Kuffy's WIP Thread

[King Ulrik Flamebeard]

I have seen this used to good effect, and thus I have stolen it. =P This is somewhere that you'll get chance to see all my stages as I paint whatever I paint over the next XXXXX weeks/months/years. I have a large backlog of mini's as many of you might remember, and thus I am working through them - without trying to buy too many (failing at this). I will not, however list them here, but rather show you what I have (minus new stuff)











I have added more stuff since then, but it's not too much. Anyway, this is my work pile I'm working through. I aim to improve my abilities and to cut back on the number of unpainted minis I possess. So, as I get through them, any work in progress shots will be in this thread with a nice separate thread for the final and finished product at the end.

Watch me as I work!

KU

[King Ulrik Flamebeard]

OK, the first WIP entry is my current miniature of the Games Workshop Wraith for Vampire Counts. I had this because years ago I aspired to start a Vampire Counts army, never got much further than buying some stuff. Anyway;

Wanting to do something a little different and expand my abilities, I have decided for this mini I will do directional lighting. Basically everything is lit from a specific angle (here from behind), but with this I wanted to go one step further. You may not know but the 'evil' moon in Fantasy is green, so I decided I am going to try and highlight using green to give the 'spooky' look. In addition to this I will be attempting to do a nice set of orange glowy eyes on the wraith and some rust on his scythe. Two more things I've never done.

Picture one:



This is a mock up of his base. Wanting him to be a little bit more suiting, a graveyard seemed appropriate, thus a bit of rummaging and I came up with some zombie arms and some gravestones. Hacking two up I wanted a broken down look and above is the end product.

Picture two:



The wraith thus far. You'll notice the general lack of highlights on much of him, this is because only his skull is done. The difference is very hard to see =( but about half way over the top his skull gets more highlights, due to the idea of the front not getting any light to it and I'm trying to keep it dark. Otherwise, I have just shaded the staff and the blade on the weapon.

Not much to him so far, but soon!!

KU

[yourtimehascome]

Dear All Concerned,

Now although I have sen those pictures of your box sets before, I would just like to say, damn!

I wish I had that many box sets lying around! Now, as you said, their is lack of highlighting, but do not worry, looks great so far, at least better than mine (not saying much).

Well, i look forward to seeing more done!

-ythc

[theyak]

Drools at archaeon on foot model.. I want one so bad...

[Jaffar_Hasad]

Wow. Just from a second look I see you have 36ish boxes and sprues plus bits to work with. Can't wait to see everything and hope to take from (steal) your methods of painting.

And +Points for using green, my favorite color

[King Ulrik Flamebeard]

Originally Posted by theyak

Drools at archaeon on foot model.. I want one so bad...

hehe, I have two. =P


yourtimehascome - Well, the highlighting isn't started just yet as such. So this I'm not worried about.

Jaffar_Hasad - I have more stuff on the way and have brought more since this picture. =D Thanks.

KU

[theyak]

you wouldn't be interested in trading or selling your extra ground pounder badass man with a bag of chips, would you?

[King Ulrik Flamebeard]

Well, I have progresses.. um.. very little. There is a reason for this, well one besides not getting out of bed until half twelve, and I had problems with the skull and blade.

I decided to give the skull a wash to darken the front a little, then using a lighter colour I washed the bone in this to try and tie the large difference together. What happened was odd. The highlighted section (rear facing) went really, really white and chalky. Then I wash it again, the same. So after various attempts I went back and redid the front of the skull - this was because a shading wash made it look really dark brown and well... "not very good" to paraphrase. Looks OK now, but you can see a clear split in the 'halves' which I'm not fully happy on, but we'll see.

Then the blade. I washed it with various layers of scorched brown and Tamiya Clear Orange to represent 'wear, tear, and ageing'. This was OK, but hard to see due to the basecoat being so dark (note, rusting etc seems to work best over a clean layer; chainmail or mithril silver perhaps). Then I got onto the blood. This was the problem. The first adding (Tamiya Clear Red) made it look like I had just painted a blocked strip across the blade. But on the reverse it came out OK. So, back to washing to try and do something with the 'block'. Failed, so I drybrushed mithril silver and started with the 'weathering' again. Hence why the two sides don't look exact. The blood worked out OK, but I need to practice using it.

The staff however went OK. Using VMC Burnt Umber and Flat Earth I got a nice dark looking staff.

So, either with a few problems I don't think it's terrible; though the pictures don't show everything up all that well. Next stage: grey highlights on the front, then to start the green on the rear before trying my hands at glowing eyes.

All comments welcome.

KU

[King Ulrik Flamebeard]

Incidentally I used this site here on Tuesday and for £30 I got all this:





And two cans of Testors Dull Cote as well. It came this morning. Now that is quick! This place has so much modelling stuff, for bases etc it cannot be passed up on!

KU

[minus_t]

Get on with the painting damnit >_<

*pokes at Kuffeh's weak, weak eyes*

-t.