Chris Palmer
This past week I painted a pair of the Hivewardens from the Bones 4 Dreadmere Expansion. I saw these just as usable as Pulp Sci-Fi baddies as Fantasy creatures.
I prepped the figures in the usual way, soaking them in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving them a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying them. I then glued them to 1.25" brown-primed fender washers with Aleene’s Tacky glue. I then glued the washers onto a tongue depressor with a couple drops of Elmer’s white glue.
I began by painting the main tentacles with Folk Art “Poppy Seed”. I then painted the brains with Crafter’s Acrylic “Tutti Frutti”, and the mouth tentacles with Americana “Charcoal”.
Next, I painted the backsides of the brains with Pathfinder MSP “Urgathoa Red”, and then set the figures aside to dry for a while. When I returned to working on them, I gave both the brains a coat of Citadel “Reikland Fleshshade” wash. When this wash was dry, I then gave all the tentacles a coat of Citadel “Nuln Oil” wash.
When the final coat of wash was dry, I drybrushed the brains with some Reaper MSP “Brest Cancer Awareness Pink”, and then went back with a brush and applied some direct highlights to the brain ridges. Then I added a little Americana “Snow White” to the pink and did a little lighter drybrush. Next, I drybrushed the tentacles with Americana “Jade Green”, and then a little Americana “Olive Green”, and lastly some Americana “Margarita”. After that, I painted highlights on the mouth tentacles with some Americana “Grey Sky” mixed with some of the base “Charcoal”
Overall, I’m pretty pleased with how they came out. There are mold lines that run around the equator of the brains, that were just terrible. Normally I don’t mess with mold lines to a big degree unless they are particularly obnoxious, but these really stood out; and being on the ridged surface of the brains they were almost impossible to deal with. Also, the tentacles, being so intertwined as they are, were a real pain to paint and flock. Otherwise, these were fun figures to work on.
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I think I’m going to have nightmares tonight now after seeing these! 🙂
LOL…sorry about that, John! 🙂
You dealt with the mold lines effectively here, and the colors really pop!
Thanks, Mark!