Karate Forms in Miniature...
Bassai (The Cobra)
Choosing a mini
The form is here in what looks like a rather old school video. I’m not entirely sure if the form shown in the video (from shotokan) is the same the form in Kong Sudo as I haven’t learned this form yet – but the first few moves look the same to me at least!
Bassai is the Cobra form. Not a hard one this for a mini!
Reaper minis have this rather cool thing so I dove straight in with a base coat of Wraithbone.
Base coat of WraithbonePainting
Again I used contrast – this mini looked ripe for contrast.
I used:
- Creed Camo for the skin. It’s quite a nice warm and ‘jungle’ type green to my mind. Milatarum green was another option.
- Skeleton Hoard for the underbelly. (2 coats and coaxing the paint into the under ridges).
- That’s it…
First bits of paint... I decided to create some black stripes and used Black Templator contrast over the top of the green. In future I’d probably undercoat with Wraithbone again as there was no highlighting from the contrast when put on top of the green…
Applied the usual trick of a light dry brush of Tryant Skull which I think fixed the Black Templar issue.
Did the eyes with an undercoat of Wraithbone and then Blood Angels Red.
Played around with doing some cuts and scrapes on the skin of the Cobra, but I don’t like it and they need fixing!
Started on the stone the Cobra is one – thought a strong Yellow would be a good base before layering up with some lighter stone colours (but not got that far yet).
More to come!
Progress so far...
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