painting gargoyles?

[S'mon]

At Gencon UK I bought a couple of very nice Gargoyle minis (Dark Heaven, I think) for use in my 'Lost City of Gaxmoor' campaign. I was wondering if anyone has experience/advice in painting gargoyles for use in their own games? I'd like to evoke their stony hide while retaining a feeling of life and diabolic intent. Ideally I'd also like to be able to use them as stand-in demons, devils (cornugons, barbazu etc) without straining disbelief too much. Any thoughts?

-Simon

 

[kengar]

Hmmm, not painted gargoyles before. I would say stick to a dark gray color with black drybrushing (if the texture will handle it). The darker color would made them look all right as gargoyles or demons. Stone is tricker, I find, unless the surface is molded to be fairly rough. You could try a texture paint on the flat parts of its wings and see how that went for accenting, but that's just off the top of my head.

 

[KnowTheToe]

How much experience do you have painting minis?

For basics I would paint it a mid level gray, wash it with black and then dry brush with a light grey.

It will be hard to double them as demons, but you could paint one closer to a demon and one a straight gargoyle.

Go to http://www.coolminiornot.com and do a search under gargoyles and you will find a few inspiring pics.

 

[S'mon]

Hmmm, not painted gargoyles before. I would say stick to a dark gray color with black drybrushing (if the texture will handle it). The darker color would made them look all right as gargoyles or demons. Stone is tricker, I find, unless the surface is molded to be fairly rough. You could try a texture paint on the flat parts of its wings and see how that went for accenting, but that's just off the top of my head.

The gargoyles have very strong/exaggerated muscle definition, their skin looks more leathery than stony on the unpainted minis. Dry brushing black over grey? I haven't heard of such a thing previously, I'd have thought the drybrushing would be white or lighter grey?

 

[S'mon]

How much experience do you have painting minis?

For basics I would paint it a mid level gray, wash it with black and then dry brush with a light grey.

It will be hard to double them as demons, but you could paint one closer to a demon and one a straight gargoyle.

Go to http://www.coolminiornot.com and do a search under gargoyles and you will find a few inspiring pics.

You can get an idea of my recent painting standard by looking at the better-painted figs on the links in the other thread - some of them are many years old so they're a bit cruder (I'm 29, stopped painting for about 10 years 1992-2002!)

Grey/black wash/highlight light grey would be my basic idea, as my friend Craig/Upper_Krust pointed out to me on inspecting my figs, drybrushing flesh doesn't work as it doesn't have the texture for it, and the gargoyles have pretty much flesh-like hide by the look of it - drybrushing might work well on their wings, though.

I'd like to keep them pretty much as a pair, rather than paint differently, as it gives a lot more flexibility in using both together - the PCs are ca 8th level now so a single gargoyle isn't a big threat anymore.

 

[S'mon]

Go to http://www.coolminiornot.com and do a search under gargoyles and you will find a few inspiring pics.

Didn't have any luck there, but thanks anyway.