Finished up the rest of the steel, and filled in the last of the leather. I think he's done except the base.
Monday, February 10, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Duelist: Leather, Metal
Did shading and highlighting on some of the remaining leather bits, and base coated the remaining metal bits. Oh, and put a wash on the tree stump. It ended up a little darker than I wanted. There's actually not a lot left to do; I'm hoping I can finish him this weekend.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Duelist: Leather, Sand
Got a base coat on the leather straps and bits, and then base coated the sand he's standing on. Still debating on the color for the axe handle. Might shade and highlight the straps, then base coat some of the remaining metal bits next.
Monday, February 3, 2025
Duelist: Steel, Tree
Did shading and highlights on the blades and the necklace, and put a base coat on the dead tree he's standing on. Oh, and part of the bracer. Probably next I'll finish the bracer and start the belts and straps around his waist.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Duelist: Leather
Worked on the leather skirt/armor? thing. I don't love it, I might mess with it some more. Or I might not, I'm getting sick of this dude.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Duelist: Pants Highlights, steel
Today I got highlights on his pants and base coated some of the bits that are going to be steel - the blades and his necklace. Probably next will be shading and highlights on the dark brown skirt thing.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Duelist: Shading Pants
I didn't get a lot done today. I got a couple rounds of shadow on his pants, and that was it. Probably should have put stripes on them. Still could.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Duelist: Gold, Leather, Armor?
Today I added another highlight to the leather, finished the gold, and then got sick of the big white area that's the skirt/armor stuff, so I put a base coat on that. Not sure where I'm going to go from here, maybe finish the pants.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Duelist: Tattoos, Leather
Got highlights on the tattoos. Also got some more shadow and highlights on the leather. Oh, and then a base coat on the torcs, which are going to be gold. The one on his calf is silly; no way it would stay up.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Duelist: Leather
I should have done highlights on the tattoos, but I wasn't feeling it. Instead, I did the leather strappy bits - his sandal, the wraps on his arm, the ties in his hair. I got a round of shading on the leather, too. It probably needs a second shadow.
Next time, something will get highlights, either the tattoos or the leather.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Duelist: More Hair, More Tattoos
I added another round of highlights on the hair. Then I base coated the rest of the tattoos. They look a little weird - they need to be shaded and highlighted like the skin. I shaded them, but there are no highlights yet.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Duelist: Hair, Tattoos
I got shading and highlights on his hair, though I might need to do another round of highlights. Then I started messing with the tattoos. According to The Internet, which is now even less reliable than it used to be, we don't know if Vikings typically had tattoos or not, much less what they looked like. However, it's speculated that if they did, they'd probably have been dark blue in color because that's what happens when you use wood ash in your ink.
So, I got a dark blue and mixed it with a bit of my skin color, then put that on the tattoos sculpted on his legs. I'm not sure if I like it, so I'm going to give it some thought before proceeding. I'd like them to be less saturated, I think.
Monday, January 20, 2025
Duelist: Skin Highlights, Face, Hair, Pants
I got a last round of highlights on his skin. I need to clean up a few areas, but mostly I'm happy with the results. I also did the details on his face, which for this guy is really just the eyes. Then I base coated his hair, and then his pants with the blue I'd mixed for his eyes.
Next I'll finish the hair. Then, I'm not sure. Maybe finish the pants, maybe do some of the leather straps and wraps, maybe decide what to do with the tattoos.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Duelist: More Shading
Second round of shading on the duelist. Needs a lot of cleanup. I'm also debating if I want another layer of shadow or not. Probably.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Duelist: Skin shading. Hroka: Skin base.
I've gotten back to the duelist. I started the first round of shadows on his skin. It's not done but I got pretty far; still have to do his back, neck, and head..
And this is the next Arena Rex figure I'm going to do. This is Hroka. She's primed and has a base coat of skin. She carries a shield on her other arm, which is not attached yet.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
1!
Finished Aquila today. I put him in the 'he's OK' category. Could be better, could be worse. But, he does finish off a group of 5 for one of my Arena Rex factions.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Aquila: Metals
I did shading and highlights on Aquila's metal today. I didn't do it well. I was impatient and not really feeling it, so I wasn't as careful as I should have been. When I realized I was having a problem, I decided I didn't feel strongly enough about it to try to fix it. So, the shading is pretty chunky and the highlights aren't great. It didn't help that the bight gold I used did the thing where it went on fine, but then dried weird, much less bright and shiny. I'm not sure why that keeps happening with these paints.
Anyway, I might go back and fix parts of it, but probably not much. A lot of it isn't that visible, particularly considering that this guy is a gaming figure. We'll see.
I also started on the base.
Monday, January 6, 2025
Aquila: Bronze Base
I got the base coat on all the bronze today. I need to shade and highlight the metals, and then it'll be the base. Should be able to finish him this week.
Friday, January 3, 2025
Aquila: Leather, Cloak done
Finished up highlights on the leather and fur cloak. Also got a base coat on the blade of his sword.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Aquila: Leather, Cloak
Base coated and shaded the leather bits, and then since I had the color out anyway I put the base coat on his fur cloak. Next will be finishing those two parts. He's getting there.