With the start of December, #Kitbashember is over and done with. I've started painting the Necrons I made so here's a WIP group photo.
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| Image from NASA |
The lion sat knee deep in the sand. It had never moved. The grey sun scorched the sand and the cold limbs of the lion. Were any living creature to come near, it would feel the warmth drawn out of the air around the lion, such that the baking sand of the desert gave way to an abrupt cold spot. But nothing living had ever been near.
The sun set and rose, and every day the lion drew every bit of warmth that fell on it into its stone body. Frost touched the sand around it. The sun rose and set, for thousands of years, each day giving its warmth to the lion, so that the lion must have imbibed and stored the power of a thousand thousand days of grey sunlight.
One night the sun set and the first sound to ever be heard in that desert rang out. “AWAKEN”. Somewhere deep in the ground beneath the lion, doors opened. The lion moved for the first time, rising to its feet, sand cascading from its haunches, to wait for the tombs to open.
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| Who's that lurking at the back, unpainted? |
I might continue this project for a couple more kitbashes. Stay tuned...
Hek
Dang, these are awesome! I particularly like the champion with the Tyranid torso/ skink arms and the Flayed One with the scythe.
ReplyDeleteCould you please share what paints/ colors you used for this project, particularly the brick red and oxidized green? Thank you!
Thanks Mac, and sorry to take so long to reply to you.
DeleteI always use Vallejo acrylics and I have a fairly limited set, so I'm always mixing to get the right colours.
For the red, it's a combination of Blood Red, Bronze Flesh, Beasty Brown and Black. Effectively the Blood Red is the dominant colour in the mix and the other colours are mixed in by eye to mute it slightly and give it a more neutral sandy colour. The mix proportions are varied to use as shade and highlight, so there's more Bronze Flesh on the upper lit surfaces and more Black in the recesses.
For the green, that's a mix of Gold and Gunmetal with Goblin Green and a really cheap off-brand vivid sky-blue acrylic I got in a craft shop. Again, mixed by eye, then highlighted with some white mixed into that green mix.
When painting "materials" like this it's fun to work with whatever "looks right", so you can afford to make it a little messy, whatever looks like a naturalistic material.