Cthulhu project in 1/35

[Hypoponera]

Ah, makes sense.

[Freddy]

Altar of Cthulhu (with the altar piece exchangeable, it will also double as a Warhammer Chaos altar)

[Hypoponera]

Very cool!
Are the green and yellow pieces beads?
Where did the Cthulhu statue come from?
I like the multipurpose of the piece. I would have to protect it though. My kids all play 40K. It would be "borrowed" and never returned.

[Freddy]

Very cool!
Are the green and yellow pieces beads?
Where did the Cthulhu statue come from?
I like the multipurpose of the piece. I would have to protect it though. My kids all play 40K. It would be "borrowed" and never returned.

Thank you!
The Cthulhu statue (and the altar piece) is my sculpt from FIMO. Old, dry FIMO unusable for figures is still good for statues.
Yes, the urns/jugs are from wooden beads, a great idea I stole from Ana Polanscaks blog.

[Hypoponera]

Thank you!
The Cthulhu statue (and the altar piece) is my sculpt from FIMO. Old, dry FIMO unusable for figures is still good for statues.
Yes, the urns/jugs are from wooden beads, a great idea I stole from Ana Polanscaks blog.

I may have to raid my wife's craft stocks. She makes a lot of rosaries and has a bin of oddball beads I can go through. Surely she won't miss a few...

FIMO? I may have to try my hand at making a statue now.

Thanks for the new ideas to play with!

[Freddy]

The big guy himself, the figure is from that boardgame, I painted it with oils.

[Little Odo]

Wow!  That is an awesome paint job on a fantastic miniature.

[Freddy]

Wow!  That is an awesome paint job on a fantastic miniature.

Thank you, I was really looking forward to paint this one, and the colour scheme turned out really great. I did not just use the regular shading tones for green, but went wild with blues and purple too.

[Anatoli]

Excellent work on cthulhu.

Did you use anything to mig the oils to make drying time faster? I have a paint drying accelarator liquid but have not tried it out yet. I mainly stick to oil washes thinned down with mineral spirits as they have a very fast drying time. I am too impatient to wait weeks for a proper oil coat to dry 

[Freddy]

Excellent work on cthulhu.

Did you use anything to mig the oils to make drying time faster? I have a paint drying accelarator liquid but have not tried it out yet. I mainly stick to oil washes thinned down with mineral spirits as they have a very fast drying time. I am too impatient to wait weeks for a proper oil coat to dry 

Thank you!

I use artist tupertine to thin the artist oil, this supposed to be pure real tupertine. White spirit most modellers use migh result in a faster drying, but I am afraid of these thinners as they often change their ingredients, even the same product could be different based on the country or production time. With tupertine the drying time is between 2-3 days to several weeks, usually closer to the former one unless you use thick layers without thinning*. It is OK to me, it is really comfortable that you do not have to finish the painting in one instance, you can continue next day. The downside is that tupertine is pretty agressive, if it collects into drops it ruins the below acrylic layer.

*Artist oil on itself is thinned with lanoline, now with this drying time is really slow. If you use lanoline itself as a thinner too, drying might take into the several months range- a bug or a feature, you decide

[Anatoli]

Thanks for the info Freddy!

[Hypoponera]

That is awesome!!
I have never tried artist oils. I am not even good with acrylics. I have always used enamels. Guess it is time to check out those artist oils!

By the way, I have this Reaper Cthulhu that needs to be painted...

[Freddy]

That is awesome!!
I have never tried artist oils. I am not even good with acrylics. I have always used enamels. Guess it is time to check out those artist oils!

By the way, I have this Reaper Cthulhu that needs to be painted...

Thank you!
There are several oil techniques, the ,,working into thick base layer" technique is a bit harder, but I used the "thin base layer+wait a few minutes+drybrush the rest onto it" technique which should not be hard for those familiar with other paint types. Be careful about the base colour though as oils are usually more transparent then acrylics but this always depends on the paint, manufacturers usually give information about the opaqueness, choose the one that suits your project.

[Freddy]

The altar completed.

[Digits]

I love the use of th3 paint brush handles! ?.nice altar!