Sláine: Kiss My Paintbrush!

Balor of the Evil Eye.  Superb sculpt based on the iconic artwork.

I wanted something pretty close to the artwork but with my chosen Plasmatic Bolt skintone (the art has a tanned skin colour).

Painting the stag
I mixed a couple of blends for this one.  I wanted a dark to light fur tone on the stag so started with neat Dark Wood and painted the upper legs, undeneath and a third of the way up the body. To this I blended in some Hardened Leather as a wet blend on the model and in a plastic pallette (these Speedpaints soak through the paper used on a wet pallette).  This provided a band acorss the middle third of the model and up the underside of the neck and chin and down the legs.  For the top surfaces I blended some water into the mix on the pallette and then added Palid bone and this was wet blended into the painted edge on the model and then blended up to cover the upper surface.
It all dried a tad darker than I might have liked but the effect I wanted is definitely there and I’m pleased with it.   Antlers were pure Palid Bone with the ends wiped to create the highlight.
Painting Balor
Skintone in Plasmatic Bolt again (love this colour).  He has a bit of cloth around his waist.  I went for a dark purple using Hive Dweller Purple which is quite dark so got a very delicate highlight with P3 Sanguine Highlight (not a common paint in the UK, it is a mid tone blend of pink and purple).  Hair is Grim Black with a dark grey highlight.

NMM
I’m using NMM throughout this project for the very poppy, graphic style.  Sword blade was Greylord Grey and  handle Zealot Yellow with a wipe along the edges.  Blood effect from Citadel Technical Blood for the Blood God.
Taking inspiration from the artwork I’m going for a bright gold with a faintly greenish hue, but I don’t want the brown undertones Bisley used so this is going to be very bright.  We won’t miss him on the table that’s for sure!
I blended drops of Zealot Yellow with Malignant Green and water (2:2:2) and got a very close match to the artwork.  I really wanted it to pop so went for an edge highlight using Vallejo Model Air Duck Egg Green.  As the name suggests this is a very desaturated green.  I was so pleased with the results I glazed extra highlights to the tops of the shoulder pauldrons and the wrist ovals.  I’ve got quite a bright lightbox so have turned down the Brightness by 100 on these images so you can see the highlight placement better: