Spring Clean 2023. Painting everything from 2022

Started with IDF Israeli Sand Grey prime, Payne’s Grey wash and Pale sand drybrush.

Skin – Dwarf Skin (Vallejo Xpress Color) worked in as au undiluted glaze/tint.

Tongue, back recesses and blood vessels – Deep Purple (Vallejo Xpress Color).

Tongue highlight – Tan Earth (Vallejo Model Air).

Nails, bone, teeth – Bone White (Vallejo Game Color OOP) glazes followed by a glaze of Orange Rust (Vallejo Model Air), then a final glaze near the tips of Bone White.

Sword handle and cross guard – Space Grey (Vallejo Xpress Color)

Rusty weapons and chest rings– Cam Black Brown (Vallejo Model Air) followed by stippling Rust, Light Rust and Orange Rust (all Vallejo Model Air). Gunmetal (Vallejo Model Color) mixed with Panzer Dark Grey (Vallejo Model Air) and airbrush thinner was added to the weapons after varnishing.

IDF Israeli Sand Grey prime, Payne’s Grey wash and Pale sand drybrush to start.

Skin – Used Dwarf Skin (Vallejo Xpress Color) as a tint/glaze by working it in with an older brush.

Mane, tail, lower 2/3rds of the legs and back of ears – Several passes of Black Shade wash (Vallejo). A brown black glaze would maybe have been better here.

Straps on baggage, harness, tin box handles and eye – Copper Brown (Vallejo Xpress Color).

Edge of ears, nostrils and pupil – Black ink (Liquitex).

Under blanket, bedroll and tin boxes – Plague Green (Vallejo Xpress Color).

Inner mouth – Earth Tan (Vallejo Model Air).

Teeth – Bone White (Vallejo Game Color OOP).

Crates- https://www.ontabletop.com/featured/gerry-can-show-you-the-basics-of-new-wood/Gerry Can New Wood but used what paints I had (Had trouble finding a light brown and the Orc Brown turned out a bit yellow):

Main Crate – Orc Brown (Citadel Colour 90s round OOP)

Supports – German Cam Beige (Vallejo Model Color)

Black Shade Wash (Vallejo)

Orc Brown drybrush

The final miniature from 2022 (on a square base as nature intended).

This was my first attempt at painting fire so I tried following Vince Venturella’s Hobby Cheating 117 How to paint fire (see You Tube video below).

My first mistake was priming in IDF Israeli Grey before watching the tutorial, I should have went for a Desert Sand or something. The problem that this caused was that I had to do several coats of yellow ink which counteracted my zenithal.

For the zentihal I put Light Rust (Vallejo Model Air) in my airbrush cup and gently sprayed from above causing my airbrush to make a whistling sound and occasionally splatter out onto the phoenix as flaky bits of paint/pigment (maybe even rust) clogged my airbrush. After thoroughly cleaning out my airbrush I mixed Tan Earth, Orange Rust and Rot Braun together to an approximately similar colour to Light Rust and sprayed this from above.

The next step was a yellow ink airbrush spray. The yellow ink I have is Firestorm Yellow from Citadel (round tub, possibly from the 90s). I knew that version of ink would wipe off with water after it had dried so I mixed it with Vallejo Matt Varnish and some airbrush thinner, giving a nice yellow colour (until it dried and had a slight green tint, which I thought might be okay once I drybrushed).

Sitting down in preparation for Yellow Belly Tabletop (https://www.youtube.com/@yellowbellytabletop ) I drybrushed with Orange Rust (Vallejo Model Air). The yellow still looked like it had a green tint. So I set the model aside and started removing mould lines from Dead Man’s Hand plastic gunslingers while unintentionally bullying David into painting his spring clean challenge instead of the project he was wanting to work on and getting the feeling that I had also insulted Sundancer.

After several coats of my yellow ink and matt varnish mix I drybrushed Orange Rust again. I then mixed Crimson ink (Daler Rowney FW) with Orange Rust and did a lot of the tips. This was followed by a glazes of Hull Red (Vallejo Model Color).

I then forgot about the Yellow mixed with Orange Rust glaze stage and declared myself done and my spring clean challenge completed.