Painting: Scythean WIP (3)

Ok, so here we are on step 3 of my process for my Everblight beasts.  I have primed the model, and painted the base.  Now all I am going to do is Wash all the skin with Wonder Wash Blue (I'll do an article on Wonder Wash soon).  This gives me a good blue shade base to work with while taking care of recesses on the model.

As you can see on the picture below, at this stage I care mainly about covering all the areas that I need to be this color.  Your second concern is that there is a bit of "pooling" of the wash in the recesses of the mini, this is something else I'll explain when I talk about washes in another article but the main thing is to make sure it's going to do the "shading" you want it to do by running into the recesses and hopefully drying darker there.

Now we don't want to get the wash on areas where this particular shading does not belong.  You want to "try" to be as careful as possible but the was will inevitably get in areas where it doesn't belong and at this stage that's ok.  Like I said before the main idea is to at least make sure it gets everywhere it does belong.

The next step is going to be do do the "highlight" color for the body / skin.  I am not sure how I am going to be breaking out the models in the future, I might combine some steps I might not.  I figured I would at least do 1 model where every single step was addressed...  Oh and yes I did something out of sequence (cleaned up the base from the base paint run off and did some quick line of sight lines, I had a tourney come up and needed this dude that's why)...  more to come!

Painting: Typhon (Finished)

Finished Typhon yay! Only to table top quality (which I may or may not have mentioned before) which  it's what I've decided to do for now so I can get my stuff painted already! After priming it Skull White I washed it with blue Wonder Wash as mentioned in the WIP article.  The next step was to paint the base.  Painting the base (at least the way I do it since I mostly dry brush) sometimes messes up the other colors so I do that first.  I usually do the base Chaos Black > Graveyard Earth (Heavy Dry Brush) > Desert Yellow (Dry Brush) > Bone White (Light Dry Brush).  After the base paint, I touched up any portions of the model that got any of the base paint on them.

Next was the Icy Blue for the skin.  I do this in a combination of Dry Brushing and Over Brushing.  Basically just right to not get too much in the cracks of the muscles but not too little like dry brushing only so make sure there's some good definition.

Following the "Highlights" I touch up the parts that I need staying Skull White to get them ready for the Gryphon Sepia Wash (GW) then I wash them.

Next I do the gums with Dwarf Flesh > Wonder Wash Red to give them a "live" look.

To wrap things up I "clean" the edges of the base by painting them black.  From here I may or may not add snow and such to the base.  I have a couple of my beasts in queue to paint but after those any that I start I'll try to do a step by step with pictures so that my method is more clear, and after that I'll probably do an article or more on my madness method lol... more to come!

Painting: Typhon WIP

I've started on Typhon.  Decided to paint him up next since he's in quite a bit of my Legion lists and  figured might as well.  Typical color scheme for my legion, prime White, Wonder Wash Blue on the skin is my first step.

Next step will be the base and then I'll do the Icy blue drybrush/overbrush over the rest and clean up the white "chitin" areas and Greyphon Sepia that.  After all that then the gums. More to come...