The Plog of Jericho

[Satan]

Nice work on the trolls and the rest.

Thanks! Gonna pop over and see what you've been up to now...

The dragon looks magnificent! I agree that it's the lighting that has let you down. Hopefully, you can take pics in the daylight when the season changes.

Thanks! If not then I'll try to take some pictures this weekend. I'm thinking I ought to make a habit of doing so, since I can't seem to find any army shots for example of my wood elves. I should probably get a setup ready on saturday and take pictures of the entire thing and then unit by unit. I think that'd be interesting for folks to see since I've got some big units - like 20 or so trolls and so forth...

I'm really impressed with what you've done with all the Forgeworld Nurgle stuff, I find it difficult to make out much in the way of detail from their own pictures of the models, much less form an opinion on them. However, having seen yours I can see that they are indeed up to their usual standard, especially once painted as well as yours. I have to ask though, was Kazyk as challenging to paint as he seems? Less in terms of actually painting him, but more in terms of deciphering the different areas of the model?

Thank you! Generally speaking I've found the 40k nurgle models to be better than the fantasy ones (though the plague ogres, Kayzk and Tamurkhan are all good). The trolls had some good details on them, but could've had more maggots and icons on them. Since I realized that the most interesting parts would be those that differentiate from the skin tone I decided to opt for strong contrast colours for those details like gold, pale skin, etc.

Since I didn't paint the base work on Kayzk myself I can't speak for his beast, but the way I see it the beast suffers from the same issue as the trolls when it comes to the skin areas not being particularly interesting. I think they could've sculpted a better rot beast TBH, or at least added some interesting/contrasting armour plating to it.

Kayzk himself was pretty clearly defined and has loads of details such as maggots, flies, pouches and tentacles. I highly recommend the model.

Very nice flesh rot effects, your grasp of detail is amazing.

Thank you! It's always tough getting the flesh right, but it lends itself very well to experimentation. For the plague ogres I've started with an ogryn flesh over a white basecoat, and I'm now trying out washing different areas with green, purple and red before giving the skin a drubrush highlight.

[juicytomatoes]

like 20 or so trolls and so forth...

oh, just 20?

Would love to see that!

[Sureshot05]

Just read through your blog and you've got a real skill there. The cockatrice is a real highlight, but your nurgly abominations are nice and disgusting. (?) Looking forward to seeing what you make of Keeper of Secrets as it's a superb model, but I've yet to see a paint job that makes me really feel they have got it perfect yet.

[Satan]

oh, just 20?

Would love to see that!

Consider your wish granted - here's the charge of the brigade of stupidity:









More or less painted in the same scheme with varying degrees of mutation - at least 6 of them work pretty well as treekin. Turns out there weren't more than 15 of them, and even those were hard enough to fit into a single frame.

Just read through your blog and you've got a real skill there. The cockatrice is a real highlight, but your nurgly abominations are nice and disgusting. (?) Looking forward to seeing what you make of Keeper of Secrets as it's a superb model, but I've yet to see a paint job that makes me really feel they have got it perfect yet.

Thank you! I'm pretty pleased with the cockatrice, and I hope I find a use for it as something or other when GW decides to release a new WE army book. In regards to the keeper I'm thinking I'd like to use it for 40k, which means it'll have to be dipped in order to fit in with the rest of the army. Upon seeing it's geigeresque look I got to thinking that it is somewhat similiar to Shiva and thus I've decided upon a black and gold colour scheme with vivid red details. Question is how I'm going to accomplish dipping black - any ideas?

Also, here's how far I've gotten. The dreads are a total *explicit*:

[Satan]

For the second post of the day, and to show off my inability to focus on a single project (must.stop.buying.stuff) I've applied 3 washes to the ogres skin, and now I'll be drybrushing the skin with a couple of highlights:





Also finished assembling the Brass Scorpion. That's the toad dragons tail in the picture:



Also trying to apply some basing to the toad dragon. Bit of a challenge that one really, pouring dirt across PVA on the custom movement tray I'll be using for a base, and all across the apartment. Clearly miniatures are not a hobby that lends itself to cleanliness:



Still got to apply another layer of dirt...

[Satan]

Evening gents'. Whilst the local edition of the ESC is busy blaring out it's cacophony of miserable mewling gut-wrenching sounds in the first of several bouts (I believe there are as many of 5-6 of them in this country) I've been drybrushing ogres with elf flesh followed by pallid flesh. Snapshots taken with and without flash to follow:









A somewhat unexpected side-effect of drybrushing on top of washes is that the tone of the wash actually ends up being perceived as darker due to the brighter shades being covered by the new paint. As such, I've never really liked the new washes, even though I know most people do... I've decided that the green and purple tones as well as the overall skin tone is OK, but the reds will have to be given the blood treatment I've applied to the trolls and my other nurgly stuff, consisting of red gore, blood red highlights and pink edging. I'll prolly also apply a shade of bright grey or even white drybrush around the faces.

The original plan was to apply some more base colours and then a watered-down coat of ogre flesh again across the entire miniature, but seeing how strong the contrasts one the flesh ended up post-drybrushing I think I'll skip that step now.

[Saul Tarvitz]

I'm really liking the flesh tone on those Ogres Satan, it seems to have been fairly easy to do but gives a very effective result.

[mrtn]

Have you tried dry brushing before applying the wash? I find that works well. The wash then takes off some of the starkness of the dry brush.

[Satan]

I'm really liking the flesh tone on those Ogres Satan, it seems to have been fairly easy to do but gives a very effective result.

Thanks, it came out pretty well in daylight and I think it works, but like I said the washed areas sometimes look a bit too dark. Overall skin tone's great though.

Have you tried dry brushing before applying the wash? I find that works well. The wash then takes off some of the starkness of the dry brush.

I usually use different layers of drybrushing and washing, but I guess I could do a base coat w. drybrushing and the use a watered down wash. Thanks for the tip, I've pretty much given up on the drubrush/wash combo. It's not like dipping where the substance stays off the raised areas and just enters the recessess. I've just given the manticore a final light grey drybrush and it looks... OK I guess, but I longe somewhat for getting back to painting wood elves, where the paintjobs are way more complex than something I'd paint just for kicks in a game.

[Satan]

Anyone else who's got the tamurkhan miniature? The one arm's kind of funny - nothing I can't fix by bending it, but it seems the axe handle ough to be straight and not bent?

Anyway, as I was hoping to use the toad for SoM and possibly other stuff I'd like to leave tamurkhan off, but can't seem to find a good place for any magnets. He seems to be pretty solid if just placed on the top of the toad, so maybe I'll just stick with doing so.



Hector Rex - fantastically detailed miniature. FW at its best:



Also, on my painting desk in addition to the toad, scorpion and all the other stuff currenty hiding away from the prying eyes of my beloved in cupboards around our stylish apartment - part 1:



Manticore done bar the basing and a couple of claws. Will finish it tomorrow and must try to finish ogres by friday since I plan to use them in an ogre army on saturday. Painting desk shot part 2:



Those FOW tanks have been sitting there for far too long. Really must finish them...

Also, a bonus shot of a display shelf full of tightly packed Daemons:

[juicytomatoes]

Thanks for the shot on the trolls! They look great!

Also finished assembling the Brass Scorpion. That's the toad dragons tail in the picture:

Now this deserves a funny caption... the toad dragon seems to be using its tail to caress the 'cheek' of the brass scorpion!

[Tzarinchilla]

[QUOTE=Satan;6073171]I usually use different layers of drybrushing and washing, but I guess I could do a base coat w. drybrushing and the use a watered down wash. Thanks for the tip, I've pretty much given up on the drubrush/wash combo. It's not like dipping where the substance stays off the raised areas and just enters the recessess.QUOTE]

One thing I found was that if you add a little bit of acrylic based thinner and a tiny touch of washing deturgent to the wash it actually runs better over the model leaving the raised areas nearly 100% clean.

Loving your Tamurkhan minis though. They are looking great so far. Looking forward to seeing the Toad Dragon underway as I fancy one of those beasties myself.

[Satan]

Thanks for the shot on the trolls! They look great!


Now this deserves a funny caption... the toad dragon seems to be using its tail to caress the 'cheek' of the brass scorpion!

Now that's a love child I wouldn't want to see! Though I do wonder at the emotional state of the Brass Scorpion as this is happening. Is he in a happy place y'think?

One thing I found was that if you add a little bit of acrylic based thinner and a tiny touch of washing deturgent to the wash it actually runs better over the model leaving the raised areas nearly 100% clean.

Loving your Tamurkhan minis though. They are looking great so far. Looking forward to seeing the Toad Dragon underway as I fancy one of those beasties myself.

Thanks for the tip! And do you know, I just found an old bottle of vallejo thinner amongst my paints. Figures. I've always had issues with the devlan mud bottles, figured I'd try it out on one and see if that helps. I hope to get started on the Toadie by next week, seeing as how I'm currently out with a cold and still racing to finish those ogres by friday (looking unlikely). Anyway, there'll be shots of the finished manticore later!

There'll be more Tamurkhan miniatures later on, with a line-up consisting of plague toads w. riders and the FW ltd Hellsmith.

[juicytomatoes]

Now that's a love child I wouldn't want to see! Though I do wonder at the emotional state of the Brass Scorpion as this is happening. Is he in a happy place y'think?

The horror! I hadn't thought of the resulting love child until you mentioned it!
The Brass Scorp does look like he's in a state that would be best termed as 'gently aroused'...

Wait! You said the Brass Scorpion is a 'he'... now I'm wondering about Toadie here...

[Satan]

The horror! I hadn't thought of the resulting love child until you mentioned it!
The Brass Scorp does look like he's in a state that would be best termed as 'gently aroused'...

Wait! You said the Brass Scorpion is a 'he'... now I'm wondering about Toadie here...

Well... to be honest. The toad has... "parts" on the sculpt. Not sure, but it might be a "she" in the book even...

Anyway, update on the ogres - I painted two pairs of pants in Desert yellow, applied a Khaki highlight and then a thinned wash of devlan mud (Thanks again for the tip Tzarinchilla!), but the highlights washed out so I reapplied a highlight of bleached bone. For the second one I went for a bleached bone highlight straight away instead of khaki, but the devlan mud was a bit too strong still (should probably have gone for ogre flesh instead) and I ended up applying a highlight of bleached bone there afterwards again.

For the final one I'm using a couple of "orange-y" shades of brown. Haven't washed it yet, but will reapply a highlight there as well to make sure they get the same effect. Just blood, bone, metals, some washing and basing left now:





I was hoping to use them this weekend, but with workout after work tomorrow and a dinner-date planned by the missus on friday that somehow seems unlikely at this point. Well, after them it's on to... the toadie I think.

[juicytomatoes]

Well... to be honest. The toad has... "parts" on the sculpt. Not sure, but it might be a "she" in the book even...

They actually sculpted 'parts' onto the toad? That's really disturbing...

The painting on the pants of the ogres are very impressive. They look really worn and old. I especially like how you did the paintjob on the knees area.

[Satan]

They actually sculpted 'parts' onto the toad? That's really disturbing...

The painting on the pants of the ogres are very impressive. They look really worn and old. I especially like how you did the paintjob on the knees area.

Thanks! Pretty pleased with those knees. :-)

I'll get you a pic of alleged "parts". In the meantime here are some hurried shots of the finished manticore:







I think it turned out pretty well in the end, despite some issues with the skin tone, which required successive washes and drybrushing to get right.

[juicytomatoes]

I'll get you a pic of alleged "parts".

Ooer... That sounds wrong on so many levels...

The color scheme of the manticore is very apt. The wings are very nicely painted too. What's the recipe for the skin color?

[Satan]

Ooer... That sounds wrong on so many levels...

The color scheme of the manticore is very apt. The wings are very nicely painted too. What's the recipe for the skin color?

Thanks man! The skin's white undercoat followed by 2 coats of purple wash, drybrushed with bright grey, then washed with purple and drybrushed again. Turned out better than expected, and here are a couple of shots in what passes for daylight this time of year:







We we're playing a storm of magic game yesterday and I brought a bit of my stuff along. Whilst they didn't get to see any action I still took out the trolls and after giving them a second look I must say they look pretty sweet:

[Satan]

And here's the monster table. We didn't use all of it of course, but we went along letting people pick stuff in a random order to use in their games:






Oh, and just for you juicytomatoes: