Ankh

Took me a dog’s age but now Ptah is done. And with that, all of the gods from the core box are painted.
Next up: the monsters.

(Edit: I neglected to shade his chin beard and the gems under his left arm so I went back and did that. Also, I decided to make the broad bits under his right gems and so went back and put in the bright white reflections there, bringing them into line with the rest of the gems. Whew! Now my OCD can take a break!)

In the end I’m pleased with how he turned out. Nice gradient on the feathers, nice gradient on the back of his cloak, overall a dark and menacing, or at least somber, tone as befits the god of the underworld.

Jewels are good, NMM is so so. I may have to hit the NMM and his right eye again (it feels off but only in the picture) after I live with it for a bit.

Only one more god (Ptah) to go from the core set before I move on to the guardians. Hippos with nipples here I come!

Still have to finish the NMM and his feathers. However, I think I’m happy with the cloak, particularly from the Lloyd perspective. I may mud it up a bit on the edges but I haven’t decided.
I had fun playing around with trying to create a gradient. I just kept using washes/glazes (I don’t really know the difference)—really just very thinned out coats of various colors. I could have used the airbrush but this was oddly relaxing for me.

The top bit of the wing just wasn’t sitting right with me so I took another stab and I think I’m getting my eye in on this NMM stuff.

My new rule is that if it looks like metal when you catch it out of the corner of your eye then it’s good. If it catches your eye in a weird way then it still needs work.
Not sure if that was the bit that was bothering Gerry in the Hobby Hangout but I’m a lot happier with the result.

Osiris is a neat sculpt but, his garment(s) are pretty one note. I obviously still have a way to go on them but I’m trying to decide on a way to make him a bit more striking/interesting on the tabletop.

My current thinking: given that he is the god of the underworld (in CMON’s careful scholarship on Egyptian religion and culture–no really, as far as I can tell they didn’t name any of the gods after Kiwi farmers like they did with Rising Sun) I’m thinking shade up (literally: dark at the bottom, shading to bright/white the higher up him you go) from black to brown-green and then to the white/off-white of his wrappings.

Other suggestions are entirely welcome.

Also, I think my poor priming shows up here. It’s particularly bad on Osiris (though Ra was pretty bad as well). It was Army Painter white and I’ve had really good results from them most of the time. I suspect I didn’t shake the can enough and I’ve gotten a shaker that attaches to my electric drill to keep that from being an issue in future. However, my main plan to avoid similar issues is by priming with an airbrush–which, of course, will just shift my struggles to fighting with my airbrush. But at least I’ll learn a bit more about my airbrush and immediately see it if I have crap coverage.

Woah duplicate posts! Woah I say!

I definitely did not do this. I’m guessing the server is having mega-issues.

It turns out that the Instagram gods don’t like it when you caption a post simply as “Isis.” At least, that’s why I think they removed my post. ?

It turns out that the Instagram gods don’t like it when you caption a post simply as “Isis.” At least, that’s why I think they removed my post. ?