Salamander... the magical disappearing post...

Somehow, this post seems to have reverted to an old draft version with no text or anything on it...!! These were the most recent images of my space marine on his base. I had written some decent blurb and linked to a pic where I had first created the base for other purposes... bah...! 

Here the posts is, re-instated... 

Ginger spice?

I've been progressing nicely with the Warploque Bayourkand have got to the stage where i wanted to paint his hair. But here is the tricky bit... what colour? I settled on a fairly muted orange triad by Reaper ('carrot top' or something like that) as I thought it would contrast nicely against his blue denim-esque trousers and green skin (a bit Blanca from Street Fighter too).

I forged ahead and started slapping paint on but now I am unsure whether I made the right decision...

So, the nature of this post - what do you guys think? Any ideas for hair colour or do you think ginger is the way to go? One thing I should point out is that the colours are more saturated in real life - as a point of reference, the tile he is stood on is brilliant white)

Any help would be most appreciated!

All the small things

Gradually working my way through the rather groovy details. The pelt across his shoulders has received some TLC (not shown in this pic), but most of last night was spent working on the bottle of grog. I wanted to make it look like a glass bottle with a red/brown liquid in. Its not quite finished yet, but I think it is getting there.

Bayourk after today's painting

I've made good progress on the Bayourk today - have tweaked the skin a little more (very subtle in the photos but definitely more depth in real life) and he now has trousers and boots!

Also painted a jade statue attached to his belt.

If you like him, check out the kickstarter for the ArcWorlde skirmish game

Bayourk chieftain - flesh done...

The Bayourk chieftain is on the deck and after a really quick cleanup, I sprayed him grey and immediately got working on the skin.

He has been thoroughly enjoyable so far - proper orc character and balls of steel. I would definitely paint more!