I have officially bought my first mini

[tay666]

No dioramas for me. I just want to build and paint it
I also have 2 more that I plan to paint with completely different color schemes.
It's so cool, I just have to do it multiple times.
Also eyeing a nice large resin one on Etsy. Pretty sure it is from Lord of the Print.
200mm mini.

[tay666]

Well, the blue tone from Army painter did a nice job of knocking back the white on the spikes.
But it isn't dark enough around the base, so I am going to have to break out the pastels and see how well I can work in tight areas with them.

[kevtk135]

Looks good!
FWIW you can keep adding the blue tone to the base of the spikes until you reach the value you want. Otherwise take a dark blue paint you have and make a glaze to darken it. I just see myself not being able to pastel that little area.

[tay666]

I'll let you know. Pastels are on the docket for this weekend.
Last weekend was limited bench time and all I really got done was more Army Painter tones over several kits.



Oh, and I made what I call the fangs look a bit venomous as well.

[tay666]

Pastels worked out great.
Here was the first pass



Which worked well, but wasn't as dark as I wanted.
So I gave it all a second pass



Much better.
Thinking about a glaze of my dark base color on the very base of the spikes to really tie it all together. Not sure though. Will sleep on it, and see how I feel about it tomorrow.

[bucketfoot-al]

Gorgeously ugly little bugger. Nice job!