Good. Bad. I'm the one with the gun.

I think you are on the right track. Good work on the comic book highlighting (I'm a huge comics geek myself). I think using a glaze is going to really help with the fire glow, the transitions at the moment are too abrupt. Don't be scared, you can paint over just about anything and it's ALWAYS better on your subsequent tries! So give it a blue glaze, and bring the highlights back up again. Just be sure you are thinning your paints down, just add a bit of water to the paint.

I forgot to ask, are these GW skeletons? Because the GW ones I've seen are pretty bad, and these look good. I know the Mantic ones are great (the only ones I've seen I really like).

Edited September 7, 2016 by Dez

Thanks!

For whatever reason, I never seem to get the GW base paints thinned enough.  Not sure why that is...  But that is part of what is going wrong with my flames for sure.  Thank you for the encouragement, I'll give the glaze a try.  I have Guilman blue, which I think should be the correct glaze color.

2 hours ago, Dez said:

I forgot to ask, are these GW skeletons? Because the GW ones I've seen are pretty bad, and these look good. I know the Mantic ones are great (the only ones I've seen I really like).

Yup, these are the GW Deathrattle (used to be Vampire Counts) Skellies.  You may be thinking of the Tomb Kings Skellies.  They were not great.  I mean, they had their charm and all, and I liked them...  But not because they were great models.

These in particular are from the Start Collecting Deathrattle box.  But should be exactly the same as what comes in the Skellies box that you can buy separately.

Anyway, you might be thinking of these:

These are some old photo's of my TK skellies.  Top are color test photos.  Bottom is some WIP.

The blue-black looks good on the robes and cloth, less so on the wooden shield (coffin door and circle inside). probably because it comes off as a midnight blue more than black, which is totally rad, and looks like lighting effects from his glowing scythe.

On the wood the question is why is it blue OR black? especially in the cracks where black paint over wood would be chipped off.

Like your bone color too!

And I think these vampire counts skeletons are freaking awesome models! I'm looking forward to their Aos reboxing before I get more than my starting 20

14 hours ago, CrimsonKing said:

The blue-black looks good on the robes and cloth, less so on the wooden shield (coffin door and circle inside). probably because it comes off as a midnight blue more than black, which is totally rad, and looks like lighting effects from his glowing scythe.

On the wood the question is why is it blue OR black? especially in the cracks where black paint over wood would be chipped off.

Like your bone color too!

And I think these vampire counts skeletons are freaking awesome models! I'm looking forward to their Aos reboxing before I get more than my starting 20

Thanks!!!

Ok, here is where I get embarrassed.  I was thinking more of my color scheme than I was thinking about the wood...

Truthfully, I'm trying to keep my pallet limited for the skellies.  I want them to look good, but there are likely to be a lot of them, and I don't want them to take forever to paint.

So, considering that, I guess I have two options, the first is that I could figure out a different way to paint the wood...  I'd likely go graveyard earth with either a Nuln oil or Agrax Earthshade wash to keep it dark and not draw too much attention...  Or, I could just make up a story as to why the wood in this part of the realms is just back.  

I still intend to use the blue highlights on the black, since I'm emulating a specific comic book technique here, so I'm not so concerned about realism.

Thoughts?