{"id":3739,"date":"2015-03-10T00:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2018-01-14T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:49:13","slug":"daily-creativity-dexter-alvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/art\/daily-creativity-dexter-alvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Creativity: Dexter &#038; Alvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_3055.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3739]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3742\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/art\/daily-creativity-dexter-alvin\/attachment\/_mg_3055\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_3055.jpg?fit=800%2C533\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"_MG_3055\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_3055.jpg?fit=584%2C389\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_3055.jpg?resize=324%2C219\" alt=\"_MG_3055\" width=\"324\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>Dexter &amp; Alvin is an expansion for the Game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysofwonder.com\/tickettoride\/en\/alvin-dexter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ticket to Ride<\/a>, and was one of my christmas gifts. I LOVE Ticket to Ride but since I&#8217;m a super duper geek I couldn&#8217;t play this expansion until I painted the figures. I bought the right color paints in the same weekend but when I finally sat down to paint them, I couldn&#8217;t find the colors anywhere! I know now that I found a work around, I will find three pots of green games workshop paint and just want to scream! Instead I mixed other GW colors and used a little bit of craft paint. \u00a0I also glued nuts to the base since they are top heavy and fall over if you look at them. 3\/9\/2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysofwonder.com\/tickettoride\/en\/alvin-dexter\/\"><\/a>They start out looking like the picture to the right. I first painted them with the GW base &#8220;Chaos Black.&#8221; Then I painted a base layer of gray on the spaceship, brown on the smoke cloud, and red on the train stations. I mixed the yellow from my Space Marines and a blue Tek had to make the green. I think layered the silver I use for the chain swords on the ship, gun, and back pack. I used a brighter craft paint green and did a light layer on the dinosaur and the alien, making sure to just highlight. I also painted the underbelly of the dino. Then I did some dry brushing on the smoke cloud (two colors), and the train stations. I filled in some of the cracks on the stations too. I used a small brush to get the details in. Then I used two colors of GW shade, one was a blackish color, and then a sepia color, to make it look more three dimensional and more distressed. I painted the nuts in brown and then dipped them in terrain. 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