I dabbed on some white with a bit of spongy foam on this guardian in an attempt to make dense star looking patterns and got mixed results. I accidentally put on too much paint in some places so it globbed together into a solid streak instead of looking like a clump of individual stars. But in other places I got the desired effect. I couldnt get the very deep into any recesses without smearing the white so I’d recommend this technique for wide spaces rather than textured ones.

It’s also possible I had too much paint on the foam in the first place, I only did one test so I can’t claim to have a deep understanding of how this method might be tweaked for better results.

I glued a piece of steel pin in this arm rather than a full magnet. All good on the dry fit but when I glued it in some of the pin stuck out. I tried a variety of solutions to cut the pin flush with the arm: using my file (too slow progress), my sprue snippers (PLEASE don’t try this, it did nothing useful AND damaged my snippers), and finally a big ol box cutter knife on the recommendation of a hardware store employee and still couldn’t cut the pin to size. So I turned to my greenstuff.

“If you can’t beat em, join em” became my motto and I built up greenstuff around the protruding pin while doing my best to blend it into the existing arm with my patience as a limiting factor. Priming and painting it will be the real test but I think I did ok.

#Hobbystreak day 35

This WIP is WhIPping along hahahahaha ok couldnt resist

Today was a lot of playing around with blending and shading on this octopus head plus some other odds and ends Like his shoe and staff and eyes.

A lot of today revolved in part around seeing what I could do to reset new changes. I had shaded the underside of the head but remembered that animals have lighter colored bellies than tops most of the time. So I blended some ice yellow and normal yellow into the underside of the head to imitate the belly of an octopus. And then lined the meeting of the head and the cloak with soft tone.

I tried putting some “purple tone” on since Vinny V said that purple can look good in yellow shadows. But I think I overdid it and now my octopus is looking kinda sickly. Soft tone wash is the answer to warm it up again? Idk.

I like how I got the look around the eye sockets with a payer of yellow over pure ice yellow. And a bit of off white under the eyes glazed with yellow.

I’m scared to try it on the head ridges because the sculpture detail there is kinda ambiguous which puts the onus on me to pretty it up.

Another thing I did yesterday was the black robe. Painted dark grey and then hit with targeted black wash to darken it down and alas I think I added too much so another highlight step with dark grey could be in order.

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Compare to just the base coat:

#hobbystreak I did this yesterday plus a bit more purple in part to hide where I got gold on the purple parts.

Using scale 75’s Dwarven Gold paint.

While some of the fine detail in the neckpiece and trim is hard to see atm I hope to bring it out with use of a flesh wash.

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