Pumpkin Plog

[Another Richard]

Yes, he is ish... I was talking to someone about them and they suggested the surfing style riders and that they should have scythes rather than spears and hand weapons to keep them in the Halloween theme. I liked the idea so I made one guy with a longer hood and painted him in black as he suggested rather than the army's normal colour scheme. Incidentally Andy, I used a black mixed with a cream colour to highlight the black as you told me to a few weeks back, and I think it worked ok. Thanks for the tip!. When I get around to it I'll replace his left arm with an hour glass or a pointing finger and in then his spare time he can double up as a shaman.

The painting only happens when my partner is doing her course-work. The finish dates on a fair number of units are directly related to those of her essays. But to be honest this was always what I did to wind down from work so sitting down and spending a few hours on it on a weekend is a good use of time for me.

[Blue Moon]

Good stuff, glad the tip worked. My favourite of the chaps is the one with the pumpkin lid on his head! Classic! I was also quite interested about your method of painting the goblin skin. Never heard that before. Maybe you could do a step by step tutorial for that. Do you think it would work with Orcs as well, or would it be too light?


Andy

[Another Richard]

The tutorial is: paint bronzed flesh and ink with Winsor Newton green ink, tidy up with a mix of bronzed flesh and camo green. I tried it with a few orcs but it didn't work on the large muscled orc skin surfaces and like you say they looked too pail. It only seems to work with the goblins because the models have so many crevices.   

I have found a good way of painting orcs which I have used on my boar riders but it is old-school highlighting and low lighting and is very laborious by comparison. If I ever revisit them I'll certainly post a step by step for them.

[fatolaf]

Mate, looking excellent....

[Another Richard]

Got a bit of painting in over the weekend and finished off the Pumpkin hoppers.
The problem of how to make the hoppers look like they're moving I had decided to solve by mounting them on a sort of coiled tendril. This was a bit of wire passing though the base and glued underneath acting as a sort of spring. I know pumpkins don't grow like this but frankly they are animated, bouncing, killer pumpkins so they can grow as they see fit.

I normally have a handful of the flagstone bases pre-prepared so I can finish models quicker but unfortunately painting them first was a bit of a waste of time as I needed to drill though, green stuff, and paint the coiled tendril.



I tried with one originally just to get it right but found the wire on it's own looked a bit lame so I added some green stuff leaves (very blobby and with my finger prints all over them) to the wire and it seemed to make all the difference. Chances are that these are the bits I will have to glue back on after every game but I think they look good and keep the organic look going (BTW for those who care the chap on the left is Gerald the bar keep for the Mordhime final).



This is a shot from the back which shows the foliage in more detail



I found that rather than being able to hang the models over the front of the base as I had originally intended as the models are just too top heavy they have ended up hovering rather than bounding. I have added some roofing lead (comes in a big roll which I cut it to size with some big scissors) to the underside but I still had to position the pumpkins over the base to maintain some stability.

These guys complete the force I will be taking to the GT in October.

[Blue Moon]

Magnificent!

Great work with Gerald too!

[Veldemere]

Just stunning Rich, great job, well done mate 

[fatolaf]

Excellent work fella, you must be in with a big shout for a nomination at the GT...

[Julien]

I can only dream to paint like this one day.

[Another Richard]

It's all bout finding ways to cheat Julien, drybrushing and ink are the way forward.