I found these earlier…

So I repainted them. I was intending to be in bed early tonight….that plan failed. The reason for painting them? I was going to sell them and they looked really naff in their chipped basecoat!

I decided to mess around with some blood effects I went for a more dried look, but I think it needs highlighting up a bit

They basically started out like this… evidently 15 years rolling around in a box did them no good. Not to mention…what flesh base colour was that? They look jaundiced, well I suppose a life of living in graveyards and not getting many green vegetables will take its toll.

Thinking back I vaguely remember actually gaming with these in my Vampire gang for Mordheim. Apart from the bases I kind of thought they were finished at the time.😱😱😱

This is where I think finding old figures is handy. Even though this was a speedy job to get them into a game it really does show how far I have come. There is no attempt at shading, highlighting or pretty much anything else apart from flesh, bone coloured bone, pink tongue, a grey loincloth and a black dot for the eyes. I did however paint the edge of their bases!

Now to be honest the mark 2 paint job is far from perfect and in a strange way was a speed job too. I might get another flesh glaze on them and see how that looks.

I think it is down to the if I could improve one thing – what would it be?

I painted them with these two brushes… One has a bend and the other doesn’t have a point

I have a whole host of new brushes never out of their packets, just too lazy to walk to the other end of the house to find them.

I really need to sort out a way to take better photos….