Slann WIP (very WIP)

[Dave]

Painted the better part of the first lino last week, and also did two of his leapy friends for a bit.

At first I gave them red eyes but it didn't work, they're green now and that looks much better.
Still quite a bit of work to do though, numbers, highlighting the black in a better way, get rid of tiny mistakes, base and eyes (pupils and stuff)

first some picts of the frog that's nearest to completion:









then two of his palls on the LOS:

[Dave]

there's a few things I'm still considering:

1) the eyes: vertical or horizontal slits, or just enormous pupils?
2) the straps: keep them black or make them white (bone)?

[the solitaire]

The eyes, horizontal

The reason:

This:



is commonly associated with frogs whereas vertical:



is commonly associated with a different animal.

Even though this guy:



also has them

[Dave]

I know .. but there's this as well:





I think I'll go with rather large, horizontal ones

[velvet mark]

Id go white for the straps, and horizontal for the eyes like Grey Matter from Ben 10

Cool scheme so far Dave.

[inkpwn]

When painting my slann I decided to challenge myself and paint one of the more complex frog eyes=


Also, eye-dea for the head coach. =

[Dr. Von Richten]

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!



Also, nice frogs! Do the Kermit eyes, you know you want to!

[Norse]

horizontal slits, but the eyes are still too dark Dave, you need to highlight them up to neon green/yellow IMHO..

[juck101]

Pretty cool but the flesh is a bit flat. Considering almost all the mini is flesh how about some tattos or warpaint?

Green or magenta would make a nice contrast colour.

That means it you put some on the fig the head probably ought to end up as the focal point.

[betterZthenDeaD]

Really like the blue skin and the contrast with the orange. Has anyone ever given their frogs a thing coat of gloss varnish on the skin to represent the 'sheen' you see on real frog skin?

[Rowly]

They remind me of 'Battle Toads' and that can only be a good thing!

[the solitaire]

Something like this could break up the blue´ishness on those toads:

[longfang]

Don't you think that slann should be allowed to ignore pouring rain on the kick off table.

Not bad Dave, a little more depth in shading. Break up the blue, maybe make the stomach and chest much lighter and add colour to the back. Careful how you do those eyes.

[Norse]

He's probably going to dip them anyway!

[Dave]

He's probably going to dip them anyway!

he hee

no I'm not