp

Clothes (and center of face): 74.027 Amethyst

Straps, thigh and elbow pads, edges of armor: 74.028 Witch Purple

His skin turned out to be a lot easier and quicker than I expected—base of (all Vallejo) 71.032 Golden Brown over Zénithal prime. Wash of 70.939 Smoke (maybe my favorite paint). That was pretty much it. I did throw some highlights on his face and threw thicker coats of Smoke over the knobby bits in his skin. My only concern is that his color palette is close to Groot’s. In time I may go back and lighten him up a bit. Or I may not.
I will say he went from being one of my least favorite of this bunch to—well, not my most favorite but I do like him a lot more than before. He has his own sense of proportion and until he was painted he just fell awkward and out of whack.

He has two glowing purple bits on him (done after the pic was taken) and I did what I should have done on Ronan’s hammer: 72.087 Violet Ink over 71.065 Steel (and make sure the Steel is fully dry before you break out the ink or you’ll have a muddy mess).

Now for the two sisters to finish up the Guardians affiliation and then a wrap up with Thanos.

Clothes (all Vallejo)

1. 70.823 Luftwaffe Cam Green
2. 50% 70.823 and 50% 70.922 Uniform Green
3. Pure 70.922
4. 50% 70.922 and 50% 72.033 Livery Green for the raised bits/borders

Arms, legs, and belt:

1. base of 71.065 Steel
2. a mix of 72.085 Yellow Ink and 72.089 Green Ink. I went mainly yellow on this so it would stand out/add variety.

I’d say he’s the least interesting sculpt in the range so far. But maybe that’s in keeping with his ethos/character: unimaginative.
Went with the comic color scheme of green but threw a bit of grey in to tone it down a bit and set him apart from Hulk, Ronan, and Gamorra. Also too heavily sprayed him with the matte varnish so he is a tiny bit shiny. If anyone has suggestions of how to dull him down I’m all ears.

Together…forever…as friends!

More brown. Tried to change the tones up for Rocket. Went a bit more cream/yellow than red/black.
Also kept away from metallics. The gun certainly isn’t NMM but I’m pleased with it. I didn’t want it to be the center of attention (as if that’s possible).

Lots of wood. Lots of brown. Tried to give him texture and variegation to add interest.

All Vallejo unless noted:

1. Base with 70.872 Chocolate Brown
2. Coat of Citadel Agrax Earthshade
3. Highlight with Chocolate Brown covering most of the surfaces
4. Highlight with 50% Chocolate Brown, 50% 70.847 Dark Sand. Started painting in large lines of texture.
5. Fine lines of texture and some general highlighting with Dark Sand
6. Wash with 70.828 Woodgrain over the whole surface
7. Wash with 70.939 Smoke in recesses/underhangs to create depth and shadow. Repeat as necessary
8. Final edge darkening with Smoke

Overall I think He looks pretty decent and has reasonable interest for a big block of brown. And yes, I know real trees aren’t really very brown but groot is.
I made a point to do the limb on Rocket’s base at the same time and in the same fashion so I wouldn’t get stuck trying to match what I did here later on.