Saturday 14 November 2015

A Tale of Four Oldhammer Gamers: giant spider painted

In my last post I assembled this brute and applied a small amount of greenstuff to mould the legs into a striking pose and fashion a pair of mandibles. I've now finished painting it:


I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out, particularly given that when I started to paint it it felt like it was all going wrong. One of the things that's really helped to turn it around is a good bit of drybrushing.

I'll be basing it at some point of course, but I haven't settle on a base design yet so I'll leave this for the time being.

8 comments:

  1. She's beautiful. The patterns you gave her work really well... very creepy. Reminds me of an ex-girlfriend.

    You mentioned feeling like "it was all going wrong" near the beginning. I know that feeling very well - it happens to me all the time when I'm painting. About 50% of the time, it really is all going wrong, and a do-over is in the works. But the other 50% is fascinating... it looks like shit part way through, and then just comes together beautifully. It's like magic. I'm glad you caught some of that magic here.


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  2. Agreed that is a striking pose and paint job. Creepily cool. Well done Steve. ;)

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  3. Nice! Great conversion for the better - excellent pose!
    /Hans

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  4. Great pose and very efficient coloring choice.
    Nico

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  5. Nice work - with all that hair I could see that drybrushing would work well.

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  6. This is superb! Can't wait to see it based and some shots of the nefarious beauty from the side.

    Cheers
    Martin

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  7. One of the best improvements by converting the good old spider, congrats Steve!

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