Something for the weekend?

https://www.justgiving.com/Peter-Bell-paintathon

I was hoping to cary on with Chuckles this weekend, but there was a 12 hr paintathon happening in GW exeter so I decided to weigh in and give my time to help out a worthy cause and blast through some of the blood letters for my Khorne deamon army.  The evening started at 1800 and finished at 0600 the following day....

 Start about 1810 hrs, 30 blood letters with three banners, champions and musicians... assembled and undercoated black...

by 1854 hrs the base layer was down...

by 1944 hrs the first and second Highlight was done...

By 2211 they had bee washed with green, Hair dryer, and dry brushed.

 by 0106 we had eaten, the bases were done with a base of flesh tone and the swords had been done with three colours, black green and white...

Bases dry brushed  and black edges done by ????

Bone details started, this is where I started to flag... so I decided to free hand one of the banners.... (photo to follow).  It was around now that a group of drunken idiots walked past the store and one of them shouted at us "Why? Why are you doing this its three in the morning, why are you here?" as one fifteen blokes shouted "For Charity!" and two minutes later we had about £15 extra in the pot and four sincere apologies :)

Oh and the hair dryer died around now, it has served me well  :/

With a banner done and some of the bone details done (only on a  few lucky chaps) we called it a night and went home with upwards of £1000 raised for ELF https://www.justgiving.com/exeterlf.

Since I didn't have time to set up a just giving page, if you fancy giving to a worthy cause, follow the link for my friend that was also attending the event and be generous ;)

https://www.justgiving.com/Peter-Bell-paintathon

Thanks.

So here is a breakdown of what I've done so far...

 So, after a undercoat of Halfords Grey primer I played down a base layer of VMC Cork brown as the base layer for the wings, After this I made a mix of 50/50 VMA red and yellow to make a vibrant orange (the pictures don't show just how orange this was, it's more orange than yellow).










The orange was done leaving about 20% of the flesh showing (the symbols in the wings will be painted later).

Next was a neat red, VMA again this time within the orange limits.

 Next was VMA Hull red, a very dark red black colour, just around the wing veins.

 Finally VMA Black along the veins, low pressure on the AB and small amounts of black, avoiding overspray onto the previous layers.... and thats it, job done.... for now, time to slip on some rubber...... :/

So this is something new for me, some mates of mine, Pete and Dee, went over the the Netherlands recently for a painting class with Pepper Sevadra, and came back with new (for me at least) knowledge.

To protect the work done so far a layer of Liquid mask is 'painted' over the areas you want to protect.  I did this a section at a time as I did not want the masking fluid to go onto the veins of the wings, a quick blast with a hair dryer speeds this process along.

 After consultation with Pete, he recommended doing a few layers of the mask to make it easier to remove later....  I did two layers on each section, I'll find out later if that is enough...

 Wings covered, time to leave them to dry....

 Onto the body of the beast. I did an off the cuff  mix of these to get a dark red base layer with a  hint of green to cool the shadows down and create some "visual interest".










Base layers down, as well as a few high lights using the same VMA red that was used on the wings.












I saw a technique on You Tube by SchnauzerFaceMinis where he used pastels to do colour variation and shadows on a large model, this vid ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjkO44H-AU&spfreload=10 ) is what I'm talking about.  So I figure, lets give it a go, whats the worse that can happen right?....... Sorry to the lads in the store if this goes pair shaped!





HULK SMASH!!!! the powder was a scraping of the dark green and purple mixed with a little dark brown, it was pushed into the shadow area with an old dry brush and then dusted off with a tank brush, leaving the powder in the deepest parts.









Once dusted, the who model was given a coat of matte varnish to seal the powers down.

Not a bad effect.......... I think......


Watch this space.....

Here I go again ...

Here I go again...

So this is actually going to be helping out the lads in the local GW store, and its a chance for me to paint a model that I was not intending to buy.

 The model was returned to the store after a can of spray did something to the centre belly plate on the model, for reasons unknown either the spray semi melted the details or the plastic was not cast properly, whatever it was the store replaced the entire model for the customer and now they have a blood thirster to paint that they were not intending scheduled to... So thats where I come in.

The beastie arrived assembled, under coated, sprayed with the GW red base coat and washed to hell with null oil... not where I would have started, so he's (or she's) now grey.

I was joking with the lads in the store that I might paint it like the hulk with green skin and purple armour, but one of them look rather nervous about that.  since it's going to be a store piece I'll try to be as tame as I can with the colour scheme.  Also, I'm going to ignore any mould lines or big gaps that I would normally remove or fill in, this is after all going to end up in a store with grubby little fingers all over it, so yeah, not going to get too fussy about the build quality.

From this pic he looks so happy, so I'm going to call him 'Chuckles'.