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Thanks Theo!! I'll have to grab some bottles of medium.

In regards to the Frog Night, I was especially happy with the fire in comparison to my earlier attempt with the fireball being cast by Damien Lockton painted a while ago (below for ease of reference)



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So up next is a beer bottle colored Giant Spider, we will call him Pabst

WIP 1: Painted Head with Aggaros Dune Contrast. The 2 plates closest to the head as well as the leg section closest to the body were painted with Darkoath Flesh Contrast. The tail end of the abdomen and the leg sections farthest from the body were painted Fyreslayer Flesh Contrast.



WIP 2: The mandibles were washed with Agrax Earthshade. The rest of the model was washed with Targor Rageshade.



Final: The model was drybrushed lightly with P3 Menoth White Highlight. Eyes were painted with Black Templar Contrast.

Love the spider. Proper creepy.

Thanks Cam! It's another color scheme that I really like and hope to repeat in the future.

Up next are some shambling mounds painted without contrast paints:

For the bodies I simply applied 3 coats of Biel-Tan Green Shade over the white undercoat followed by a coat of Nuln Oil. The mushrooms were then picked out in either P3 Moldy Ochre or Khador Red Highlight (which is actually orange). Some of the Moldy Ochre shrooms were then layered with Menoth White Highlight before a wash of Agrax Earthshade was applied to all of the shrooms. The plant spikes were washed in Agrax Earthshade and the leaves were glazed with Lamenters Yellow while the lilly pads were washed with Thraka Green. The teeth were picked out with Menoth White Highlight and the eyes with Khador Red Base.

Where are these models coming from by the way? 3d prints I take it?

Welcome llamahead. My friend has a 3d printer, though some are actually Reaper Bones figures and some others are Heroe Forge.

Your creatures look amazing, I especially like the big spider.

Water or airbrush medium seem to work just fine for me.

So two recommendations for Airbrush Medium...looks like I'll be making an amazon purchase! Thanks!

@Flapjack thanks and welcome to the blog!! The spider was a big hit for the party, so I am quite happy.

So tonight I painted up a trio of Viirets from the Tomb of Beasts 2 book from Kobald Press. I was wanting to add some jungle plant monsters that were remenisnce of the Piranha Plant monsters that inhabited the Pipes of Marion Brothers. I was stoked when I found rules for the Viiret in the Tomb of Beast 2 Book and even more stoked when my friend presented me with these 3 models.

I decided to go a bit different route for the inspiration behind the color scheme though!



Get the reference

Unfortunately I didn't take hardly any WIP photos, like I was planning on .

WIP: So I washed the model in Kroak Green Shade except for the head bumbs, thorns, lips, teeth and mouth. I then washed the lips in Targor Rageshade.



Final: I then painted the roof of the mouth with Contrast Flesh Tearers Red and the Tongue with Contrast Blood Angels Red. I then washed both areas with Carroburg Crimson Shade (probably should have washed the tongue in a brighter red shade though). The leaves were painted with Contrast Mantis Warriors Green for a brighter green hue. The stem was washed with Poxwalker Shade, giving it a slight blueish color. The head, stem and leaves were washed with Beil-Tan Green and the stem was given a further wash of Nuln Oil. The teeth, head bumps, and thorns were painted with Skeleton Horde Contrast. The leaves were dry brushed with P3 Necrotite Green. Then the entire model, except for the leaves and the inside of the mouth, was dry brushed with a 50/50 mix of Necrotite Green and Menoth White Base. The teeth, bumps and thorns were then washed in Agrax Earthshade. The Head bumps were lightly dry brushed with Menoth White Base.

Note: In person the greens are less vibrant and a fair bit more muted, but my phone keeps upping the blue/yellow color balance I guess. The top picture is closest to the true colors.

I need to get my printers working again, but that requires a computer strong enough to operate them.....sigh.

The plants look fantastic.

Good stuff WyFox. I get the reference.

"I've given you sun light!"

Brilliant execution and very cool minis.

Thanks guys and +1 nerd points for getting the reference to Little Shop of Horrors!

So up next are is Thorny Reboot Version 2.0: Pumpkin Puppies!

WIP 1: I painted the legs with Contrast Gor-Grunta Fur and applied a different contrast or shade to the bodies of each as a fun experiment allowing the paint to infringe a bit on the head. From Left to Right: Kroak Green Shade, Contrast Karandras Green, Contrast Ork Flesh, Contrast Mantis Warrior Green, and Biel-Tan Green Shade. I then applied a bit of Mantis Warrior Green to the head nearest the neck.



WIP 2: I applied contrast Bad Moon Yellow followed by a wash of Fuegan Orange Shade. The colors underneath still show giving the heads a sort of ripening look.



WIP 3: I applied Athonian Camoshade to the bodies



WIP 4: I dry brushed the entire models with P3 Menoth White Highlight



Final: I washed all but the head and the spines of the backs with Agrax Earthshade. I applied another wash of Fuegan Orange to the head (could have passed on this last head wash as it knocked down the yellow).

Again from From Left to Right the bodies were painted: Kroak Green Shade, Contrast Karandras Green, Contrast Ork Flesh, Contrast Mantis Warrior Green, and Biel-Tan Green Shade.

Which color scheme did you like the most?

Very interesting result WyFox.

I like all of them for different reasons, but the Biel-tan green stands out the winner to me. Have you tried Athonian Camo shade? I really like that as a color especially if you use a yellow drybrush (Hexos Palesun I think under it).

@ Gits. Thanks man!

@ Theo. Those are some nice looking models Theo! So your buildup you posted is for which part of the model? The wood, the honeycomb, or the stumps?

And I am a huge fan of Camoshade!

It makes a wonderful skin shade for goblins straight from the pot.





The wolfriders' and jester's flesh were painted with straight camoshade.

I also used it as a shade over Skeleton Horde for the bug's flesh

Fantastic work. And yes the shades are truly amazing. But you have to be careful ànd you have been. Those bugs look truly brilliant.

Those bugs are great.

The camoshade parts were the bases, the grass.

Thanks Cam and Theo!

@Theo, I really liked your tree stumps, what was the workup?

As for myself, I have just a small update, a super simple paint job for some Vampiric Mists:

The body and head/Face was washed with Nuln Oil. Then Carroburg Crimson Shade was washed over the face and mouth. The tongue was painted in P3 Murderous Magenta and the tongue and mouth was then washed with Carroburg Crimson Shade. The teeth were picked out with P3 Menoth White Highlight. The Body was then given two more consecutive washes with Nuln Oil.



Got a new picture booth and for some reason, the light kept giving the model a pinkish color. There is no pink on the body.

Those vampiric mists are decidedly creepy. Apart from the fact they have mouths they could almost (almost) pass as intellect devourers.

The tree stumps were a couple years back. I think the centers were Zandri Dust, the outside might be mournfang brown, The camoshade wash in some spots, agrax in others, then drybrushed both with zandri dust. That's to the best of my recollection.

Very good WyFox. You are just cranking things out like there's no tomorrow.

@Archer, thanks for stopping by! Oh, I should so have given the models that template! It would have really thrown the players for a loop. Instead of sucking your blood they use their tongues to enter your brain through your ears!

Thank for sharing Theo!! I'll look at trying something like that out with my P3 paints when I eventually make some treants!

Thanks Gits! It help not having a life or a family lol. I'm basically the male version of a crazy cat lady...a crazy model man!






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So played around with the light booth and added one of my old lamps for additional light head on to try and get a better picture of the mists. Also played a bit with the phot0 editor on my phone to tone down the red to get closer to the true colors of the models.



I forgot to say that I hit up the eyes with white and then P3 Khador Red Base.








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And a glimpse of what I am working on now!

This is the Swamp Dragon and my first attempt at Slap Chop.

WIP 1: Black Primer and then tried using a Bone Primer Spray Can to create a bit of a Zenithal Pattern (a first). I didn't want a lot of black showing as in some of the videos I watched, it really muted the Slap Chop. However, I got a bit too Zealous.



WIP 2: Next dry brushed P3 Sickly Skin (a new find at Noble Knight Games in Madison - also a first time visiting the store) heavily over the model before applying a much lighter dry brush of Morrow White.



WIP 3: Applied splotches of Contrast Space Wolves Grey on the skin around the limbs and chest.



WIP 4: Applied Contrast Gryph-Charger Grey to the flesh and the wing's bone ridges, Contrast Aggaros Dunes to the rock, Contrast Gutrippa Flesh to the Underbelly and the fins, Contrast Skeletal Horde to the Horns, Talons, and Teeth, and 2 coats of Contrast Darkoath Flesh to the wing and ear membranes.







At this point, the Slap Chop method is complete and you can call it a day. But I am going to add washes and additional dry brushes and see if I like it better.

Dragon is cool. Are all these models for use now or a “just in case” sort of scenario for your games?

@ Archer. Thanks! So for each region, I create my own random encounter chart with 25 encounters. They won't get to all of them, but I want them in the wings so to speak just in case. Once I create the random encounter chart, I then either have the models 3D printed or purchase models online or in store to fill out the encounter chart. My friend with the 3d printer is in the campaign, so there are some creatures that rely on deception that I therefore have to order online (like the Oblex I sidelined them with). Right now they are in a dark swamp land that is heavily corrupted by demonic and necrotic energy so the models I am painting are for this region. This Dragon is really just a guest appearance to give them some feel for the corrupted region and advance one of the characters stories rather than as a combat encounter.

The next region will be in a dessert wasteland. So pretty soon I will be ordering the models and start painting those. The Dragon is just about the last model for the Swamps!

That’s a cool idea for a campaign. I run a campaign via discord with players all over Australia (most are gaming friends that have moved to other places). Makes for an interesting take on things as with discord it is very easy to run seperate encounters when the party splits up……very entertaining when a player meets an untimely demise but no one else knows that they didn’t make it…

@Archer, definitely a powerful tool in Discord. Harder to do that at a table, though sometimes, I might have some players go upstairs so as to separate them and create some mystique.

Well tonight I finished the Dragon .

WIP 5: On to the Washes!! The skin, belly, and fins were washed with Athonian Camoshade. The wing flesh and ear fins were washed with Targor Rageshade. The horns, teeth, and talons and the stone were washed with Agrax Earthshade.



WIP 6: Then I washed the skin with Nuln Oil. Again, could certainly stop here and be happy.



Final: But I like dry brushes! The horns, talons, and teeth were lightly drybrushed with P3 Menoth White Base and then Menoth White Highlight. The belly and fins were dry brushed with Vallejo Dead Flesh and then Menoth White Highlight. The wing flesh and ear fins were dry brushed with Vallejo Khaki. The rock dry brushed with P3 Hammerfall Khaki and then Sickly Skin.





Overall, I do like the the bit of Zenithal that is still seen on the skin and wings. But applying the washes and dry brushes knocked down any slap chop effects on the belly and fins. So a fun experiment.

That's a wonderful looking dragon, and it's shocking how good it looked just from slap chop. I'm gonna have to try this technique out, eh (I know, I know, late comer).

Love the dragon. Intreged by the slap chop business. Interesting. Certainly you have done a brilliant job on the dragon.

Thanks Cam and Gwyn! I really like how the Dragon turned out and can't wait to see the look on the table when it plops down next to them!






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So up next is my character in Pathfinder's Curse of the Crimson Throne, Toady the Friendly Merc. He started out at level 8, so I was able to generate a a fun little background about this hireling who bounces from organization to organization in quite the unconventional manner. See Toady is highly intellectually impaired Int 8 and Wisdom 6 and has no will of his own, instead being perfectly happy, even joyful to follow the orders unflinching of whoever is commanding...whether friend or foe! Never the less, the character is very skilled in the three falchions strapped to his back (mithril, cold iron, and adamantine) and has terrifying strength, that in battle, those foes that face him either perish in a gory display due to his inability to hold back (always power attack all the time) or flee in horror (intimidate build). Unfortunately for his companions, whatever the troop, they always perished only to have Toady surrounded by enemies and forced to surrender when someone with some courage manages to simply...just...ask. His capabilities, lack of understanding (The Seal Breakers convinced him that he was simply putting people to sleep as the Necromancer would later "wake" them up and not to worry about the screams as its natural for people to try to resist going to bed), and his childlike faith in and desire to please the people around him always leads his captors to adopt him into their organization. Thus he has bounced from the Little Sparrows, The Nightsoil Maruaders, The Magnima City Watch, The Gallowed, The Merchants Guild of Magnima, The Dusters, The Order of the Nail, the Seal Breakers, the Sable Company, and now the party. I really think I have created the first ever True Neutral Character lol.

Because his armor is a patchwork of pieces from his various uniforms cobbled together into a suit of functioning full-plate, I used a variety of P3 metal paints on his armor and swords: Blighted Gold, Brass Balls, Quick Silver, Pig Iron, and Boiler Black as well as a shoulder pad painted in Contrast Black Templar (for the Hell Knights). I then used shades in different combinations to further differentiate the pieces as well as add age and depth: Nuln Oil, Agrax Earthshade, and Seraphim Sepia. Quick Silver was used to add scratches and scuffing to the armor and swords. Then Blood for the Blood God Technical Paint was flicked on to add the usual gore that covers him.










Awe...look at that happy smile as he sneaks through the cemetery humming real loudly to "hide" the sound of his own clunky footsteps!




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Oh, and I actually painted Toady during the campaign session today

You know you're painting faster than I can read... Nice work. Dragon turned out great!