My ultra thin Sharpies are used…..
I eventually got round to playing around with a regimental and colonel’s colours.
It took a bit of trial and effort to get the correct combination. some looked wrong, other colours just disappeared next to the black as seen below. I am using Sharpies to colour them as this speeds up the job no end.
What I might do once they are finished is to copy them and see what they look like on a colour printer.
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….
Well almost….. As one lot is finished another lot is started.
I got these based up tonight, Although the Witch-lands are a frozen Hell; my lot have been sent south to attack the borderlands. Therefore no ice and snow….
As the lot above are finished, I decided that I had better make a start on another ten. These are better armed than those above with the majority having firearms.
The big thing is an old Ral Partha figure that has become either a statue or Golem.
Nearly there…
Nearly there with the militia.
I am a bit miffed that I forgot to check for mould lines on the older figures (aka the ones I built about 15 years ago). I decided to paint the hat and belt on the Liche a lot brighter than the dark ones on the other ones. It does seem to work so far. Still to wash and highlight as well as finish the red standard.
As an aside I managed to update my Ostarian flags. Both regimental and colonel’s.
Scalloway Fire festival last night.
This is a short time lapse of the procession going past.
I got some heads on these chaps last night. The old GW makes it a right bugger to mix and match. The Mordheim figures have a flat head connection whereas the zombies have a bump and hollow connection. After much swearing 🤬I added a little ball of Milliput onto the neck and left it overnight to dry (sadly I had run out of Greenstuff). This morning I superglued all the bits together.
These will become savant zombie Militia.
Sadly the Peppa Pig jumping pigs 🐖 is no more 🐷🐷🐷
Another unit ready to start…
I was having a mooch through my box of plastics and came across a couple or Mordheim gangs.
The human gang will become another unit of militia, more recently dead ones, but a lot are armed with firearms (obviously traders looking to make their fortunes in the Witchlands).
The second gang I found were the original Skaven. These two had lost their tails and it made me wonder if it would be possible to make them some kind of ghoul or other weird denizen of the Witchlands.
I will see what happens when I stick a zombie head on them…..
These are taking forever…
they have a lot of open wounds etc that take a while to paint in. Same with the eyes 👀.
So far I have units of 8 with a Liche, and two standard bearers, the one with the red flag is based on Napoleonic Russian Militia who carried a religious standard rather than a regimental one.
As these are undead forces, an image of the Virgin Mary seemed a little inappropriate. I was going to come up with something myself then I came across a GW warrior of Chaos cloak which seemed to work. The second is a ragged flag or standard made out of Greenstuff which I rolled very thin then basically ripped/poked holes in it and wrapped it around the flagpole.
As a total aside I have redone the Ostarian flags and luckily my new Ultra fine Sharpies have arrived
This should make it a bit easier to add colours to the various designs.
Dave Graffam Model’s Rock!
I have had a pile of Dave’s card models for a while, so as I bought Frostgrave I thought it would be good to do up some more of the buildings. These will also work really well for my Flintloque games too.
I got mine from RPG Now, but the site below is Dave’s own
I ran a piece of acetate through my printer to get the leaded windows.
To be honest I messed up this kit a fair bit. I forgot to join the two walls together before I stuck them down, this meant that I have had to glue the boxes down onto the wall to support the the corner not to mention adding one to the wall. I will put one on the other wall to support the joint to the base too, because being the pillock that I am I cut of the base supports too!
All in all this is a really nice kit. I would advise actually reading the instructions which are very comprehensive, unlike me. I had forgotten to print them off and though how hard can it be – thereupon lies the problem :). I have a number of others to build so I will hopefully learn from my mistakes.
I can make my own ruined buildings out of blue foam etc, but with this costing $2.95 it doesn’t really seem worth it. I got another three ruined buildings in this purchase, one each with a number of skins so I can have quite a few buildings from the 4 sets.
I have a couple of these with accessible interiors as well as a number of others…http://www.davesgames.net/catalog-fantasy-accessible-interiors.htm
Yippee, some painting done tonight.
I managed a little bit more on these tonight. Half Blood Prince watched too.
Bogenwald 