ekaya highlighting started

haven't had much time to work on things this week but did get alittle bit more done.
ended up painting over the tiny armour around breasts and belt red then lightly detailing as good as I could with gold.
gave all the bronze a coat of gold to clean up the trim and then used redblack wash over all the red armor.
I think its looking better

did some orange brown leather highlighting on the shirt and pants then abit of sewer wash overtop for more shading.
gonna have to work on hightlights now ,,wash made it all bit to dark.

more ekaya work

got most of the base coating done..started shading the cloak.

eKaya basecoating progressing

little more work done..eyes are hard when they're this small.

jsut working on basecoating eKaya and wanted to comment reaper paints are fantastic! after two coats of some mystery flesh color the detail is very clear and its nice and smooth.

Winter Argus completed and an Army update

So got everything gloss coated and 20hr dry then dullcoated and based and dried. Heres the final product and a quick pic of everything together to see how the themes working.

Epic Kaya begins

I'm just waiting to get a can of Gloss Clearcoat to finish basing the Winter Argus and in the meantime i'm moving onto eKaya.
Here she is ..let the painting commence!

winter argus ready for basing

so finished putting a red-black wash over the armor which I think helped abit..its subtle but better. I added gold layer over the bronze as well, trying to just stick to the upper parts.

finished highlighting the claws and cleaning up lips abit I think the claws work..they look like my dogs heh.

Also finished the leather straps and all the steel rings and rivets. Did abit of work trying to clean up the last of the streaks from the wash on the fur.
I think I'm gonna skip trying to add a highlight to the red part of the armour
I think its done except sealing and basing.

winter argus progressing

still working on the argus ..cleaned up most of the mess from the fur gotta decide how to proceed witht he armor

Winter Argus Progress

got some more washes done little secret weapon sewer water on the back then a light black wash  overtop the
some minor highlighting with my mystery free paint from reaper.

Reaper Delivery Arrived!

Great news my small reaper order arrived! Yah!

but one of the brushes I was waiting for is out of stock  Boo!
But they thru in a free sample of paint I didn't pay for! Yah!
 but its not labled so I can't be sure which paint it is...DOH!
Heres the mystery color..now to figure out which paint color it actually is!.

winter argus experiment continued.

so did abit of detailing and tried an orange brown wash.

winter argus experiment

So i'm not sure how I should do this so I'm just kinda freeform laying colors to try and get an effect.
this is one of the pictures I'm using as a guide.

so right now its very sloppy and i'm just trying to build up some colors like this..

after this I'm thinking of trying a wet drybrush tecnique that short brushstrokes in single direction to blend the colors and make it look more like fur/hair.
experimenting on lid like this.

if it works should be good.if not I'm might just have to strip t all off and start over :)

did some more work tryign to clean up the patchiness

 

Winter Argus

started basecoating the winter argus..I'm going to attempt to paint it to be more a red wolf color fur.
for now just laying down a creme white color base with a hint of orange in it.
It will need at least one or two more coats before starting to mix in other fur colors

Druids of Orboros complete

All done heres finished photo

Finished 5th and Working on final Druid of Orboros

so got the fifth finished and based I think it turned out well. Definitely needed to thin down the Quickshade.
The sixth is coming along well..decided on a platnium blond druid..cuz well they're druids.

after this guy is done  I gotta pick the next one.. thats primed and based.

Highlighting 5th Druid

now that I got my paint rack assembled back to working on the Druids of Orboros.
5th is almost done..just gotta give it a once over in the AM and clean up any mistakes then its ready to dip and on to the last one of this unit..finally!

Back2Base-ix arrives!

Got a delivery from the land downunder today. Downside got charged 24 dollars for Duty and import taxes on a 100dollar value product.
But moving beyond that I 3 sections of a sectional paint rack. pretty great overall but there are a couple flaws I'm hoping the company will rectify for me.
I decided to go with a Blue base color with a dark transparent grey top color..in retrospect I probably would have gotten the light transparent grey.

every piece of plastic has some pretty sticky protective paper attached...that took longer to remove then assembly did.

Heres work space before .

and heres the assembled 3 sections.

and finally with all the paints put in its place still have to transfer the flocking materials to the jars to make more room.

now I just need Reapers Kickstarter Paints to start shipping and I'll fill up all the open holes :)

starting 5th

things are progressing along nicely.Got the 4th druid done except basing. I've started the 5th.. not much to say at this point I'm just trying to improve on how I do these but still trying to keep them pretty much the same since they're a single unit

almost done 4th