This guy I painted for the Golden Serpent competition on Lustria Online last Year:
With the idea in my mind of an agile and striking old blood pursuing a victim across the jungle I started working on this mini.
The first step was to make the Olblood look unique, to do this I used some bits from the carnosaur kit and the remaining weapon and head options for the old blood to create my guy. The first step was choosing the correct Bits, I did this by using silly Putty to put the pieces together and pose my guy:
After that I glued everything together, magnetized the arm so that it could have different weapon options and used green stuff to sculpt everything together:
After this I had to create the base, for it I used cold porcelain and a mixture of branches earth and stone:
Than it was time to start painting the guy on top.
I first started with a Black Primer.
Than I proceded to paint it to have a base of the colors I thought would give me a good starting point for my end result. At this point I already knew that I wanted to use Blue, Yellow and Pink in my model and that I wanted it to be super saturated
After I had my base colors ready, I started to work on the skin and the transition to the scales, making it so that it wasn't so abrupt. The skink I tried to use a mixture of purple and brown for the recesses and highlight with a mixture of yellow and bone on the edges, this was probably the longest part
I continued doing this until I felt confortable with the results, at which point I added some small dots to the pectoral muscles to give it a little more depth.
Following this I worked on the scales, here I used very simple techniques of layering the blues to get to a lighter blue at the edge of the scales, and I decided to break the monotony by painting the middle scales different.
Latter was time for the face, and probably the part that I enjoyed the most, I pretty much used the same technics explained before but added sume glossy medium to the mouth
the last part was the metals, and a slight OSL on the hand of the gods weapon he carries
Having finished the Oldblood I worked on the Goblin, the hardest par here was working on the face and the free hand designs.
Here is How It ended up looking after everything was put together: