Colette Du Bois and the Showgirls

[Meat Puppet]

I used colors I still have from the old line of GW paints, although the brand doesn't really matter, as long as it's varying shades of red and brown.

The colors I used were Blood Red, Gore Red, Scab Red and Scorched Earth, so basically three different shades of red and a dark reddish brown.

I used a glaze medium to thin the paint a bit, so it's not thick and chunky.

Good for soup, less good for paint.

I had all the colors out on my pallet at the same time so I could go from one to the other immediately. I also used a pretty simple technique that someone else showed me, which is taking a brush with stiff bristles, like for drybrushing, and putting my thumb over the bristles as if I were trying to light a Bic lighter, spattering the paint onto the figure. I tried this first on just paper so I could practice it a bit before trying it on the mini, which I'm so glad I did. Once I got the feel for it, I did it on the mini. Then I went back with my brush and made some more droplets, smears and arterial sprays.

[Gruesome]

I made the comment to Tekdekay last week after seeing the Colette in person that the thing that annoys me most about Meat Puppet's painting is that the CLOSER I look at it the BETTER it looks because you see even MORE great detail rather than flaws.

[Meat Puppet]

Thanks Gruesome!

The rest of the girls are about 2/3 done and I even slapped some paint on the Doves the other day.

The Coryphee are still bare metal and the arms aren't even attached yet, so plenty of work to do yet.

[Orki]

My GF has the Collette crew, so i'll have to show her these later.

Very nice work, Meat Puppet.

[sassylady]

She's gorgeous! Wish I had confidence to try something like that! Very different!