#3 - Futsie

Suffering from 'Future Shock', Futsies have well and truly gone postal, this one appears to have gone off at the deep end while in the kitchen and demonstrates why you should not keep firearms with the cooking utensils.

Futsie

I've copied the catalogue colour scheme from over at Mongoose, my plan was to compare how I'd painted the highlights but the first thing is that I definitely need to take better pictures.  I'm using a light box with a couple of lamps purchased from Amazon but I'm only using the camera on my phone.  The upside is that I can claim that the paint job looks much better in person.

Catalogue entry at Mongoose Publishing

Cameras aside, the main differences are my highlights are not as smooth and my lines are a bit more scrappy, both things I need to practise and given the time taken, I need to speed up.

Here's a view of the other side.

The other Side

I wanted to try a more natural looking blonde hair and used a guide posted on the Dakka Dakka forum, the colours are from the old citadel  range and so I used this Conversion Chart also on Dakka Dakka.  I was fairly pleased with the result but it isn't the quickest technique and I think next time I need to be a bit heavier on the lighter coloured layers, too much of the darkest shade is visible.

A  close up of the face

Overall, I'm happy with the end result, there was a lot more extra little details to pick out and than the previous models and it has been a good confidence builder.

#2 - Owen Krysler, The Judge Child

I was not entirely happy with Sabbat but he was the first crack at this so I wasn't overly disappointed.  Next up is The Judge Child, Owen Krysler, a classic Dredd storyline which introduced the Angel Gang.  More importantly, it's quite a sparse figure making him pretty straight forward.  I copied the 2000AD colour scheme which is really only 2 colours, flesh and cloth making for quite a short painting session.

The Judge Child

I was quite pleased with the result, the skin tone is a bit darker than I'd intended, I stuck with Games Workshop Citadel paints and used Ratskin Flesh and Reikland Fleshshade followed by layers of Bestigor and Ungor Flesh for the highlights.  The robe was a straightforward yellow, so Averland Yellow, a Casandora Yellow wash and then layering up through Yriel Yellow, Flash Gits and then a spot of white.

Two down and 54 to go and my Ghostbusters Paranormal Exterminators have arrived from Crooked Dice.