Well, we're getting there bit by bit. Via the simple expedient of packing the kids off to nursery I've freed up some hobby time. Slow going on the painting due to being asked to have a game of WFB for the first time in two editions. So that required some hard graft in drawing up an army list.
It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
In other news, I think I've cracked the zombie skin in a way which I'm more or less happy with. Vallejo dead flesh with a wash gives a decent base colour, although a little warm:
Highlighting with dead flesh/bleached bone cools it down again and restores the slightly sickly hue:
All the base colours are blocked in now, so it's just highlighting and detail work left to do and then we're on to landscaping. As per usual, highlighting black is a joy; I'd sadly forgotten the last lot of painting I'd done in which I'd simply shaded down from grey to get black and painted my Covenanted Men in base black, leaving me the fun (hah!)of mixing various greys and then blacks to shade again. Anyway, they are also done:
I don't think this one will be finished until the end of next week but I have hopes that it will look pretty close to what I had in mind.
Superb! Love the zombies particularly, great job Herbert.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Michael. Like I say, I'm aiming to get it looking like it did in my head and it's well on the way.
DeleteLooking good so far. Oh, and I'm not a teacher ;)
ReplyDeleteCouldn't you at least pretend in the name of statistical consistency.
DeleteVery spooky zombies. I have a mess of Mordor Orcs to paint up and I should steal your technique, I think it looks pretty orkky.
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it, I have a load of Mordor Orcs to paint for She Who Must Be Obeyed. I wonder how it would look with a blue/
DeleteGreen wash, was the part of the sentence the iPad decided to eat.
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