Sunday, January 20, 2013

Black Pyramid Grey

Well, thanks to some botched dentistry I've been flat on my back having had two procedures in one day culminating in a tooth removal. So the painting has been non-existant, as you may have noticed from the lack of updates.

 Today I'm off the heavy pain killers so did some nice gentle painting =)

 Here's how it was last week after a spraypaint:

I bought a very cheap tube of black and another of white for this job as well as a couple of large brushes. All together probably not even $10 worth of supplies.

 Mixing the black and white to grey and doing a heavy drybrush resulted in this:

Another big squirt of white to the mix for a medium drybrush and then the rest of the white in for the final highlight drybrush and here's how it is at the moment:

Pretty happy with it really, quite quick and easy to do. Now I'm deciding whether or not to do a black wash along the brick lines (or over the whole thing) to further differentiate them.

 Will make up my mind tonight and either call it finished or do a wash tomorrow.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 5:06 AM

    Looks great!
    If in a match a swarm of archers charged to the top of it that would look pretty epic :)

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 1:12 PM

    I'm glad that the etching of the brickwork showed through, the drybrushing looks like it really brought out those details well! There's some really nice texture going on there too.

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    1. simmuskhanJanuary 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM

      The plaster that stuck gives it a nice texture and I put the glue on as "lumpily" as I could to try and end up with a non-uniform texture. I think it worked in the end, though I still wouldn't recommend this stuff as good for hobby building and next time will fork out for foam core or similar.

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  3. ScottswargamingJanuary 21, 2013 at 3:33 PM

    Very good, coming on well.

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  4. simmuskhanJanuary 22, 2013 at 2:41 PM

    Thanks, yeah, that was the second wisdom tooth I've had out and wasn't as bad as the first so all up not a complete disaster =) The real annoyance was that it was my son's second birthday AND the last few days of my holidays!

    Hope your teeth sort themselves out!

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  5. UnknownMay 9, 2016 at 9:32 PM

    i've had 3 and i had my first in prague when i was six on a holiday, im 15 now and getting braces in 18 months. :)

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