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So unfortunately I can only give a small update on my progress because I only managed an hour or so total hobby time this week (trying to work out a colour scheme + baby + working lots = sad hobby time).
After much deliberating I decided the scales would be purple as I thought this would be both complimentary and contrasting to the sickly skin, as always the pictures are not 100% true to reality because phone cameras just never are. I am really happy with how the wrist scales really bring out the gold trim on the bracers. The model feels like it is slowly coming to life, this will speed up significantly after all the major components of the colour scheme are worked out. The areas I still need to work on are; bones/teeth/nails, the hair (I was originally going for a simple brown but seeing the purple scales I feel this may look to warm?), the cloth (probably a deep red), the axe head (NMM Silver) and various other minor areas.
For me I find colour theory exceptionally hard to get my head around fully but I believe that colour scheme is possibly the most important part of painting a great mini, it doesn't matter how smooth your blending is if the two main colours of your mini clash horribly.
I blended each scale individually, in the past I would have probably gone for a dry brush but I never feel it looks particularly good, it was pretty quick using the loaded brush technique. I know 100% I can improve but I am really happy with my progress as a painter. I will admit I had to re-blend a few of the scales as the highlight was too bright and just stood out like a sore thumb but I managed to bring everything in line.
I am really hoping I can get this guy and my three dragon ogors done in time for the summer campaign (I really hope its a slow grow campaign, a veeeery slow grow campaign at that). If I do I will probably pick up a second box of dragon ogors to build with the glaives for the rend.
This week I ordered a 60mm base for this guy and a dremmel tool so I can hack it to bits and rebuild it. I'm gonna use some of the same techniques I used in my blog post about basing but build it up in a much more intricate way. If it goes well I will definitely do a how to post on it.
Anyways enough rambling from me, please comment any C&C I really appreciate it! Thanks!
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