Thursday, December 4, 2008

Centaurs & Silver

Since I didn't take photographs of my progress on the next two Centaurs, today's eye candy is from our last Castle Devin "Road Rash" game. Terrain and figures from the collection of Tim the Elder. I took this photograph on August 2nd, 2008.
Sir George Devin (aka TtE) and his men have just entered through the main gate. They are bringing a wagon load of taxes they collected from the oppressed locals to his nasty liege lord and older half-brother Sir John Devin (aka Poppa John).

While Tim was prepared with baubles to fill the wagon, I had to replace them with sterling silver casting grain. After all, we needed loot worth fighting over!

Back to the Centaurs. Tuesday night I re-primed. The original white priming was an air-brush experiment. While it works great on the Epic scale Space Marines, I wasn't too happy with it as I painted the first Centaur. It seemed too thin and prone to scratch throughs. This time I used a watered down craft store white acrylic.

The original black was an experiment using Grumbacher tube artist's paint. It gives a good deep black, but didn't cover as well as I had hoped. So it was back to thinned el cheapo craft store acrylics. There were some areas in the mail where I had trouble getting into the crevices.
I didn't get started last night until after nine. I did manage to get all of the mail dry-brushed with gunmetal. Then I painted the armour with shiny silver. I thinned GW's black ink to shade all of the armour edges and the edges of the trim around the mail. Then a final highlighting of the plates. That was it for last night. I wasn't able to get to re-painting the areas that got slopped over.
You can say, "I'll get that later." (I can't remember how our gaming group got started saying that, but there are times when it's appropriate!)

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