Horns and claws and concretions

It's been a long time... lots of other things to do.

Anyway, back to our slo-mo dragon, and today we are looking at claws and -you've read the title.
These had already been painted in a light grey tone, but it was unsuitable for the bizarre concretion that are scattered over the dragon's skin.

A touch of black helped make a clear delimitation:

Then for some light green ('gretchin green') to link the black colour with the light grey. The result is far from pretty, but it's all part of the plan.

Now the whole thing is covered with a higly diluted layer of crème colour ('ushabti bone'), which, when dry, is enriched with the other tones underneath.

Here the dilution of paint is key, but it won't work properly on the concretions. These are given a 'dry brush', which could be described as the opposite of the dilution technique.

I'm not finished with these horns and claws and concretions, but it was hard time I post something on this blog. Hopefully it won't be long before the next bit.

Lazy post

This runner obviously won his race.

The "Police line" is really easy to make: just type the text with a word processor,  print it, and then colour it with a highlighter. It's quite useful on bases.

zombies

Just to keep you waiting: three zombies.

The obvious problem with a "monster box" such as Zombicide is that you're bound to get paint dozens of identical figures. This is not a big problem with, say, napoleonic armies, with uniformed-clad soldiers marching in line, but it becomes one for zombie hordes composed of erratic individuals.

What we see in this photograph is that the base can become a good differentiator between identical figures. Torn bits of coffee stirrers, a washed-out newspaper, or coke can can make a big difference.
The newspaper and soda can are ideas directly taken from this French blog - you may print page 55 of the pdf document: it is covered with scaled newspapers, "caution" signs, McDonald's ads, US dollar banknotes, etc. all things useful to depict an apocalyptic pavement.

a study in red

I haven't been working a lot on the dragon lately.

A long, risky and uninspiring task : painting crème-coloured stripes all over the skin...
(on the shoulders and arms, I paint them so as to imitate muscle fibres)

Then, cover the whole thing in red.

As a result, the dragon turns a fiery red, with nice, discreet highlights. So discreet in fact that they hardly appear on the photo.

The red colour is a wild creature, quite hard to tame. This is a method, though not my favourite.