Dan’s 2024 Side Projects

For this model I wanted to try and copy the animation style with bright block colours more than the usual shades and highlights. This also worked better with Sabine’s armour which has lots of bright colour patterns on it (see reference images).

The under armour was painted corvus black. The armour panels were then painted with the following colours: averland sunset, jokaero orange, mephiston red, genestealer purple, skarsnik green, white scar, caledor blue, calgar blue.

The gauntlets and pistol were painted dawnstone.

The darksaber was painted naggaroth night then edge highlighted white scar.

A rather random selection of models that I received as part of last year’s Secret Satan. The psionics are a fantasy take on some famous sci-fi characters. The Gorgon is a well establish Greek fantasy monster. And who doesn’t want a goat?

I didn’t notice until I’d put my phot rig away that my camera had focussed on the front of the platform I put all the models on, rather than the models themselves, so the photos are all a bit blurry.

There’s nothing special in the paints used (i.e. its the typical paint combos I usually use).

This is another Rascaltown Goblin. This one was released at Salute, where I picked it up. I’ve also picked up the Rogue Hobbies signature paint set. I want to use these paints to try and paint the model in a very different style from how I paint, so I’m limiting myself to just those paints, plus black, white, and wraithbone (just for tidying up mistakes).

Rascaltown Pirate RH-004 – Made to Order

Signature Series Set 6 – Rogue Hobbies

These paints are all very bright, poppy colours. Rogue Hobbies have put out a couple of videos lately encouraging people to try to break away from the GW paint system (which I admit I usually default to).

The colours in the set are orange red, dark hot pink, bright green, dark turquoise, ultramarine, and bismuth yellow.

I turned each colour into a wash. The paints had been on my wet palette for about 24 hours, so were already diluted a bit. I took a few drops of paint, watered them down with several drops of water from my brush, and then added a small amount of black from by brush (i.e. I just had a bit of paint on the tip of the brush).

I didn’t necessarily use washes on the corresponding base colour. E.g. I used the blue wash on the yellow base painted areas. The red molluscs were washed green. The skin was washed purple.

Also, rather than applying washes everywhere, in the larger areas I deliberately limited the washes to the recesses.

I mixed highlights by taking a drop of each paint (fresh from the bottle) and mixing it roughly 50:50 with white paint.

The highlights were applied more or less to each colour to match the base colour.

For the base I thought I’d paint it brown and then apply some sand to give a beach effect.

In order to stick to my initial intentions, I tried mixing a brown using the paint colours I’d limited myself to. It did work and I got a decent sand brown. Unfortunately one coat wasn’t sufficient and I hadn’t mixed enough for a second. This was always my fear with mixing paints – struggling to duplicate the colours achieved.

So I gave up and just painted it zamesi desert.

I also realised I mixed all my sand in with other flocks to make a basing mix for my Bolt Action years ago. So I just stuck with a basic brown base. I feel it fits the cartoonish colour scheme.

An eclectic mix of minis. The Frostgrave ones came from last year’s Secret Satan. The Salute Mini obviously comes from my visit to Salute. The other one I bought for Dungeonalia but decided it was too small.

Colours used was nothing special, just my usual base, wash, two highlights approach.

These are some unusual minis from a recent kickstarter, the Eldertubbies.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/voidrealmminis/rise-of-the-eldertubbies?ref=user_menu

I took the “150mm” models and scaled them down to 66% to make some “100mm” scales minis which are a bit more practical for display.

I imagine these models represent the tellytubbies once they’ve got to late middle-age and life has beaten them down, combined with the fact that they’re actually monsters. They like to wonder the forest and eat children that wonder too close to watch their TV tummies. They struggle with drug addictions and bad life habits like smoking and alcoholism.

The base colours were warp lightning, iyanden yellow, blood angels red or syish purple contrast paints. This looked too clean for these darker themed minis, so they all got a layer of skeleton horde to grubby them up.

The faces and inner ears were painted grey seer then painted with apothecary white.

The claws were painted grey seer then painted skeleton horde.

The tummies got several layers of wraithbone to get a nice clean TV picture.

Which white rabbit would you like to follow?

These models are a 3D print from a recent kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/siryllart/alice-in-creepyland-stl/description

The model was undercoated black and then given a zenith of grey.

The skin was painted rakarth flesh and then highlighted flayed one flesh and then pallid wych flesh.

The rabbit fir was painted celestra grey and then highlighted ulthuan grey and then white scar.

The blue apron was painted macragge blue and then highlighted altdorf guard blue and then calgar blue.

The red leotard and jacket were painted khorne red and then highlighted evil sunz scarlet and then wild rider red.

The watches were painted retributor armour and then highlighted auric armour gold.

The caterpillar was painted sotek green and then washed coelia greenshade.

The blond hair was painted averland sunset and then highlighted flash gitz yellow.

The black hair was simply washed nuln oil and the previous zenith did the rest.

The Cheshire cat was painted screamer pink and then highlighted pink horror and then emperor’s children.

The caterpillar’s mouth were painted screamer pink and then washed carroburg crimson.

The teeth and claws were painted ushabti bone and then washed seraphim sepia.

The bases were painted waaagh! flesh and then washed biel-tan green.

The mushrooms were painted genestealer purple.

This is a 3D print from a Kickstarter a couple of years ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printomancer/butterfly-athalia-the-winged-sorceress-stl-model-1-12-scale/description

The model is 1/12th scale, so with the wings it stands about 30cm tall.

The skin started with a basecoat of bugman’s glow, and was then layered us over about five layers, adding in first cadian fleshtone, then kislev flesh, and then flayed one flesh.

The clothes were painted caliban green and they layered up with more and more skarsnik green being added.

The gold areas were painted xv-88, then retributor armour, and then highlighted liberator gold. The ruby areas were also painted this way and then painted spiritstone red.

The hair was painted averland sunset and then layered up with flash gitz yellow being added in and then a bit of white scar.

The eyes and butterflies were painted ulthuan grey. The lips, toe and finger nails were painted evil sunz scarlet. The eye irises were painted lothern blue and then the pupils abaddon black.

The wings were left with their white undercoat and then lightly drybrushed in areas with hellion green and golden griffon. I was trying to give the wings a light, delicate, almost ethereal appearance.

The butterflies were painted aethermatic blue.