Dannytee's Painting Competition Thread - Dwarf Cannon

Cannon and crew assembled and primed.

Here is a bit of an update. I stayed up late last night and got the base colors on the crew complete. I am actually trying several new things on these minis.

First, in the past I have always painted a portion of the mini complete before moving on. So I would do all of the armor including washes and highlights before going to skin for example. With these guys I decided to try doing all base colors, then any washes and finally highlights. Second the basing is different than with my other dwarves. In the past I have just painted the base green and applied flock at the end. These guys have sand on their bases which I will paint and then add a few select spots of grass flock. I have used this method for my lizardmen and it looks much better than just flock but all my past dwarves were flocked. I figure this is a painting completion so I should go all out. Finally I just recently finished changing my paints out to 100% Citadel. I used to use the cheap paint that you get at the hobby store. Sometimes the base coat would take up to three layers. Over the last couple of years I have slowly been building up my collection of citadel paints but now I have all of them that I need to paint my dwarves.

Here is the completed cannon and crew. I took a lot of pictures to show all the different angles.

Cannon on its own.