Pafetik Bazerkas Twisted

There is a hell of a lot going on with this mini. A construct of broken building, stone, wood and mechanical detritus bound together with moss, and ichor and spewing forth raw sewerage from its orifices. Many textures. Many colours. Many decisions.  I dont know who painted the example mini put forth in the kickstarter campaign, but I now I’m looking at the task I understand better the choices they made. Its difficult to find a different colour composition that works just as well.

One thing that irks me a little about the kickstarter example is the bright green water. Though it portrays the idea of toxic fluid well enough it lacks the thing that is most likely going to be in a London sewer…..shit.  But if I want to go with a more yellow brown fluid I have to amp contrasting colours elsewhere.

Below is a quick pass of thin coats and glazes to get a feel of where I think I want to go. Numbering with colour before I colour by numbers, if you will.

My plan is to make my sewage look like shit. Kahki with moments of yellow, green, and rust . The wood and brick will be basicaly wood and brick. The stone will lean to blue/basalt to add contrast and like the kickstarter example there will eventualy be heaps of moss and ichor to tie it all together..

pretty standard zenithing step for me.

1.Base coat of vallego suface primer black

2. mix my last bit of black with some Art Spectrum white ink and a drop of thinner then spray top down – 45degress

3. Spray a little pure white ink top down and where other light sources might shine.

4. Black wash everything.

5. Soft dry brush – I use a large makeup brush.

6. Detail dry brush and black & white highlight/lowlight passes till satisfied.

7. Remeber your painting over it anyway.

Assembly was pretty straight forward using CA. The lantern pole did require a tiny dab of apoxie sculpt at the join and there was some flashing on Cuttleberrys left cheek but other than that , not so much as a mould line.