Oathsworn power painting challenge

So after all those amazing monsters these were a bit vanilla.

Lovely sculpts though and the fight was a lot of fun!

I’m not going to detail the painting method as it’s exactly the same as I used for my Slaine figures in my other project so look there if you are interested 🙂

So I decided to paint this guy a bit like a wasp. Wasps are of course utter twats. The Tories of the insect Kingdom. Literal vermin. I hate them.

Anyway after a zenithyl I decided to do the black first, abadon black then built up a bit with Vallejo dark sea blue and gradually added white grey. The black textured pay ahead looked ok but I used space wolves grey contrast to make it a bit more interesting. I then used a combination of dry brushing and edge hilights with white grey to build up the edges.

The yellow I started with averland sunset then flat yellow, golden yellow then increasing amounts of ivory.

For the wings I airbrushed terracotta to orange to yellow to ivory to create a shifting blend. I wanted these to look like butterfly wings and after painting the lines black I think they look pretty cool.

I finished by airbrushing grey then white on the eyes to give them reflection and finally locked out the tongue with. Emperor’s children and hilights up by adding ivory.

These three were a pretty quick job. Fur the main body it was turquoise contrast then blue glazed recessed and some edge hilights with a light gray.

I wanted the tentacles a bit weird so went with a mixture of sepia and orange hilighted with bonewhite.

The claws and horns I used rakarth flesh with agrax wash then gradually hilighted up to ivory.

Job done!

I actually painted this a month ago but it gaming group couldn’t get together then I was away for Christmas for two weeks so I’ve forgotten how I did this exactly haha,

I do know I based as usual. Then I decided I wanted to try and do dark armour with some OSL from the candles.

I painted the armour dark sea blue/black gray/purple to get a really dark purple base. I then airbrushed sports with very subtle lighter purple then concentrated up to ivory then white where there light would hit. I also edge highlighted with white. I used a yellow glaze on parts I thought would be hit by the candles. The rest was pretty simple using a mix of contrast and edge hilights. I won’t spoil it but he was an absolute nightmare to defeat which we managed with two casualties!

I’ve not updated this in a while BUT I have done four more bosses!

Unfortunately since Christmas our group has struggled to get together to play much for one reason or another and I’m not posting bosses till we actually play them or they will tell me off for spoilers! Bear with me….

Encounter 12 were the scar tribe. Really lovely sculpts and I enjoyed doing them thoroughly!

I tried a couple of experimental things, firstly I’ve been watching people using oils to blend in their painting, so I tried this on the skin which was fun but I kept just making it all the same colour through over working it and abandoned it, finishing it off with acrylics! Haha

Secondly, I tried using kind of small random patterns to texture the armour then bringing it together with a light green airbrushing, I liked that and think it worked well.

Finally I did then ask with a dark brown oil wash which helped make them pop!

We won this encounter quite easily but it’s was a really fun one.

I actually forgot this lot! It was the encounter prior to the scar tribe and boy did she kick our ass!

We were down to our last Oathsworn who had 2 health left before we defeated her.

Painting was easy, contrasts then picked out hilights and oil washed.

Lots of green and brown…..

Another boss I forgot to upload here!