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woldwrath runes begins

I ended up applying the softbody black wash to recesses between the stone sections and in the cracks around the rings on the neck to help with the constrast abit.
I then thinned down some white and used a10-0 brush tip loaded up with very watery white to touch the widest inner parts of the runes and let the paint flow out of the brush into them...using the tip to guide the paint forward till it filled each .

There are some spots I need to touch up where the white got out of the runes...mostly around the face and the gem area above the head due to the very deep and sharp edge of the recesses but I'll go back and touch them up after I I finish the rest of the white.

Spent a few more hours this afternoon finishing the basic runes. The inner sides of the feet and thighs were expecially hard to do neatly.I'll have to spend time tomorrow cleaning up the edges of the runes tomorrow. My eyes are too tired from looking thru that mag light to continue anymore today.

woldwrath washing stone

applied a thin softbody black wash to the recessed areas and when that dried applied a layer of stone wash over the legs and hips.

the softbody black shows thru just abit making the recessed areas darker but not black..i think thats a better effect then the slate black paint I tried on the woldwatcher.
hardest part of doing a wash like this over such a big figure is not being streaky and or reapplying tomany times that it darkens to much.

fun times :)

 

knuckled down and got the rest of the stone wash applied before crashin lastnight.

 I like it but I'm wondering if its abit to dark and maybe I should go back and apply a light drybrush highlight over it all using mostly a very light grey with a touch of the stone wash mixed into it. I'll have to decide to night after work

Definately pleased this part is moving along so fast..tho I'm sure doing all the runes next is gonna be mind numbing :)

applied a very light bright grey/green drybrush highlight layer to try and brighten it up a bit after the wash

woldwrath washed

Got the  sewer water brown wash over the wood and ropes to shade ..I like the effect.
It did darken the inner wood abit to much and will have to lighten it but back up and with a layer or two of highlights over the ropes and wood they should be good

Next up I want to use a softbody black wash over the stone  areas where the runes are instead of the slate black paint..i think the transparency will help take the edge off. then after that its Stone wash time for the rest.

woldwrath basecoating continued.

basecoated the wood and drybrushed abit of highlights on it then basecoated the ropes and vines.

Working on a large figure like this with no airbrush is interesting..like cleaning the bathroom with a toothbrush ..just feels like you got the wrong tools for the job.
So everything is slow going but its fun once you zone out on it.
I have to give it a once over looking for any mistakes or missed vines etc.
After that I think I'm ready to apply sewer brown wash to the wood and ropes and then the softbody black and stonewash to the rock parts..

Heres couple pics with a zoomed in view of the vines and ropes on the legs

 

woldwrath drybrushing

so begins the drybrushing of the body.
did two applications getting progressivly whiter..probably gonna have to do 2 more before its at the point where its abit to white and ready for a stone wash.
Im thinking of adding some gold trim and red armor coloring to the back of the fists and on face helmet and gemt thing above head area..unlike the runes its sculpted the same as the armour designs in those area's and might look odd on their own but as a whole army it might serve to unify it abit.

heres a couple more layers of drybrushing..might be close to enough

army so far

just a quick shot of everything so far..