Painting big cats

Finished the first model for my Underworlds team, once again my efforts in photography let down the effort put into painting it! But I really enjoyed the scale, detail and challenge of a new model and not following the scheme used by GW.

Fitting in the painting where I can

Another over due update on my enduring endeavour to paint all of Descent 2nd edition! This time we have  the an undead theme!

First up are the Dispossessed, which in the art are super cool as they look like human heads, but the scale on the models puts the heads more like giant or ogre skulls, which in some ways makes more sense.

I started off with very different base colours and explored the hues and tomes as I went, took a while but really pleased with the contrast achieved.

Next, Dezra the Vile, going to be my Necromancer in my next campaign. The details on part of this model were really bad, so I struggled with parts. Enjoyed the OSL on this one.

The skin took quite a bit of experimentation, I sometimes forget that you have to view colours in relation to each other so you just have to have faith when you start painting and adjust as you go.

Finally the Reanimate model I will be using instead of a card board counter. I chose a Reaper bones miniature as I didn't want to use one of the Reanimate models in the game already as it might get confusing, and I wanted it to look more like a fallen hero. 

I used the same colours as on my Lord Hawthorn model so that it fits in with the hues on most of the heroes. Really enjoyed the rust effect as it gives great contrast to the turquoise/blue.

Painting in the gaps

As with every return to work life printing has had to fit in between the other less fun activities but there has been progress, as evidenced below:

Finished off the marrow priests and really liked how they turned out

I am becoming quite quick at painting purple cloth thanks to the Terrinoth 

 code of good and evil costume colours!

Tried out another OSL off the crystal on the chest but didn't really show up how I intended, still all good practice

These Shambling Colossuses were a serious road block on my painting table, I think wood is  really contender for my painting nemesis.

Eventually got over the hump and churned them out pretty quickly over half term

Enjoyed the use of contrast to make them pop a bit and a rare OSL omission on these guys, I just wanted them off the list.