Spring cleaning like a hobby butterfly

Waaagh Guff Nuggitz lives

Kind of went off on a tangent, I had an old orc army in a box collecting dust and I got the itch that could only be scratched by rebasing the fungasy dudes ready to bash some noggins in games of the old world.

I guess this can be classed as a spring clean as some of the force has been nocking around for more years than I can remember.

Speed paints and washes definatly increase the speed a project can be painted ready for the table.

It’s cool to finally have this force game ready and finished….. although nothing us truly finished I coukd maybe add a rock lobba and maybe a couple of pump waggons, I’m sure I have another giant somewhere and stone trolls look cool or maybe a goblin bolt thrower…. the list goes on.

Now back to moonstone

I kind of think I need to work out how to make a wash using the paint I have chosen.

It would be very useful to add some shading around all the small details on the models.

I tried watering down black which worked whilst wet but dried very matt and stained all the parts underneath not just the recesses.

I may try using lahmian medium rather than water next time to see if that works.

I also need to make sure I was the resin more thoroughly as some parts luckily in hard to see places still had a release agent on it so had a difficult time getting paint to take hold.

But lesson learned nothing a good scrub with some one else’s tooth brush and some washing up liquid won’t cure.

Turns out mixing colours is more complicated than it looks.

Saying that I’m pleased with how he turned out.

Forgot I was going to have to deal with metal parts so decided to go with a grey blue mix that is then dry brushed up to white. This looked OK until I gave the model a coat of matt varnish so went back in with satin varnish over the chain male and other metal parts.

Skin is also a lot harder to mix from primary colours than I thought, my first attempt the first time around was very very pink so I had to have some help from Rhi to get a more sensible flesh tone.