Reaper Miniatures' Eye Beast - 77043

I started this miniature on Sunday and it was pretty close to finished - thanks to a snow day in northern Virginia (15" of the white stuff), I was able to finish him up this evening.

I love this miniature - it's a great sculpt by Julie Guthrie this is the Bones version that came with my Kickstarter - I also have the metal version (product no. 2712) which is sitting in my to paint pile.  If you're going to paint and play, then the Bones version is an incredible value - $3.79 versus $14.99 for metal. 

I actually went to the color wheel for this one - the triad is red-violet/blue-green/yellow-orange.  The red-violet is the body; the blue-green is the inside of the mouth and gums; the yellow-orange is the tongue and eyes.

Painting instructions for Eye Beast:

Step 1: Undercoat model with black paint (not primer - it will eat into the plastic and cause tackiness)

Step 2: Use Imperial Purple as basecoat on the body and tentacles

Step 3: Drybrush Liche Purple liberally on the body and tentacles

Step 4: Drybrush Warlock Purple moderately on the body and tentacles

Step 5: Drybrush Tentacle Pink as highlights on the body and tentacles

Step 6: Use Red Gore as the basecoat on all the little eyes and ends of tentacles

Step 7: Use Sunburst Yellow and fill in the main portion of each of the little eyes and ends of tentacles

Step 8: Use Skull White to run a white strip (line) over the middle of the little eyes and ends of tentacles

(the above step gives it a "glow" like laser - kind of like the alien deathrays in HG Wells War of the Worlds)

Step 9: Use Scaly Green inside mouth and on gums as basecoat

Step 10: Use Jade Green as gum highlights

Step 11: Use Blood Red on tongue as basecoat

Step 12: Use Blazing Orange on tongue

Step 13: Use Fiery Orange on tongue as highlights

Step 14: Use Skull White on teeth and center eye

Step 15: Use wash of Snakebite Leather on teeth pushing into the in-betweens and the gums

Step 16: Use really close to a wash of Golden Yellow on the left and right side of the center eye

Step 17: Use Fiery Orange in a three pronged dagger towards middle of center eye

Step 18: Use Blazing Orange to deepen three pronged dagger towards middle of center eye

Step 19: Use Chaos Black to paint in an elongated oval vertically in middle of center eye

Step 20: Drybrush Codex Grey on base

Step 21: Drybrush Fortress Grey on base

Step 22: Drybrush Skull White on base as highlights

Step 23: Use Gunmetal on sword

Step 24: Use Bright Bronze on handle of sword

Kickstarter paint total: 49 + 1 Eye Beast = 50

Reaper Miniature's Zombies - 77014

I painted these two zombies from the Kickstarter while watching the second Resident Evil movie (Apocalypse) on Netflix - again, Resident Evil provides the perfect movie for this painting session!

Again, the value of the Bones figures is pretty awesome - $4.49 for a pack of three bones (the Kickstarter only came with two).  The metal figure is in their Warlord line as 14410 and will set you back $4.99 a piece.

I painted these two a bit different than the other set of zombies from the Kickstarter - I started these with a base of Bestial Brown.  I wasn't really happy with the result as it was too brown and I ended up giving the models a wash of Desert Yellow to add some color and that worked out rather well.

Painting instructions for Zombies:

Step 01: Undercoat model with black paint (not primer - it will eat into the plastic and cause tackiness)
Step 02: Paint all flesh with Bestial Brown
Step 03: Drybrush all flesh with Rotting Flesh
Step 04: Drybrush highlights on flesh with Pallid Flesh
Step 05: Wash all flesh with Desert Yellow
Step 06: Use Scorched Brown as basecoat on tattered pants
Step 07: Use Snakebite Leather on tattered pants
Step 08: Use Bubonic Brown as highlights on tattered pants
Step 09: Use Scorched Brown as basecoat on hair
Step 10: Drybrush highlights on hair with Bestial Brown
Step 11: Drybrush Codex Grey on base
Step 12: Drybrush Fortress Grey on base
Step 13: Drybrush Skull White on base

Kickstarter paint total: 47 + 2 Zombies = 49