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Crooooak! - Frog Monsters - Part 2

Word of the day:
Ranidaphobia - the fear of frogs. 

- Wikipedia


Welcome back as we escape the event horizon here on The Art of Caesura!

Whatever am I talking about? Well last week we went back in time to a post from 5 years ago that I had completely forgotten about! I had half painted the minis, and taken and edited the photos of them, but never finished them nor wrote the post. Well, until now! 

Now, we're back in present day and I'm trying to complete these 20 little buggers! As I mentioned last week, I was very tempted to just start over with the airbrush and give them a vibrant, sickly green from above and a deep violet from below and then paint in the details. I actually set my airbrush station up to do just this, but, with the first frog monster in hand, I aborted, deciding instead to stick to my original vision and Contrast the hell out of these guys!


Above and below you can see the state in which these guys have been sitting for the last 5 years.


So I divided them into their various roles (each pose has different rules in the game ("Armed", "Rampaging" etc.) with their varying skin tones, I wanted to unify each pose with the same secondary colours. I chose Leviadon Blue for the Rampaging Frog Monsters...




...Jeans and an off-white shirt (Space Wolves Grey and Skeleton Horde, with Wyldwood for the belt) for the zombie-walkers...






...Flesh Tearers Red for the rags, Snakebite Leather for the rope and Wyldwood for the staves of the Armed Frog Monsters. Though I now realize that this was in error. This would have been the perfect opportunity to paint the rags of these guys purple as their polearms more closely resemble Donatello's bō. I had even sneakily painted the belly of one of these guys with Skeleton Horde to accentuate the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtal look. C'est la vie. 





Finally, for the spitting (?Venomous) Frog Monsters, I painted their rags Shyish Purple and their tongues Aethermatic Blue highlighted with Gauss Blaster. 






I gave their faces a bit of a drybrush of Scorpion Green and then Wraithbone, but this didn't really add much. 

I then picked out the details on these guys: the metalic belt buckles and hooks and polished off all 20 of their bases. I finished them off by giving them all a spray of Matte varnish - as much to unify the finish (contrast paint can be a little shiny in the recesses when applied thickly) as to protect the models. 




And that was it! Great to get a post that was 5 years in the making out into the world!

Thank you, as always, for joining me! I'll see you next week on The Art of Caesura!


Listening: Take On Me - Aha
Watching: 5 Star Chef - Netflix


Next Week:

Birthday break...

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