In Cold Blood Part III

Looking good, scaley buddies!

Sorry for the long radio silence - yet another Ofsted inspection.

However, work has continued apace on my son's Lizardmen - specifically the Carnosaur.

As with the previous one, I set to work with the airbrush. But this time I did it over a white primer, giving a much more vibrant colour.

A couple of filters and pin washes help add a little more depth

And then some purple stripes.

Final daylight colour check on the skin before detailing and the base reveal it to be... well, blimey. A bit on the bright side. 

Helped along the way by having come company when I paint; and, as an added bonus, I found a use for those bloody mantic orcs. 

Here's the final beast with the base and detailing done. 

Overall, I'm very happy with it - and perhaps, more importantly, so is the Eldest. I'll update this with the rider when he's finished but up next:

In Cold Blood

My eldest son - and the youngest, to be fair - is obsessed with dinosaurs. Every since I fixed up that old carnosaur he's spent ages in the kitchen looking at it and trying to get hold of it. The same happened with the dragon.

About two years ago he caught sight of the new plastic GW Carnosaur and immediately called it a dragon. Every so often he mentions the 'big dragon' again. Last week I needed a wash and popped to the new Warhammer shop that's opened in town, eldest in tow.

I didn't get the wash because he kept dragging me away from the paint stand going ""Daddy look at this... it's sooooooo cool." The thing he liked the most? The carnosaur. Obviously.

I'm a weak man.

A quick.bit of googling proved that eBay prices for the new carnosaur are not low and that for the price of a new carnosaur you could buy one of the Start Collecting boxes which includes a shedload of figures.

So...

Honestly, he wasn't this excited at Christmas.

First thing was to sort out the colour scheme; the Eldest suggested that he wanted his Carnosaur to be blue, so I had to find a way to do the lizards in a colour that would strongly contrast with that.

Inspiration in hand I cracked on. The basic technique was the same I used on my new bloodbowl teams and the Great Goblin; zenithal prime followed by inks, transparent paints and glazes.

This had the advantage of creating very vibrant colours which is what I wanted for these High Fantasy models - very different to the Low Fantasy middle earth palette I've been using a lot recently.

Trim and details was done picking up on the meso-American feel; lots of gold and turquoise with bright yellow/orange feathers.

Overall I'm very happy with these but I'm going to try a couple more with some different skin tones for the Lizardmen- purple and orange, I think.

The eldest is very happy with them.

Mojo Rising

I found my mojo. 

And the reason? I had some help:

"The knight is on a dinosaur, Daddy. It's perfect."

I am happy he is so easily pleased. In this case it was a dark elf on Cold One; so pretty much a knight on a dinosaur. 

The Norman Knight bravely attacks the Dragon. The other Knight is living on the Mountain. There were quite a lot of dead knights by the end of things. 

I don't mind admiting a certain level of nervousness especially when he starting flinging the carnosaur about but, at the end of the day, they're toys. No point being precious about them. I refuse to be That Guy. 

I'm going to try and get them shaded and highlighted tomorrow. 

Carnosaur

Well, it's finally finished. I need to figure out a saddle and choose which of my old miniatures will get the honour of riding it into battle at the head of my Evil Dragon Rampant force.

To recap (the good pictures are at the bottom if you want to scroll down):

 It arrived looking like this:

Stripped and scraped away:

Overall colour scheme was to match this:

Base coat was done with the airbrush:

and now the final shots: