Werebat - A Necropolis28 gathering

[Peithetairos]

That test piece wall is spot on!!  Very nice work.

Thank you. The mortar needs to be a bit darker, but overall I am happy with the pattern. All done in Fimo, which should make it very resilient.

I'd missed the game pictures until now: what an exceptional table. Your purple werebat is really striking too.

Indeed, my buddy outdid himself. Fully modular as well.

yep, that bat is tops, it's purple but doesn't feel purple... 

Thanks. Vampires are always purple to me .

Very kewl bat.

Much obliged! Oldie but golide by Julie Guthrie

[Daeothar]

Love the WIP bat, but the wall really takes the cake!

I'm located in the Netherlands, but here too this type of building is ubiquitous, and you really hit the mark there; please keep it up 

Can you share your techniques? Both in building and painting?

[Peithetairos]

Love the WIP bat, but the wall really takes the cake!

I'm located in the Netherlands, but here too this type of building is ubiquitous, and you really hit the mark there; please keep it up 

Can you share your techniques? Both in building and painting?

Certainly. As you can see, the whole thing was sculpted out of a single sheet of Fimo. I used a brick red and then darkened some of the stones and bricks with a chromatic black, mixing red and green. On the windows I used a beige. After this was all dry I added wall spackle and scraped it off again. A word of advise: Before you do this step, varnish the paint. I add some issues with paint rubbing off, but then I used a rather abrasive cotton cloth.

[Peithetairos]

After a long hiatus I started on von Falkov's thralls.

I tried my hand at Vampiric skin and am quite pleased so far. Now I have to decide how to pain the cloth.

[mikedemana]

Fantastic! 

Mike Demana

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Works of art, you might as well be the new Boris or Frazetta.

[Basementboy]

Absolutely beautiful!

[Citizen Sade]

Incredible painting. Fabulous. Well done.

[Peithetairos]

Fantastic! 

Mike Demana

Thank you!

Works of art, you might as well be the new Boris or Frazetta.

Much obliged, I certainly would hope to be that good one day .

Absolutely beautiful!

Appreciated!

Incredible painting. Fabulous. Well done.

Thanks a lot. Motivating words to push on and through!

[Elk101]

Lovely work on the skin tones. What paints did you use, as I was looking for a similar pale, slightly purplish tinged skin tone for my old school Dark Elves?

[Peithetairos]

These days I use a mixture of Vallejo and Kimera colours. I applied a thin base coat of dark violet follows by a pale blue, some beige mixed in as well for the final highlights. Then I went back in with the brush. Darkening the shadows with violet and highlighting with some Vallejo London Grey mixed with a tiny bit of violet. For the final highlights I mixed in some white ink.

To modulate the colours bit I glazed the skin with green and magenta.

Hope that helps.

The idea was to use cold colours only, to have a nice contrast with the magenta. Same idea with this chap here:

[Elk101]

Thanks for the paint description. It is very effective, though I doubt my brushwork would be as good as yours!

[Peithetairos]

You are very welcome. Always happy to share techniques or colour schemes. I think I will post WIPs more frequently, keeps the motivation up. To this end another shot of von Falkov with some steel NMM. I think it works reasonably well.

[Michi]

That is a very appealing approach to vampiric skin tones!  It's much more complex than my own and therefore far more effective.

[snitcythedog]

Ooooh.  I do like that!!