These creatures turned out great.  You certainly did a wonderful job painting them.  

keavdog

Be cool to see them with chain leashes held by some equally scary war lord type dude. Imagination running wild

I now have visions of a Frank Frazettaesque diorama.  Might be something in the future.

They are awesome!  Be cool to see them with chain leashes held by some equally scary war lord type dude.  Imagination running wild

Awesome!! As long as I don't find them under my bed

PhoenixG

 

 

Gamera

Back when I played in a SW RPG we ended up using Dungeons and Dragons monsters since it's all we had!

 

 

 

Ah yes, Star Wars the RPG.   It's possible I had some experience with that.

 

Oh cool, I've got a couple of the WEG manuals. Oddly I've never played it, we only played the WotC version. 

I think I like the WEG version better though. 

Great paint job!

These are known as Nexu and they were the creatures from the arena battle in attack of the clones. 

Gamera

Back when I played in a SW RPG we ended up using Dungeons and Dragons monsters since it's all we had!

Ah yes, Star Wars the RPG.   It's possible I had some experience with that.

Oh those are awesome!!! Great paint work! 

I was thinking they reminded me of some of the critters from 'Knights of the Old Republic'. 

Back when I played in a SW RPG we ended up using Dungeons and Dragons monsters since it's all we had! 

Cool. Yeah nice paint work.

These guys came as a pair.  The initial plan was to paint them in a similar fashion but after doing the first one I thought it woudl be neat to do the second one as if it was from a different biosphere.  Decide to make the second one closer to earth tones and leverage all the things I learned from doing the first one.

As mentioned in the first post I started with a rust wash on the spines, head, shoulders, and the top of the legs.   Then wiped off the majority of the wash from the head, shoulders and legs.

To create a different modulation of color I then went over the everything but the spines in a thinned purple.

It looks odd but most of that was then wiped off with a damp cotton swab like was done before with the rust.

Then covered the entire creature with a thinned coat of buff followed by flesh ending with a very light brown wash to bring out the depth in the fur and spines.

It contrasted nicely with the orange and purple creating a darker look to the fur at the top and muted the rust.

Then went back over the fur and head with a lcoat of light rust wash.

This really made the fur and spines pop. 

Wanting to keep with the differing ecosystem idea I painted they eyes gold and carefully lined them with thinned red to create some contrast in the eye sockets. 

Looking at pictures of lions mouths I decided this one should have a fleshier pink tone made the claws a slightly off white.  Finishd it off with carefully dry brushing highlights in lemon yellow.

Some revenge photo bombing going on.

Finally did the same flat coat with satin for the spines and now have a finishe pair of creatures that while the same species, can see they definitely live in different areas.

Had lots of fun painting the pair and learned quite a bit in the process.  Really like the contrast of the two styles. 

The white tissue paper is there to help ensure the proper white balance was maintained when photographing.

knox

Your creatures look great.  The company “Wizkids” has a lot of what Ikar was describing. I’m sorry that I don’t know how to hotlink stuff. Loving your pictures. Thanks. 

 

Knox,

Thanks for the recommendation and compliment!

Heard of Wizkids way back in the early 2000's with their prepainted line of clix miniatures.  Sounds like it's time to check them out again. :)

Wasn't there one of those things in Episode II, Attack of the Clones?

In any case, very nice paint work! 

Ha!  Hes cool.  Looks like mean little dudes.  Fun project.  

Your creatures look great.  The company “Wizkids” has a lot of what Ikar was describing. I’m sorry that I don’t know how to hotlink stuff. Loving your pictures. Thanks. 

ikar01

There's a company that makes fantasy figures that come pre primed.

You wouldn't happen to have their name or a link to their site handy?  My stash isn't drained but I like to keep an eye open for inventive and well detailed models/miniatures.

Painting this figure was pretty much all firsts for me.  Most everything else I had done prior were essentially three tone blocks of color.  This was a real stretch for me to do.

Not bad, not bad at all.  I have a couple that I should work on between projects.  There's a company that makes fantasy figures that come pre primed.  All you have to do is open the package and start.  They have giants, dragons, deamons, and if you pickd a aquatic figure most of the time they include a translucent water base or stand.