Bogenwald

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.