We're getting back onto our typical schedule, which generally leaves me 2 hours in the evening to do hobby-related stuff. And just so you don't think I neglect other chores around the house, I do those during my lunch break, after I get home, and on weekends. Mostly. A bit of that is prepping things so the robots can clean but I really do need to take a few hours this weekend and do some more cleaning. Not a problem.
My undead army mooks I started last night are coming along nicely. I'm kind of making up the color scheme as I go and even though I don't expect to add to this army I'm writing down the colors so I don't have issues later if I change my mind. As I've been known to do.
The 'glowing green eyes' idea turned into putting a deep red-brown wash around the eyeballs (in the eye sockets), then painting the eyeballs with a dark green and then putting a dot of the obnoxiously bright green on top of that. Works quite well, I think. I really do like that obnoxious bright green set. Too bad they discontinued it. I understand because it's a rather limited use color but it's so useful at times.
I went with one of my preferred methods of painting the leather that works great but creeps me out. On the bad guys I've started using the humanoid skin tones for the leathers. As in, "Tanned Skin" as a leather color. So these guys not only have that one but the "Humanoid Skin" as well. The effect is great, the idea of doing it creeps me out. Essentially I've clothed them in the skins of their enemies. I know that's not much different from dragon skin armor but still ...
I've got the headwrap/hat thing and the sword to finish up. I used the tanned skin on the hilt and I put the deep red-brown on the hilt basket but I think I'm going to paint over it with the same color as the headwrap/hat. Otherwise I'm adding another color into the mix. Yes, I did paint the insides of the mouths with the deep red-brown but that's just a single color. The hilt basket is going to take shading and highlighting. So it's going to match the other area that's getting the same treatment.
I'm tempted to try doing a touch of freehand on the hilt basket since it kind of cries out for it but I'm not that good and I wonder if they would waste the better weapons on the mooks. Oh - I've also decided not to try making the weapons weathered and/or old. They're going to be nice, servicable weapons. You've gotta keep the undead busy when they're not in battle. It's not like they hit the bars on shore leave.
Then I do the lining and call them painted. Lining finishes a figure. It consists of painting a darker line where two surfaces meet or where you want to emphasize a change, like between fingers. Some people line the figure then paint, leaving a slight line between the colors. I've always painted first and then added the lines. I guess my method is more 'dangerous' since there's more of a chance of getting liner where you don't want it but it's the way I like to do it. For these guys I'm doing a mix of brown and green liner. Typically I would just use brown but there's a lot of green tones in there. Technically I could toss red into the brown for contrast but I'm not trying to make the lines stand out. I want them to blend in.
I won't base them until the whole army is done. I have an idea using sand, driftwood and seaweed. Very appropriate for undead pirates, I think.
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