Resolution 2022: Hobby Bingo!

For the central “any” box I wanted to do something special. I’ve never painted a bust, so I printed off a bust of Kratos from God of War. I’ve always liked the character from all the way back in God of War on Playstation 2.

The model was undercoated chaos black. Throughout the model each colour has had several base coats applied, and then subsequent layers were a succession of blends through the colours stated.

The skin used rakarth flesh, flayed one flesh and pallid wych flesh.

The scars were picked out with reikland fleshshade.

His hair and the fur were painted with mournefang brown, nuln oil, and ulthuan grey highlights.

His eyes were painted screaming skull with zamesi desert irises and the pupils were drawn on with a technical pen.

I used a mix of pink horror and the remaining flesh tone on my palette for his lips and nipple.

The leather was painted with steel legion drab, agrax earthshade, tallarn sand and karak stone.

The folded hide on his back used xv-88, agrax earthshade and balor brown.

The metals were painted with leadbelcher and runefang steel.

His tattoos were painted with evil sunz scarlet.

His plinth was painted abaddon black and dawnstone was used to paint its cracks.

Kitbashing isn’t a part of the hobby that particularly appeals to me. Its only in the bingo sheet because I took the GW sheet and just made it system agnostic.

Over the years I’ve always clipped leftover parts off their sprues and stored them. At the moment I have 6kg of plastic bits. I thought this would be easy – but when I got started I found I had few parts to form the core of a model.

For the first kitbash I wanted to do a fantasy character. I had plenty of spare kingdom death models and I made slight change by switching the torso for a GW vampire in a corset.

The model was undercoated zandri dust.

The skin was painted bugman’s glow then highlighted cadian fleshtone followed by kislev flesh.

The armour was painted leadbelcher then highlighted ironbreaker followed by runefang steel.

The hair was painted  mephiston red and then highlighted evil sunz scarlet followed by wild rider red.

The sleeves were highlighted ushabti bone followed by screaming skull.

Then the whole model was washed seraphim sepia.

Here’s the sci-fi kitbash painted up. It’s a mix of space marine and admech arms and head. I really like the resulting asthetic.

When it came to painting it I decided to use exactly the same colours of the fantasy model – both as a challenge but also to save me having to put new colours on my palette.

This is a 3D print. Abere from the Beauty and the Beast kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printomancer/beauty-and-the-beast-stl-files-3d-models/description). The model printed with a number of artefacts you may notice in the wings and swords.

As part of the triplet with Lamashtu and Lilith, I used exactly the same colours but changed which colour was the main colour.

The skin was painted castellan green, highlighted loren forest then straken green. It was then washed in the recesses with athonian camoshade.

Back to painting! More Wood Elves, painted as before but with the addition of darkoath flesh for the stags.

My next box is to do two Treemen models. I’ve added gryph-hound orange to the colour palette to represent autumn leaves.

While I was using those colours I also did six bases of forest spirits and a forest wraith.

Another unit done. Some more archers. There isn’t a box left in the grid for them to occupy so no points this time.

Two boxes filled this time, and I’ve finished my wood elf 10mm project for the time being too.

I’ve done all the characters, plus a unit of warhawk riders. I feel that justifies a character box and a unit of 2+ box.

Only two more boxes to go in two and a bit months.