Painting Update!

Boy it's been a little bit since I posted one? At least on the blog. 

Since the last one I did, I managed to finish that Hunter of the Left-Hand Path, a Sorcerer, and a Pit Locust! All we have left is a Praetor and Desecrated Saint from the Court Army, both of which I want to figure out some kitbash ideas for. 

Anyway, here's what I came up with for the crew so far! Besides using the new Villainy Inks(I am also ordering my next bunch of them, btw), I got some oils I've been utilizing. (Even found some ABT Dead Flesh, which is out of circulation atm.) Otherwise, these all use a mix of those, Dirty Down effects, and classic acrylics and speedpaints-Army Painter, Citadel, Scale 75 and Vallejo. AP are my normal workhorse acrylics(need to be gentle around them with spirits, but it works), but I use what gives me the colors I need. Scale 75 has some metallics I really like! 

I'm just gonna shoot the three recent models right down,

The Hunter of the Left-Hand Path has minimal kitbashing. His sculpt is really cool as it is, but because he's a hunter, and clearly wears the trophies of his quarry, I thought giving him an extra gnarly maned skull 'helmet' that he skinned might be cool. Possibly a bit of a controversial pick because he does have a very neat sculpt, but I like it. 

Painting eyes is one of my bugbears, and this guy had way too many, but at least they were dead eyes on his cloak. I went for a 'river of blood' on the haunted plains where he hunts for a base theme. The Villainy Inks and ABT Oils are so much fun to use so far. (I wish I had gotten Dead Flesh before I finished this guy, but I might go back and touch him up with that one day, we'll see.) 

Next up, and probably one of my fav sculpts, was the Sorcerer. The Baphomet-like look just tickles the black metal nut in me in all sorts of ways, and I had fun adding some varied kitbashes onto him, like the inverted procession cross, extra barbed wire, chains, and skulls. Also, hair. I love adding the uncanny hair to make it look more disturbing. This guy had a lot of room to play.

And yes, I had a lot of my usual soundtracks cranking while painting these guys. I really like how this guy turned out! To be honest I was happy with all three of these and I feel like I've 'leveled up' messing with this mixed media. (Oh yeah, I did add some tissue to the lower cloak parts at some parts, to try to get it skin-like and to give some surface variation.) For the base I went for an 'altar' look, that weird shrine thing in the front was inspired by games like Diablo and Path of Exile(those crude, skull-and-stick build shrines you come across and have to defeat waves of enemies. I love Path of Exile and like to take some bits of inspiration.) 

Finally, the Pit Locust. A very strange looking dog-horse-human-demon...thing(basically some affront to god), he had a wing knocked off in a bit of an incident(a mahjong set fell off my bookshelf, odd, I know), and I couldn't find it to glue it back on. So I took an old cannon from the rat ogor set, and decided that the Hells decided to graft and chain the thing onto him, because why the hell not. More uncanny hair makes this slobbery nightmare even more disturbing, and a dusty base isn't anything too 'special'(he, like the rest, is meant to be a 'playing piece' so I didn't want to go TOO overboard), but just a nice bunch of ruins. 

Anyway, these guys have been a whole lot of fun, and I'm ordering more Villainy Inks as we speak(grabbing the Flesh Core I set and some extra colors I am interested in.) I'll almost have the whole set by that point, I think I'll be missing four colors which I'll get around to getting.

So that's what I've been working on as of late! At the moment I'm adding some kitbash bits to my Praetor(a messed-up looking scourge weapon, some chains and spikes, as per usual), and Sin Eater for a Mercenary(a chain lower cloak, and some bits of chain added around.) 

Just wanted to give another update! Back to my replay of FFV(which is one of my favorite, and rather underrated, FFs!)