Deepkin Undercover

Contrast and speedpaint tonight.  I am hoping to do some highlighting tomorrow, but in my mind I have written off this miniature, and I do not like it.  Well, the miniature is fine, I do not like how I painted it, maybe more specifically the colour choices are both busy, but also lacking in depth.

Man, this is really dragging.  At this rate it could be another week before I finish, and I am leaving town for almost a week on Sunday.  I would love to get this guy done before I leave. Applied some metallics, some Vallejo Dark Sand on the on the seating structure, and slapped a bit of white here and there for future slapchopping.

Well, back on the shark train tonight.  I did a wash of Contrast Space Wolves Grey mixed 1:1 with Speedpaint medium over all the shark skin.  It mostly worked how I wanted to, but I missed few pools, and a couple of bizarre splotches.  Nature is weird is what I will say if someone asks. I decided to do the seating contraption as some sort of whale bone, which I saw in a picture somehwhere, so starting by giving it a white coating. I also did the Topaz Skin/ Reikland Flesh shade work on the skin of the riders.

 Not a lot done this weekend.  I could probably call this terrain piece tabletop ready, although it is far from being done.  I need to apply some verdigris, and paint the various fish, bottles, barnacles, and shells.  The overall paint job is a bit dull.  After washing the whole thing, I drybrushed it with a 1:1 mix of Tokai Grey and Brigadine Brown from Army Painter.  I did another lighter highlight with more of the grey, but really it barely registers.   After that it was Balthasar Gold from Citadel.  I am not sure if the Sigmar sculpture on the front is supposed to be wood or metal, but now it is metal.  I then tried AP Strong Tone for the first time.  It was not what I expected, and is very thick, with a slow drying time, so you could sort of move the shadows around a bit.  I liked it, and will use it again I am sure.

I wasn't feeling it for the old sharkie boy this evening, so I went back to my terrain piece.  Now that it was all brown, I knew I need to give it a black wash, but the thought of the cost involved was putting me off.  So I found a super cheap black wash recipe from Black Magic Craft, which in turn led me to an improved version he had done.  As it turns out, I had all of the required ingredients.  Blending Medium, Flow-aid, black ink and even water!  If I had to buy this, it would not have been a cheap wash, but as the monery was already spent, it felt free. Insert exciting picture of washed boat half that looks slightly darker than the other half.  This is a slow job, and the flow-aid was put in a bit heavy I suspect, as I am getting a lot of bubbles. I will give this a drybrush afterwards, to bring back some highlights, and knock back the shine.

Ok, the title might be just for the clicks.  I can always paint over this, so fail is maybe a bit much, but I ended up trying to put Hardened Leather Speedpaint mixed 2:1 with Medium on top of the PJs Wraithbone.  The result was expected, but not desired.  It look exactly as patchy as I had feared, and it dried so fast I really couldn't work with it. I am not enjoying painting this shark at all.  Smooth surfaces, but fiddly, so blending didn't seem like the best approach.  I will probably just eat the loss on this one, and try a different approach on the second shark. I also highlighted the armour.