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Beastmen III

So, as expected, I didn’t get a huge amount done tonight.

I managed to get their legs done, once again with Gore Grunta and black, similar to the Fey.

I also opened the Shyish Purpleand decided to give the cloth a go with that. I basically was a bit messy on this as there are so many dangly bits hanging from belts etc, I thought it easier to go over everything with the same amount of paint rather than pain around every tooth and amulet (of which there are a lot). Tomorrow, when the purple is dry, I will repaint all the annoying bits white again (and repaint the hooves too) then paint whatever I think needs doing next.

The big beastie with the axe will still have red armour. No doubt this will clash horribly with the red, but somehow I can’t see the clan chief rolling its eyes and muttering loudly… “I just can’t believe he is wearing red armour with the purple kilt!” Or maybe he will and that’s how and why leadership battles occur!

Regarding today’s One Ring RPG

The fellowship managed to take down a troll in two rounds…. one character inflicting 43 hit points worth of damage alone. Okay it was an under strength troll, but still! Never have I seen so many damage success dice so often. My troll only got to roll once to hit the nasty dwarf and missed. He never got a second chance 😢.

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Beastmen… A Smidge Further Forward

Today was a busy one, lots of running about like a loon, so very little done today. I ha£ to sit as a bouncer and doorman at the kids Halloween party. I had the unusual job of not letting people out, rather than not letting them in!

The one thing I did manage was to get some paint on the fur.

I have decided to go with a black fur, it still looks naff at the minute with all the white surrounding it. Hopefully, once everything else is painted then it will look ok. If not I repaint those bits white and recolour. (Edit to post)…I just had a look at the picture of the Minis in the rules, to actually see what colour the metalwork was…lo and behold…

Black/grey fur…. possible subliminal recall, I would have sworn they were brown though.

I did think to do it Gore Grunta, but it would look a bit too much like the skin tone as I mixed it with the flesh tone to make a darker skin colour.

I will also have to have a think about metalwork colours. The obvious one is ‘gun metal’ with a silver highlight for the weapons. The picture above has black armour, but mine would end up the same as the fur. I will probably go for a dark red…possibly 🤣.

Tomorrow I am off to see my sister who has moved back to Shetland, I am also running another RPG, so I may not get much done tomorrow either.

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Beastmen Making a Start

It really was just a start, got in late after having to drive past the house and head off to do the horse. Came back and did a couple of batches of flapjacks (from what turned out to be a duff recipe) for my good ladies Moder Dy event tomorrow evening.

Anyway I had a look at my various contrast paint and decided that I had nothing that would act as a skin tone, therefore I did a mix of two parts guilliman flesh and one part gore grunta fur.

I was hoping to get a bit further on, but sadly not this evening.

The one useful thing I have got is a set of these covering the full Contrast range

Sadly I can’t remember where I got these from, so cannot credit the person who did all of the work… it was obviously from Someone called James!

Tomorrow it will be all of the fur, as well the legs and hooves. Looking at these miniatures, there is going to be a lot of fiddly stuff going on. All of them will more than likely give me a headache. As an example the ungor between the two larger ones is cutting his own chest and seems to have a number of healed scars. Another of them has piercings everywhere!

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Fey Finished…Onto the Beastmen

So I eventually got these finished… I have really enjoyed doing them and am pleased with how they look.

They are, with the exception of the metallics, all done in Contrast paint (apart from Army Painter dark wash on the hair). The contrast paint was added over a cheap white car primer (well £4 a can). One day I might splash out and see what the ‘proper’ undercoat colour looks like, but I doubt it. I would rather spend my money on toys and not undercoat 😉.

I could go over bits and do highlights, but haven’t worked out how with this paint yet.

As these were finished, I made a start on the Beasties…

I got all six built, these went together easier than the Fey. So easy in fact that I had to superglue one of the heads on as I reckon I would have lost the thing eventually.

So once built, I warmed up my spray can in warm water and then gave them a blast.

I will have to have a think about the colours, they will be a lot less bright than the fey, I would imagine green and gold would not feature heavily in their wardrobe choice.

Regarding colours, if you had asked me I would have said I had painted these with a very limited palette….

It was this many!

Guilliman flesh

Aggaros Dunes

Flesh Tearer red

Black Templar

Snakebite leather

Skeleton horde

Plaguebearer flesh

Gryph Charger grey

Militarium green

Iyanden Yellow

Gryph hound orange

Ork flesh

Gore Grunta fur

Wyldwood

Blood angels red

I forgot to show warp lightning, this was used on the gems in the belly of each of them

I also didn’t bother showing the paints I repainted a different colour.

This is not all of the Contrast paints I have, but for the beasties I will probably have to mix some of the colours rather than purchase any more.

I have decided to leave the fey bases as is for the time being as they are beginning to grow on me.

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Fey… So Close

I nearly got these finished tonight, needed to wait for things to dry so I should manage to get them completed tomorrow.

In all honesty, all I really need to do now is to get the centre of the flowers done and the. That is about it, apart from making sure I haven’t missed anything.

I decided on yellow eyes without a pupil. There was a lot of Doreen on each mini, and I wanted something a little bit different. I can’t tell whether it is visible or not in the photo. I used the same colour as the flowers.

I am not sure what to do with the base rim, I will have to decide whether I leave it with the mottled look or whether to paint it black or dark brown.

Tomorrow I will finish these off then get the other set built too.

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Painting the Fey… Almost There

I did some more work on these tonight…

Metalwork is pretty much done, bases started too. I am going to repaint the quiver as I did it silver and it looks totally naff. I also did a couple of the flowers on the bases dark blue and to be honest they don’t look right at all. I will have a go at red or orange and see what they look like then.

One thing I must do is sort out their eyes, I am thinking green, no visible pupils, just greenish eyes that would befit some kind if fey creature. I will have to have a think and see where I get with my perusing.

I spent a bit more money today!

I managed to get it cheap on a Facebook selling group, I have been after it for a while, so here is hoping that I like it. If not the miniatures can be used in my RPG and the adventures likewise.

Back to teaching tomorrow after half term and then a couple of training days.

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Painting the Fey IV

So tonight I actually got some more done… not huge amounts, but an extra layer of gold on the parts that had a layer already and some bits and bobs on them all.

I also added all of the bits back onto the models. Tomorrow I will get on with the ironwork and silver too.

Apart from the Gold and a dark wash from Army Painter, these have all been done with just Contrast paint. I really liked the paint with the smaller scale stuff, but I am pleasantly surprised with how the 28’s are coming on. Once these are done I will then need to do the beast men.

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Look, Look…I painted something

So after my woeful last post regarding a lack of energy to paint anything, I got a second wind and got the gold paint out…

Gold is really difficult to photograph, I thought I had missed loads only to realise it was a reflection.

Still bucketloads to paint but a teeny bit of progress is progress.

I also returned home to find my new rules a bit wet. I can only blame myself, I left them lying and I left the undrunk cup of tea next to them. Obviously someone bumped something and said tea went splosh!

They are getting the toilet paper drying method…. here is hoping the TP doesn’t stick to the pages!

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Fey… Further Work

I decided to push on with these tonight…

Still loads to do but definitely getting there. My biggest problem was that bits that needed painting couldn’t be because of things like the centaur armour and on of the sword arms of another. I decided to get these off…

One side came off fine, but the other snapped off 🤬. On the up side the beastmen don’t seem to have anything similar to get in the way.I moved away totally from the box art, for a Start bright orange hair just doesn’t say fey to me, it always make me think of dwarf slayers. I darkened down the hair with some Army Painter dark wash. I am a lot happier with this than just the Contrast Black yesterday.

Hopefully I will be able to get some more done tomorrow evening as life is more than likely going to get in the way as I have my eldest of to a friends house, I will be off visiting my mate and all sorts of shenanigans like that.

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Fey…Making a Start

So I decided to move away from tanks, goblins and samurai and give the new purchase a paint.

As per normal, I am experimenting with the contrast paint. I painted the flesh tones and made a start on the centaur body too. The Black isn’t exactly what I call black. It is what I would call grey, but over a white undercoat, it is probably going to come out grey.

All of the fey have some paint on them now, I will carry on tomorrow.

I will give the hair another blast if the black and see if that makes it closer to black. The lower bodies of the three on foot (or should that be hoof) will have similar colours to the centaur.