Studio photo update!

Finally remembered to upload some of the skorne photos I took using a studio camera the other day. About time :)

Bronzeback

Fairly happy with him so far! There are around 12 different textures in the grey skin and another 8 in the bronze, just trying to keep the leathery look. I'm pretty happy with the result though.

Let's see how the rest of it shows :)

Skorne time!

I've decided to actually play in a tournament at the end of November. I would *like* to use my brand new Skorne that was purchased last week, but I won't take em if they're not painted, so figured I had better get started.

My first to games were yesterday with Rasheth and Naaresh. Fatty was great fun, but I'm not sure he translates well to the 35pt level, so I'll start with a Naaresh list. He kicked butt in his game, so has earned a paintjob! 

I won't be doing the traditional Skorne red, but I'll let the colors develop without blatantly saying what I'm doing - that way if it doesn't work no-one has to know :)

Extreme Warpwolf

Painted this guy a while ago, but figured now was a good time to display!

I actually like the model a *lot* more than it looks in all the photos. This is really quite a nice model and I think it captures the whole warpwolf essence real well. When I had my circle, I loved fielding him! :)

Destroyer Extreme

So I finally got around to finishing off the companion 'jack to my Juggernaught. All in all, I think the Destroyer actually came together a bit easier than the Juggie.

After a good deal of effort and time, I'm finally really happy with how my reds came together. I think the final count was 30-odd coats of watered down red ink to make all the purples and peaches come back to red. It shows, though , and I like it alot.

He doesn't get as much table time as my Juggie, just because he's not quite as versatile, but he does have pride of place on my painting shelves :)

Trolls!

We all love a smattering of tough, blue, beer-guzzling giants in an army, and an entire army of them was just alot of fun.

Painting these guys taught me an awful lot and forced me to move my skills forward real fast. I went through a phase with my trolls where I wasn't actually shadowing anything - I was just building up the highlights from the darkest base colour I could pick. Quite time consuming, but I was fairly happy with the results. They led to a very natural, but subtle, effect across the whole thing.



As one would imagine, subletly started to drop by the wayside in the favour of more exaggerated highlights (and accordingly more obvious shadows). I experimented with a bit of inking and washing before settling down to a more usual technique, although mixed with a judicious amount of P3 Mixing Medium (that stuff is gold).



Don't have my trolls anymore - they weren't being played, they were finished being painted and it was time to clear out some room. I do miss them on occasion, and I've pretty well decided to stop selling stuff off in the future and just pick up another storage bag instead :)