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Author Topic: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)  (Read 2087 times)

Offline Joek

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A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« on: March 13, 2012, 12:21:20 PM »
Point blank I think the Otherworld skeletons are the best ones out there. They are so much in the spirit of Jason and the Argonauts it's untrue! It was also a great fun thing to paint :) . Here you go...





Offline generulpoleaxe

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2012, 04:17:22 PM »
Love it :)  great use of colour man.

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2012, 06:24:25 PM »
Otherworld rocks! And you certainly did that mini justice. Great piece!
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Offline Faber

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2012, 06:39:41 PM »
Love it :)  great use of colour man.

ditto! really nice paintjob Joek. The sword is wonderful. How did you paint it? :)

Offline Joek

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2012, 09:41:09 PM »
ditto! really nice paintjob Joek. The sword is wonderful. How did you paint it? :)

Cheers :) . With regards to the sword, I don't have a specific recipe, but it went something along the lines of:

Base: Scorched brown/Dwarf bronze
Shade: Brown wash

then back to the original mix
Purple wash
Then start gradually using a bronze highlight with increasingly more amounts of a silver in there.
(I tend to splash on a very thin purple glaze after each highlight to keep things smoothish)
The oxidised effect was simply a turquoise.dark green wash (very thin) liberally applied and then just highlighting that up a bit with increasing amounts of white.
The only other thing I did was a minute drybrush of a pure gold colour near the hilt - just added a bit of variety on the thing.

That sounds rather complex and overlong, but really it doesn't take much time I promise :)

Offline Andym

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2012, 10:34:55 PM »
Cool!

Offline Talysman

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2012, 11:55:12 PM »
Nicely done :)

Offline aggro84

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2012, 01:23:34 AM »
Really nice paint job!  :-*
The colors and highlights are amazing.

And yes... Otherworld makes really nice skeleton minis.  :)

Offline Mason

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2012, 06:23:59 AM »
I can only echo what others have said;
Your use of colours have really added to, what could have been a very plain (colour-wise) miniature.

Lovely!
 :-*

Offline Kitsune

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2012, 08:37:10 AM »
Thats really nicely done bonework. Think I'll have to have a look at the otherworld site.

Offline ZuluPaul

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2012, 08:46:56 AM »
That is one fine paint job on a great looking skellie!!

Offline DeafNala

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2012, 09:09:22 AM »
That is a VERY NICELY DONE skeleton with, as you said, a decidedly Harryhausen look to him/her.
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Offline Joek

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2012, 09:35:34 AM »
Thanks guys :)


Offline Faber

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Re: A wee Otherworld Skeleton :)
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2012, 10:02:41 AM »
And thanks for the colour tip :)

 

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