Blood Gruel the Flatulent Seeks an Army

[DavidWC09]

I have four of these, so this one was the first test. On the next one, I'll practice blood effects. With this one, I learned about painting long, large expanses of bundled muscles and achieving a paler skin tone, though it's not as pale as I'd wanted. I fiddled a lot with glazes and washes and am getting a better feel for them.

When I took these pics, the second of two varnish coats was drying. I brushed on a satin varnish and followed it with a gloss for a tougher shell for withstanding gameplay. Next, I'll brush on a matte and see how it looks before deciding to dullcote.

[The Paint Monkey]

I really like it. I think it's a great colour and the shading is top notch. Superb work, mate.

[Morden]

Amazing work and progress on your lovely oggies david and Thanks for posting in my orks thread to.

[DavidWC09]

Done and ready for battle.

You'll notice I removed the ToP from the thread title. I decided to sell these to finance my Vampire Counts addiction. I'm still planning on piledriving through these models and will keep posting updates, though. As for ToP, though, I'll have to bow out. Of course, if they don't sell--and there aren't many watchers on the auctions--then I might just reenter the competition.

[Lil Tweaker]

For a tester model, that's great. I like the pic with the unpainted bard, it has a nice 'Beauty and the Beast' look.
I don't know if I'm bummed or excited that you're bowing out of ogres to do VC. So long as I get to look at pretty pix, I'm happy.
-J

[Pickle]

Looking good there, sad your gonna sell them, give them to me instead

[forumjayz]

yeah it's a shame your aren't going to keep these models they look awesome and the new one look really nice too. Keep up the good work david


Cheers Jayz

[DavidWC09]

"Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!"

I have a lot of questions about Marge, here. First off, whoever sculpted this model had two things on his hands: too much time and too much green stuff.

First, I love the model. I think she'll make a great Butcher for the army, and the model has piles of character. Those piles, though, present a peculiar problem.

First, let's look at the front and start with her staff. I'll play this feature as a bangstick, an army list item producing magical missiles. She's suspended two mushrooms and a unicorn's horn from it. At the Bangstick's top sits some sort of crystal. In the GW universe, it'd be warprstone, so I'll paint it a glowing green. Over Marge's left hand dangle a few random tokens.

Second, look at her. The only expanses of flesh are her breasts, the left of which has a partially exposed nipple, most of her arms, some of her sagging gut, and most of her legs.

Reining in her behemoth bust is a halter top, knotted together just above the bone that she uses as a navel ring. Large Marge has heaped a magnificent muff about her shoulders, doubtless the pelt of some unfortunate creatures chopped into stew by that massive cleaver in her right hand.

And don't overlook the top-knot or the pincer-like rhinox tusks spreading over her like an evil halo. Or the different sort of armors that she's gathered: scale mail, chain mail, a touch of ring mail.

And mind you, we haven't even addressed what Large Marge has piled on her back. She must have an extra special Bag of Holding.

Inventory:

1. Barrell with a frog sitting on it
2. Six pouches
3. Water horn (canteen)
4. A skull
5. A meat hook on her left hip
6. Bones that she's inserted through the skin of her arms

So here are the questions. Just how in The Great Maw's name am I supposed to paint all these different objects so that they don't:

a. wash out against each other
b. contrast with each other without producing an "Oh my god! It's a rainbow!" outbursts.
c. not drive me insane
d. observe the basics of cool and warm colors
e. observe the basics of complementaries
f. not drive me insane

You, the astute reader, by now will have detected a certain frustration on my part. I'm going to keep working at her, but it is daunting.

My main question now is looking at her most prominent visual features and decide how to color them. That means the skin, the staff, the boa, the horns, the armor, and her cleaver. On the back the barrell joins the list of prominent features.

All the other finished models in this thread were eBayed to a guy in Greece. Right now, I plan on keeping Large Marge, unless I really dislike the paint job.

Anyhow, here it is. Thanks for reading my rambling.

[Pickle]

Haha, nice description...
And its looking good, but finish it!

[Dwayne]

Terriffic work, really love the skin tones on Marge great work.

-Dwayne