Aug 2, 2025
Rex's undercoat layer is done. It's not white-white, kind of an off-white, so that'll be interesting to work with.
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Rex's undercoat layer is done. It's not white-white, kind of an off-white, so that'll be interesting to work with.
Clone-A-Saurus Triceraptops WIP
I want to say the model of the Triceratops itself is about... 99% done.
Annoyingly, this skin pattern on the toy does not work brilliantly with Contrast paints. When the model is primed, it's fine, but the skin is so lumpy and the gaps between the scales is so pronounced that there are bits of the undercoat coming through on the blue and the green. I really should have gone with my original idea of undercoating with Wraithbone White then layering on with Army Painter Army Green and work from that. Ah well, it's only the one model. Live and learn.
I do like the grey for the horns and beak, which counterpoints the green and blue of the body, along with the black and red of the frill display.
Need to give his eyes a paint, which I'm debating whether to go with regular round pupils or give them the horizontal rectangular pupils that I've seen in some paleomedia for ceratopsians. Then I'll give his body a shade just to bring the colours down a tad, though I'll give the frills a red shade or maybe another layer just to bring their colours UP, make it more of a vibrant display.
Then I'll be onto the base, and then after that; Spinosaurus. And I want to try something different with that model.
Clone-A-Saurus WIPs. Again.
Contrast layers on the Triceratops done, mainly with big bit of green skin, the blue stripes on the back and the red and black frill display. The former two are inspired by the Prehistoric Planet Triceratops while the frill is inspired by the original Walking With Dinosaurs Torosaurus (still a ceratopsian, it counts). It does need the bits filled in and given a wash to darken it down just a bit since I feel it's a might too bright.
Next up is a mercenary working for one of the factions in-game, BioGen (Biological Genetic Technologies). He represents a Tracker, using the in-game profiles, hence the shotgun. I did use Ultramrines Blue contrast for his trousers since I thought that would be a good colour of jeans, but the end result is a bit... too washed out for my liking, so I might paint his trousers the regular war.
Clone-A-Saurus T-Rex
The Tyrannosaurus Rex, the apex predator of Petrel's Paradise. With a cosmopolitan range that spans virtually the entirety of the island, all mercenary teams will undoubtedly meet with this fierce predator. Only a steely nerve, quick reflexes and good chance will protect you from this prehistoric beast. And that's if you're lucky enough to only run into one...
I got the Rex done before I had to leave for work, and I'm so happy about that. I still seems to suffer from my seeming inability to fully cover a model's base in sand to cover all the gaps, though I've got some Army Painter Brown Battleground basing material which I might use to fill the gaps, since earth isn't of a uniform quality.
But a big base means a lot of room to put extra foliage and stuff on it, so it's a mix of flock, resin bits, model moss/lichen and some laser cut plants too.
And a size comparison between the Rex and a figure made from Anvil Industry bits. The Rex's pose skews it a bit, but I would still say it's in the right range for 28mm scale models.
Might do a photoshoot at later date using my light box and lamps to get a better view of it.
And of course, I need to show how it started as a comparison.
WIP Estalians (again)
It fucking took me enough tries, but here's the state of my Estalian pikeblock. Picking out the red and yellow fabric first so I can get the proper placement of them before I go onto the other colours in the clothing.
I'll need more Averland Sunset.
Altdorf Imperial Ogres WIP
I really need to go back to using my digital camera for photographing my models since the phone camera never does it justice.
Main layers on the cloth are done, with the highlights being next. I've also done all the armour bits with Iron Warriors metallic, while the skin is done with Rakarth Flesh. I like the idea of the Ogres having a skin tone that's slightly blue or green, setting them apart from the general skintones of the men of the Old World and the Dwarfs, while also not tipping them towards the Orcs in skintone either.
I do hope that the Imperial Ogres can take the weapon choices I gave these guys, because that would be really fun.
I look forward to seeing these guys fully painted alongside regiments of Altdorf State Troopers.
WIP photos of my Estalian officer of pike. Just to mainly get the tone and style of the Estalians as I'm going to paint them. Might only do this style of colour, with the alternating red and yellow on officers, and have the lower ranked soldiers have more simpler colours schemes.
His armour is going to be a nice clean steel with the gold additions on it. Still not sure on what colour to do his plume.
BEHOLD!
My spray stick!
And my very messy room behind it. But that held all 20 Empire Halberdiers on it and I got all of them primed and ready for painting.