Greebo's Reaper WIP

Greebo makes a pretty sweet reaper.

Naturally I bought two of them. One for me and one for my favorite painter, my brother. This one will be his, if he wants it.

I've gone for an animated vibe, so bright colors on the dice.

Red and orange and blue, with subtle blends of fluorescen for kick.

The dice are actually tan, buff, whatever, off white, but this shite camera can't pick it up under the spotlight. 

The little dude is going to be bone, (right now he's wearing a bit of speed paint to help me see where he's headed), leaning to cold tones in the shadows, and his cloak is TBD, but I'm thinking to blue-black. 

Happy Friday,

HMP

Contrast Paint Rocks

I didn't intend to crank out 3 figures as fast as possible, it just kind of happened. How? It's really a combination of complementary techniques.

Start with a zenithal over gray, a simple palette (3 colors plus white), and selective use of contrast paint, that's it. The end result is super fast painting. Beside the face/head and body, all the annoying bits and bobs got a single pass of Contrast/SpeedPaint. 

This saves a huge amount of time and frees it up for the face and body. Sure I banged in a bunch of edge highlights and tried to pull off a NMM, but the time cost was free. 

In the above we're nearly complete, and it was super relaxing. Had I not tried a different fur scheme on one of them, I would have batch painted them in under 3 hours.

Keep your brushes clean,

HMP

On The Bench

Here's what's up. 

The Snotlings pump wagons got some love. 

The beastmen got some "generic" basing. 

And the dice reapers got some rattle can love. 

More to come.

HMP

Blood Bowl Chaos Team

Well, we added some gore, slapped on some numbers, and hired a Troll from Papa Nurgle. Introducing The Warp Warriors.

The numbers are a bit sketchy, but the first guy painting them on got eaten, so the guy that finished them up was in a bit of a rush. 

The gore is subtle, one can always add more.

Another close-up.

That's a wrap. With the exception of some touchups and matte varnish, (some day), I think this is done. I did all the numbers with oils, for easy fixing, so these need somewhere to rest and dry. Off to the cupboard of aging!

Cheers,

HMP