Countdown to VaultCon 2011 Part 14

The gonks are starting to shape up.  It's easier to paint them than write about them for sure!

Eyes.
Eyes are important and it's worth spending a bit of time on them.  I often start at the eyes before painting anything else.  (I've also stripped gonks back to bare metal if I've not been happy with them - this is obviously a whole lot easier if the rest of the model is just primed rather than complete).

I start off with a black background and then carefully paint a "Dead White" eye shape making sure to leave a small amount of black showing around the edge.  Then once dry, I'll add a bit of colour to finish with a black pupil.  (As you can imagine, a small brush is used for this!) If the eye is big like on the troll's then I might add a tiny white dot as well to look like light reflecting.

The Troll has got yellow eyes, (for a change as red is normally my troll eye colour).  Once the white was painted on I painted two or three thin coats of yellow to get a good shade.

I think the yellow eyes look quite cool.

The Orc had red eyes. Again I started with a black background and then painted two white dots.  These were painted "Bloody Red" and each given a pin prick of white.  With Orcs I like to keep it simple and tend to have a lot of black in the socket to make the red really stand out.