Turelio's Hobby Hoard

These are the steps I used for painting the frogs. As mentioned a few times previously, I did a large surface area on these with the airbrush to speed up the large areas that I had to paint, which could be covered and highlighted a lot quicker than with a brush. Back markings (Airbrushed): Base - Calthan Brown and Red Gore (1:1) H - Khemri Brown and small amount of Red Gore Some dots of latex masking fluid were put over the area to later create the dots on the back. Belly (Airbrushed): Base - Bestial Brown and Tausept Ochre (1:1) H - Kommando Khaki The belly was covered with a layer of masking fluid to block out the area I wanted left 'white'. Skin (Airbrushed): Base - Chaos Black, Warlock Purple, and Camo Green (1:1:1) H - Camo Green H - P3 Sulphuric Yellow with a small amount of Camo Green H (Brush) - P3 Sulphuric Yellow At this point, all the masking fluid was peeled off, leaving the previous two layers to show through. Eyes (Back to the paintbrush from here on in): Base - S...

OK, these are the finished photos of the Eureka frog troops. I won't blab on with how I painted that; I'll leave it for the next post. But here are the photos! The base is a wood tray lasercut by Aetherworks which I added texture to and painted. Now, for the individual frogs... CMON Link: http://www.coolminiornot.com/283530

OK, these are some work in progress shots of my Eureka frog troops. I posted one of these a while ago which was done up a bit like a test subject. I had a good idea of what I wanted them to look like, but needed to make sure that I could get them done properly. The main thing I did differently with these was that when I airbrushed them, I did different areas of them in different layers, masking them as I went. So I did them red/brown area on the back, and masked it off in dots. I then airbrushed the bellies, masked them off, and did the rest of the skin. Once finished, I peeled off the liquid latex mask that I had put down to leave the green skin with the darker dots on the back and pale bellies, but without having to carefully layer up each colour and fix up mistakes. Once the main colours were done, I just had to finish off the smaller details, which on these models were mainly the hammers, the webs on the toes, and the eyes. On a few of the 'higher ranking' miniatures, there...

OK, I'm back, and updating now because I can't sleep... I can blame the lack of updates on a few different things, but in the end it comes down to time, and the priorities I was putting on different things. As a result, I've also got very little painting done. Two Paint Klub entries never got completed, and I'm waiting till I get some other stuff out of the way before I try to do any more of those at the moment. But I have gotten back into the swing of things and started painting things for once. And at the same time, I'm starting to work on some entries for Little Wars in a few weeks. So this is what I have planned at the moment... Open: Guild Of Harmony Necromancer OK, I admit I have been trying to get this guy finished for a while. I really like the model, but I can never get far enough into the model without messing it up, and keep stripping it back. Previous colour schemes were rejected until I was happy with a green and beige scheme that I stumbled on ages ago...