Incubi Complete

Last night I finished up my incubi. They look really nice. I'll try to talk Mike into helping me get a better photo, otherwise they will just have to wreak havok on the gaming table. 14 hours total. Just under 3 hours a fig. While that is a tad higher than my average with the swordsmen, these models had a lot more detail and over twice the number of painting steps. Alsi I barely used the fine detail brush for anything on these models. They were almost entire painted with a regular detail brush!

Incubbi Test

Tonight I painted my incubbi test model. They are perhaps one of my favorite units this army has as these dragonspawn burst out of fallen troopers to claim revenge on unseuspecting foes. The basic paint job is similar to the swordsmen, only with about 6 more layers of paint around the red (bloodier) areas of the model. While the picture doesn't show it very well the red areas look a bit wetter which looks extremely nice. Unofrtunately I will lose that effect once I clear coat the model as it tends to dull everything. I might have to pick up a small bottle of glossy clear coat and hand paint it on over the fleshy areas to ensure they stay wet and gory looking. To do the red shading I painted the skin blue (like the other models) first. Then I painted a whiter color over the areas I wanted even redder. Used the new Games Workshop red wash, Highlighted with a pink color. Washed everything red again to dull out the pink (and make it redder) and finally highlighted once more with just a very small amount of pink to achive that third level of highlight. I am glad I only have five of these models to paint as it is a lot of work and took about 3-4 hours to complete. I can speed some of that up as I had to wait for a lot of drying time as there were four layers of skin washes overall.

20 Swordsmen Complete

So tonight I finally finished my swordsmen! I spent 12 lining the armor, 3 nights at 5-6 hours a piece painting up the rest of the details and about 5 hours basing & painting the front arcs on all 20 figs. That's 35 or so hours (perhaps even closer to 40 in case I miscalculated). That's an average of 2 hours per fig! They all look great like the test fig or better however I no longer have Mike's awesome setup for photography and I must say I am completely blown away at how crappy the photos turned out. If I saw these things on eBay I'd laugh and say no way would I ever buy this crap. I think it's only in part due to the light box, but mostly due to this camera having a really bad macro function. I'll have to look into acquiring a better brand.

Alas, even though they look crappy I've uploaded the images as proof that my job is complete. I'll have to get a better picture at some point.

Going Down to Yuma

Held a weekend long painting extravaganza. Here is my Lylth and my test swordsman figure (others are still being worked on.