My First Army

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Project Entry by Warthwolk

Fly my pretties

December 14, 2020

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Took me a while to do these since I was painting the body and arms separately and then putting together at end of painting.

I had a go at sponging the carapaces after I felt like I wasn’t getting want I wanted from fading three colors.

So instead of what I’d done before, I based the carapaces with Phoenician purple. Then, going left to rights, top to bottom I sponged on the other 7 colours applying randomly as I seen fit which gave me a look that I loved.

carapaces colours

For the body I used the below paints.

I had also been experimenting with fluoresce paint so gave that a go I’d always liked the idea of my Nid’s having evolved after eating an Avatar like world.

I used Contrast Gryph-Hound Orange as the base like before, by for highlight I mixed Orange fluoresce in with my normal Fire Dragon Bright and Lugganath Orange highlights. I couldn’t just us the fluoresce on it’s own as it was to bright and plasticly looking.

Body paint

Colours used for the wings, thinned down with contract thinner and applied left to right, with each being thinner than the previous.

When I finished the wings on all the models, something felt off. I happened at the time to be doing the tongues so had pink on my brush so as a though I used it to edge a wing. It instantly made the wing pop so I decided that I’d highlight all the wings edges, but darken down the pink as it was to bright. I also wondering what it would look like with fluoresce so I mixed about of that in too.

For a laugh I used the same mix to edge the carapace and again it just made it pop plus the glow was cool.