Thank you for the tips Sithious, I agree sometimes the eyes can be difficult to make look ok especially when the model's eyes are so small as is on the elves.
Here are some progress photos of today's work on the 10 remaining Mirkwood Rangers, and also in the last photo of all 20 of them as I've decided to improve the last batch by adding some more shading and also doing the faces and eyes.
The elves have been sitting like this on a shelf next to my desk for a good few weeks now, looking all green and waiting to be painted. To start off the elves were all sprayed a basecoat of green.
This time, I began by painting their faces all with multiple thin layers of Kislev Flesh, I decided to use the one step up flesh colour because I felt it made their faces lighter which might make sense, given that they are elves.
I then began by painting all of the basecoats on the models, when I first started painting I would paint one thing for example all of the face and then paint the whole of another thing, which often meant that I'd redo a lot of things because I've not managed to perfect my steady hand yet! I recently started painting all basecoats together, which I suppose is a pretty standard technique!
Between the last and next photo I did most of the models, but didn't take any photos! This mainly involved finishing the basecoats, highlighting, washing and touching up bits. I then did the main basecoat for the bases.
Next came the details on the base!
Here is a close up photo of one of them, where you can see the detail on the base a little better, not a great photo at all, mainly because the window is directly near to the desk!
Then finally I got out the last batch of 10 rangers and begun adding some more shading, and also prepping the faces for the eyes.
Still left to complete on them are finishing off the faces, including the eyes mainly and then perhaps general tidying up on all of them. I also want to improve all of the bases by adding some flower tufts Tim and I recently got to match the bases of Thranduil, Legolas and Tauriel, and I think I also want to add a mushroom or two to a few bases to vary them. These will get more work done at the end of the week now as I am now back home getting ready for my graduation!
As always, any hints/tips or suggestions are more than welcome! Thanks everyone
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