And yet more Pirates!

15 Monday Jun 2015

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Happy Monday chaps and chapesses, another quick post today – it has been quiet week on the hobby front, (away for a couple of days last week, and working all weekend), but I did manage to rattle out a couple more pirates. Mr. Purple Hair got the dark skin tone using the recipe I mentioned last time, and I experimented with Mr. Gym Queen to try and get a more Mediterranean/North African look. I went with Bugmans Glow up to Cadian, and then a light wash with Agrax to tone it all down and help to blend it all together before going to town with the tattoos. He’s paler than the other guy, but he came out a bit darker than I was aiming for… that said, I’m quite happy with how he looks:

And here’s the whole motley crew so far… (still looking for ideas for a name dudes!):

I also got started on another BadWolf… meet Sten, the Wolfguard Sergeant:

I’ll progress this guy over the course of the week, and then I have something pretty cool in mind to try after that. I don’t want to give too much away at the moment, but it’ll be a real oldschool/newschool fusion as I try to bridge my current craving for the Oldhammer and the Blanchesque…

More Rogue Trader Pirates

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by Alex in OldHammer

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Oldhammer, Rogue Trader

Happy Tuesday folks, a very quick one today. I got another couple of Pirates completed over the last two evenings – I’d usually wait until I had a few more done before posting, but these guys are significant for me, as this is the first time I have tried painting non-caucasian skin. I wanted to achieve a deep African skin tone, and strangely, I was quite nervous about trying this from a technical perspective… it’s not like GeeDub have a helpfully named range of paint for darker skin or anything useful like that, so I just kind of experimented with different tones until I arrived at something that looked right, (at least to my eye):

For those interested, I went with Dryad Bark, Agrax Earthshade wash, and then Cathan Brown up to Bugman’s Glow. I think I’m happy with it, but what do you guys think? I’d certainly be interested in any recipes for different skin tones that you folks may have!

Another point of interest is the guy on the right – his leg had me scratching my head… I just couldn’t make out if it was supposed to be biological or mechanical! A quick check on some old flyers with the full range painted up confirmed the latter, which makes more sense and goes nicely with his bionic arm… whether his bionics are xenos in origin is open to speculation! He is going to be at least a champion/sergeant level character, with bonuses for his bionics in RT, (or a power glove in 40k).

That’s all for now dudes, have a good week :-)