Hellboy (an old Spring Clean Challenge)

You OTT members are the best. Have to say a big thanks for all the recomendations. I was thinking I might break 500 with a few more consistant entries but when I saw 700 + this morning it made my day.

Kriegaffe , He’s got a gun and Iron Boots done

When trying to paint a whole box full of minis at once its still good to focus on groups that are either the same or will use a similar palette or maybe just require similar techniques. With so few left to go I am loosely working on them all at once but focused heavily thes last few days on the hairy ones.

Did I mention that our last gaming session was cancelled at the last moment due to a vomiting girlfriend? Well them’s the breaks. But it was serendipitous in that I got to finish the Conqueror worm before it was required in this weekend’s get together. Yay!

Strange how all the agonising over how to handle this large mini ended with such a simple solution. I had decided on the direction I wanted to take it, and stayed the course but still had a few moments towards the end thinking my pallete was to small for this to be complete. After zenithing I used some Art Spectrum White Opaque Ink, Badger Opaque Yellow Ink, and Holcroft Melon India Ink to create the orages. There were a few moments where I dabbed in a little Flash Gitz or Wild Rider (great colour matches to the ink) to hep control flow. A little Art Spectrum Burnt Sienna glaze over to darken some areas and a final Abbadon Black drybrush to the extremities to char.

The conqueror worm, hmm, have to say there’s some interesting interpretations of the board game version of conqueror worm and there’s some great ones ,I quite like uglebs (https://www.ontabletop.com/project/1392178/ version , but my own interpretation is still not one I’ve found anywhere else. I keep seeing it as a creature that burst up from the molten rock depths and is almost white with heat. The original art and my interpretation will require and almost inverse shading effect so below is my re zenith followed by some basic white, yellow and orange inks through my airbrush. Next, brushing in the rest of the detail starting with a drybrush of black.

Not green stuff green stuf but dark green paint.

I had been a little perplexed with the finish of my Hellboys and didn’t think I had adequate contrast then I stummbled on an old 3 Colour Up tutorial.

https://www.ontabletop.com/3-colors-up/skin-tone-tutorials-demonic-red-part/

Basicaly it goes into how green is a great colour to shade red, opening my eyes and proving just how little atention I was paying to colour therory in Art school.

So swallowing my fear I made used a very thin mix of Vallego cam dark green and set to uping the shade. I was so happy with the result and I think you should be able to see the difference if you compare to the earlier photos below.

So social distancing is relaxing in my corner of the world and we are allowed to get together and game this Thursday but I’m not quite done. So I vow to get over myself and aim to get as many as possible acceptable for the table top (I don’t think any of my painting gets past table top ready really but still I like to pretend I have standards) And I vow to my self to finish them later.

So below is a record of my current level of finish. I dont believe any are quite 100% and you will spot the odd bit here and there but for once I’m glad the pics are showing the faults, it makes them easier to spot and I have a record of them for when I sit down to fix and finish over the coming weeks