Turelio's Hobby Hoard

Just a quick post to say that there will be some updates later in the week. I've been busy with demon entries, but now they are finished, I will get some updates happening a bit more regularly.

OK, these are some photos of the base! At the moment, I need to add some water to the shallow at the foot of the base, however the rest of the work is done!

So, my Golden Demon projects have started (Although by the time this goes up, they will be well under way). The first plan is the Dark Elf Dreadlord. Below are some photos taken during the model being painted. The blue was airbrushed on the get a smooth a coat as possible to the armour so that I could work from there. I then started working on the head. The plan is to have the model quite dark, but the face pale so that it stands out and draws the eye. The colours were blocked in as I got some feedback that seemed to be under the impression that I was doing a monochrome model, which wasn't the plan. Once the main colours were in place, I started blocking in freehand and designs so that I could mess around in the area, without having to finish once area and then wreck it once I went over it to do the freehand. Up next, the base!

These are some quick photos I took of a bit more work I did on Hwesta during a painting night recently while my back was playing up (And I therefore had no interest in painting Golden Demon entries). While I was painting, these were being uploaded to my Twitter account , which is where I am able to post them straight from my painting table without starting a new blog post. The plan for her is to make the colours a bit more obvious, just so she stops getting targeted as a zombie accidentally again...

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...