Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

I’m going along another detour, painting in a different scale. Any guesses as to what it might be?

I'm kinda assuming Halloween prop, but it also looks like it might be a horror-themed cake.

Clint_L said:

I'm kinda assuming Halloween prop, but it also looks like it might be a horror-themed cake.

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Cake wasn’t on my bingo card, but I like the way you think. I went to one of the few rail road hobby shops here in Arkansas amd came across a Mothman model kit made by Pegasus Models. I could not resist.

The kit came out in July, but I’ve managed to find a few people online who have painted theirs. Everyone paints this guy so dark! I’m thinking of going nice and bright: Maybe pattern this guy off a Luna moth which have bright geeen wings and a white body/. It’s going to take some work to give it a white furry texture though.

Fun Fact: I once drove to Point Pleasant, WV, home of the Mothman, to do Rocky Horror... I drove over the actual bridge from the urban legend on my way to the local Goodwill with a local whose uncle had been on the bridge when it collapsed.

Working on the wings and I wish I did a better job making them symmetrical.

This is a rare shot of my miniatures out in the wild enjoying some play time.

Here is the final result of painting the figures for Tang Garden.

The box is the big box that holds everything. The Base set takes 2 trays, the expansion Seasons takes 3, and the other 2 expansions get half a tray each.

A Cthulhu bust I picked up at Gamehole Con. I’m at that point where I’m trying to decide whether I should keep pushing or decide I’m essentially finished.

I went on a slap chop spree back when I was painting my Fallout Wasteland Warfare figures. Being immensely dissatisfied with those figures, I pretty much swore off slap chop, but with this Cthulhu bust I decided I'd give it another shot. One of the reasons I swore off slap chop was because I thought it'd make me a lazy painter, and in a way, it did, but is that the technique's fault? In art circles, it's known as grisaille, and if it's good enough for European masters who am I to refute it? Like any technique, it's lazy when the artist is lazy.



What I've found is slap chop isn't a bad way to practice blending colors, it's a good way to understand how highlights work, and it gives you a working understanding of layering. For this particular model, I primed in black, zenithal highlighted in gray, and then I dry brushed a nice, bright white a few times. After I slap chopped it, I again dry brushed it in fairly lightly with a bright white using a makeup brush. Then I slap chopped it again using more or less the same colors. I'm pretty happy with the results.