Painted Griffon the second

More Retribution this week, surprise, surprise!  

This is technically my third Griffon, but the second I've painted in this variation of the official scheme.  This is the plastic one that came in the Battlebox, and I was impressed with the potential for poses since I didn't have to worry about pinning.  I wanted to copy the pose that's in the Retribution book, but shoulder pads and arm things get in the way a little.  I think I got the point across.

 

As I said in my previous post, I painted this Griffon with my Aspis.  I pushed the highlights a little higher with my airbrush and that worried me a bit that I had overdone it, but it worked out in the end.  Let that be a lesson to never give up on something just because it didn't quite come out how you expected.

I have been playing even more with my airbrush recently using different colors and I'm pleased with what I'm learning.  I tested drab green and Khador red on a MoW Shock Trooper that I think looks great, and I've been playing more with blues on an Avenger that I'm also pleased with.  Right now I'm only really using the airbrush to get figures tabletop ready, but I'm excited about the possibilities of using an airbrush for certain things on competition figures.  I think NMM on swords and similar weapons will be a breeze and turn out really smooth. 

I'll have pics of the Avenger and MoW Shock Trooper in the following weeks.  

I've also had a lot of people ask about a tutorial for my Retribution white, and one is coming!  I've never done a step by step with pictures, so I have to work the logistics out for this, but I'm working on it!  The demo model will either be a Gorgon or Artificer.

Comments and questions welcome!

Tabletop Kriel Warriors and a rookie mistake.

I've had my Trollbloods for quite some time now, and in light of my recent post, I decided to power through my unit of Kriel Warriors and make something work. I figured out the recipe for a skin color that worked for me and painted these guys up in a couple of nights. They are only tabletop quality and I had to let go a bit, but they represent what they are meant for and look good from 4 feet away.

So I finished them and went to seal them. I walked outside and grabbed the can of what I thought was my sealant. I sprayed some and thought it looked awfully brown, one more spray confirmed it, I hit a few models with Testors model color brown. So now, if you look closely, you can see a few warriors look like they've been through a mud bath. I was irked for a few minutes but decided not to go back and repaint them, they will just be a few who got in the way of a couple of Dire Trolls and got tossed aside in the mud. Snow and dead grass will be added to the base since these guys follow Borka around.