The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

The finer details

I probably should have put these colors on sooner.

I started picking out some details here and there - I figure before I go any farther with the ground work, I need to get the colors on some of these details so that they'll get all dirtied up. I do realize that stuff like the sandbags and barrel are clean right now, but they'll be drybrushed with scorched brown and then progressively brighter dirt colors to fit in better, I hope.

I'm really not that good at painting by hand, it seems. Those tiles in the corner have been giving me hell - I wanted to get them up to a marbly white, but every successive brighter coat I applied got chalkier and chalkier until it just looked awful. It's stuck somewhere around a messy Khaki right now. I'm hoping it will look better once I start drybrushing dirt back onto them, because they're just a mess right now.

 

I probably should have chosen a different color for the barrel - I wanted it to be leaking some sort of green slime, but the barrel ended up a brighter green than I was hoping for. I think I'm going to try going over it again with something a shade or so darker to try and tone it down a bit.

I actually think the sandbags don't look awful, as the overspray from when I was airbrushing them lends a bit to a spilled-sand appearance surrounding them. They need a bit of toning, though - I tried washing them with a brown ink, but it just pools in weird ways on the tops and doesn't look good, so I don't know what to do with them.

I coated the grot in a medium green tone - I'm going to highlight him and then hopefully drybrush him (or maybe lightly airbrush him) back into the ground with scorched brown. I also gave the girders and the lascannon a bit of a go with some dark gunmetal colors from vallejo, though I'm not fond of their metals - I actually drybrushed a brighter chainmail onto the lascannon a bit, but it doesn't look.. right, you know what I mean?

Basically, I'm hoping that once I start drybrushing my darker browns and brightening up some of the dirt patches this will all look a bit better, as right now I'm not very happy with it. The tiles need a lot of love still.