Jabberwocky's WIP

[jabberwocky]

Here is the start of a pair of burna boyz. Added some greenstuff flames and (hopefully) what will come out looking like badly burned skin on the ork.

[racssirt]

Looking good Jabber! Keep going!

[Tim C]

Cool mate I like the conversions, I am going to have to make a start on my Kommandos as you are all showing me up to be a slacker lol.

[mutantpotato]

Wow Jabber, the idea of burning skin is reall cool. Can't wait to see how the burned skin will look painted.

[jabberwocky]

I'll post the skin step-by-step here--once it is completed, I'll put together a formal tutorial here on the forums. This will hopefully be just a bit different shade then Tim's orcs. I am going to be using (mostly) VMC and a bit of RMS for these boyz.

First step: Black undercoat. Yes, I know I could have just primered in black, but that would be much too simple and logical! ;D


Next I "basecoat" with VMC Flat Green. With the black undercoat, this gives a very dark green. You can see a hint of the burned flesh in the second pic. Poor orksy...he burned his ear off! Gotta be careful around flammable objects...



Ok, that was the easy part. Next comes progressive highlighting, which I am sooooo slow on. Typically, I will go ahead and basecoat the entire mini first. I just like seeing all the colors in place (not to mention I hate highlighting). For this tutorial I am going to try and just do the skin so I can get out the tutorial in a timely fashion; however, this is why Tim will finish all 5 of his Kommandos before I finish this one mini...I am terribly slow at highlighting.

[racssirt]

Very very nice Jabber!

What more can I say?

[Tim C]

Yup nice start mate, thanks for taking the time to do this.

[jabberwocky]

Here is a bit more work done--I have added some VMC SS Camo Bright Green and mostly just basecoating on some metallic bits. The mouth is pretty much done on the first orc and I have done some shading on the pants of the second. The camera has managed to point out a mold line I missed and a few spots where the paint chipped--gotta love VMC.

[razhburz]

Great! The mouth looks brill!

Cheers,

Razh

[hinton]

Those are looking outstanding.

[Tim C]

Can't find any faults here, great work mate.

[jabberwocky]

Got a bit more done tonight. Quick question to everyone--should it leave the bolts "as is" or make them the standard metallic with black ring for depth? The rust on the helm and boots is coming along nicely, but I think I need to darken the crack further yet.

[razhburz]

Great job on the mask and rust, mate! Very nice idea withe the flames on the mask.
how do you get the rusty effect?


Cheers,

Razh

[Tim C]

Very nice work mate the mask looks great, if it were me I would make the bolts stand out a bit, I think that if you did that it would make it pop all the more.

[jabberwocky]

Got a bit more done. The facemask is pretty much done, although I plan to deepen the shading on the rusted part of the helmet. The shirt and flamethrower are really just basecoated at this point. As usual, I decided to change something midstream on a project. I ran out of "gunk" and decided to do something quite a bit different with the new gunk. I went with 50% water, ~40% VMC matte medium, and ~10% RMS flow improver. Mixing it up, I have a white cloudy material. It doesn't seem to alter the color of the paints, but I definitely think it has dulled the metallics I am using. I have yet to decide whether this is a good thing or not. I think it will be--one of the key ingredients I think with working with metallics that I have observed with those really good with them is that they tend to do a lot of washes to dull the reflection of the flakes.

Lots of weathering yet to go--I'll be rusting up the steel and laying down some smoke over the brass bit as well as darkening the end of the FT. I'll be attempting some subtle OSL on the FT as well, so hopefully that neon green won't look so out of place. The shirt is RMS stone gray. Comments?

[razhburz]

I like it, a lot! great work so far. the metals look great.

How did you get that rusty colour on his helmet? did you use washes?


keep it up



Razh

[jabberwocky]

Ahh, sorry you had to ask that again, Rahz! The rust technique was borrowed *read stolen* from the website Dr. E had recommended in his WIP. I modified it to the colors I had on hand. The mask was first based in VMC black, then covered with RMS (Reaper Master Series) polished silver (GW mithril silver). I then took VMC smoke and liberally washed the silver, letting it pool in the cracks and crevices. Next, I went over it with controlled washes of RMS Rust Brown, a rather orangey brown--GW vermin brown is the closest...finished up with RMS clear orange, which is equal to GW Fiery Orange. I then went back over the very highest areas with RMS polished silver on the bolt edges and other sharp lines. As I said, I think I need to go back and darken the shadows a bit more with a thin dark brown/black in the deep areas.

[Tim C]

Looking really cool mate, the burna is looking excellent.

[menace]

I'm feeling like a bit of a slacker, but i've got my GG entries to work on, all here is promising JW but i feel there is an overall flatness to the work so far...the flesh only seems to come to a midtone, maybe add some bleached bone to your mix for some highlights

The rust effect works really well, just the pants, yet again, loose that final highlight

Love the burnt skin idea! look forward to see it painted up

[jabberwocky]

menace said:

I'm feeling like a bit of a slacker, but i've got my GG entries to work on, all here is promising JW but i feel there is an overall flatness to the work so far...the flesh only seems to come to a midtone, maybe add some bleached bone to your mix for some highlights

The rust effect works really well, just the pants, yet again, loose that final highlight

By all means, keep working on your GG entries! These aren't due for months! You are quite right, Menace. The mini is quite flat in most places at this point, and I have only gone to the midtone on the flesh and pants. Highlighting is the bane of my existance. I do not enjoy it--mostly because I am not yet comfortable with it. The transitions are always very rough initially (or even in the end, hehe). My recent vale archer elves have been my most successful foray into fairly strong highlights with relatively smooth transitions. I will definitely be going back over both minis to bring up the highlights two or three times more than in their current state.

[menace]

There's no need to be afraid of highlighting when you can cheat!! A friend of mine had the same fear and i recommended to him to try a glaze medium (in his case 'Golden Acrylic Glazing liquid-Satin). After you have done the highlighting you go over the whole area with a glaze coat using the midtone colour, the glaze coat should be about 20:1 glaze to paint and then thinned slightly with water. This will even out any rough transitions, and of course you can do as many coats as you need, just ensure they are totaly dry between each coat. If the highlight is faded too much just rehighlight and repeat!

Another good tip is Testors Dullcote. For some transitions the particulates that create the matting effect in dullcote also help smooth out transitions!! You may need to retouch the hotspots with this stuff. I don't recommend Dullcote on metallics though, it decimates the lustre.

[jabberwocky]

Got a bit of work done on this Burna Boy. The weathering on the backpack didn't photograph too well. I still have quite a bit of highlighting yet to do, but he is coming along nicely. I'm not sure what that thing is on his left hip--actually that is not as important as what color to paint it; suggestions?

[Tim C]

Very nice mate he is looking great. I have no clue as to what that thing is but how about black or very dark grey.

[racssirt]

Very very nice mate!

[razhburz]

you know what? I thhink this look awesome! Wonderful job so far