søndag 19. august 2012

Started River Trolls

Ok! I admit, I am weak...
I should have finished the Imperial Guard and Space Marines filling up my boxes, but I needed a boost to get the painting going again, and the River Trolls gave me just such a boost.
I painted for a few hours yesterday, and have gotten in a few hours today as well.
The result is looking promising, I must say. I am a long way from done, but the paint scheme is starting to show its effect.
I deviated quite a lot from my original thoughts on this project, but I really think that what I've done is for the better.
I figure rivers where Trolls can hide is pretty big, murky, and dark, so I went with that. I combined it with thoughts of the biggest fresh water predator I know about here in Norway, the Pike, and ended up with what I am painting now.
The Troll body is Castellan Green. This gives a sort of grimy and slimy body look. The effect was a little better than I dared to hope so I used that for the entire body.
Then the "hard" scales are done in a darker green, Caliban Green, as far as I know this is the new version of the Dark Angels Green that was my first choice for these parts of the Troll. But thinking I want to make more in the future, I decided to use as much paint from the new paint range that I could, so Caliban Green it was.
The fur and fins are painted with Vomit Brown. I had planned to use this a lot more, as it was first choise for the soft parts (if any part of a Troll really can be called soft), but seeing how the Castellan Green looked I toned the vomit Brown down a bit.
The teeth of the Troll is painted in Bleahed Bone. This was chosen because I use that color for bones on other armies, and I wanted to make the teeth stand out from the other sharp body parts like the nails/claws and the sharp part of the fins. These parts will be painted Adeptus Battle Gray if nothing else comes up shortly.
One of the Trolls in this group is vomiting, and the vomit is painted terracotta, and ths will also be the color of the fins on the fish that another troll holds in its hands. The bony bits of the vomit is painted Ceramite white to stand out.

lørdag 4. august 2012

Time to start painting again

The kitchen is almost complete now, and at least it is ready for use.
Me and the wife just need to add the opening mechanisms on the cabinet doors and the drawers, and then we can start to use it. We still miss some small details, but that will be solved next week when my handy father-in-law will come to visit.
This means I have some time to paint again, and the plan is first of all to finish the Imperial Guard models I have been working on for so long, in order to make room for the River Trolls that awaits in the cupboard.