The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Now with more rock!

It's been a mighty busy day.

I started myself off this morning by washing the shield drone down to a decent, dingy greyish color that I felt much more comfortable with.

I then began to paint the fanatics. While I think they look pretty good, they are such a giant pain in the ass to paint. Their details are modelled terribly - there are no gaps, for example, between the arms and the body, just big hunks of shaped plastic that I assume one is supposed to paint black, and the chains are one-piece molded rubbish in some places. I was fortunate in picking a dark color for their robes, because anything other than black or dark grey would look terrible with how these models are made. Really poor quality on GW's part, but they fit the model well enough, so I guess it evens out.

The base was proving problematic around the middle of the day, though. I thought I could just use the new washes over a khaki color to achieve a nice little desert effect on it, but they've proven a bit unreliable as far as that goes. I think part of it is that there's very little surface detail on the rocks for the washes to grab onto, and partly because they're positioned at angles, so the wash pools in an unusual manner in unusual places.

 

To fix this, I grabbed my drybrush and a khaki color and started generously drybrushing it over the entire thing. Then, I grabbed some bleached bone and drybrushed around the edges and any details like cracks or the likes. Finally, I thinned out the Citadel Devlan Mud Wash even more to something like 3:1 wash to water and started very carefully reapplying it over the base. The results of this second try are a lot more pleasing, and I was happy with it, so I went ahead and blacked out the 'rim' of the base after it had dried.

 

Also, I took this one photo for giggles, but I have to post it because I love how it came out. I basically dimmed all of the lights around where I was shooting, and set the camera for something absurd like a 30 second exposure, and walked away. The shot that came out was actually truer colors than most of my others, which shocked the hell out of me. Not to mention it looked awesome cause the eyes glowed hard in the dark.

Untouched, aside from scaling and watermarking. I may start taking pictures in a slightly dimmer light.

All that aside, though, there's only a couple things needing to be done. There's a few details on the grots (like knives sheathed in little spots around their belts) that need to be picked out in a different color, and I wouldn't mind putting some checkered lines across their robes...

... Not to mention the OSL which I was considering. The whole 'green glow from the cracks' thing. I'm at the point now where I am afraid of doing that because I've both never done it before and I really don't want to screw the model up any! I may work up the nerve for it later - right now, I'm painting the old base I made for this model up in the hopes that I can use it as a test piece and try to figure out how it should all work. We'll see, though...