I managed to get a bit done on these.
From left to right…
Egor, Lady Boniface, Officer 6th Hussars, a gentleman doctor and a couple of Guard cavalrymen at the back.
I am hoping to get the front four finished soon. Most of the males have most of the base colours blocked in so I might get them done tomorrow night.
And they are done….
Well apart from finishing the bases off.
After hating them less than a week ago I really like them now. Looking at the photo, I can see stuff I would change or add to. For example The chappy with the beard looks a bit of a funny colour for a start and his long coat could do with some more highlights.
I am really pleased that I found these as they have bulked out my undead forces basically for free. I bought these about 15 years ago at the very least so that money was spent long ago. I only wish I had another eight or ten. If some come up on eBay cheap enough I might grab some but I reckon I have about thirty now so I have enough to keep me going.
Next up will be the remaining guard cavalry and attached officers and undead.
Not sure where I will go after that. I keep forgetting that I have some 15mm Ancient Germans and an undead army almost finished. I might bump them back into the queue. Then onto….. you know it is best not to think about the lead mountain that exists on my shelves.
I am getting there with these.
I have definitely turned the corner with these. I now am beginning to like them. They still have quite a way to go to get them finished. Unfortunately the majority of the base coat colours are in work so some of the highlighting will have to wait until tomorrow evening. I will probably do something with the white eyes add a yellowish tint to them.
Finishing the bases will also make a big difference to them too. It was nice to be able to just sit and paint for an hour.
I would have done some yesterday but after replacing three walls on the aviary and the tiling behind the new cooker I really couldn’t be bothered.
I managed a bit of painting this Lunchtime 🙂
They are now at the ‘I hate them stage’ as they need a second coat on the red and bits need tidying up. I always am amazed that they come together in the end. Although not a Golden demon painter I do the best that I can and it is better than I used to be so progress has been made.
Once they have had their washes on they will look better I am sure 🙂
After nearly 5 weeks I switched on my airbrush for the first time.
Here we have a couple more Guard cavalry and a Ferach surgeon and a hussar Officer as well as Madame Boniface and Egor (they say he is a golem, but to me he is an Egor.
I purchased the airbrush primarily to undercoat figures and terrain. To be honest it took a little working out. For example you have to lift the dial to change pressure before turning it however the instructions don’t say that the name it and say turn to alter the pressure.
The back nut on the airbrush needed loosening a bit to get the paint to flow properly. But to be honest it took about 5 minutes to work everything out.
I deliberately purchased airbrush paint as I wanted to reduce the number of variables that I needed to work with straight off. There are loads of YouTube sessions showing how to make your own airbrush ready paint.
The temperature today is about 1.5 degrees and blowing a gale. Not good spray painting weather. The thing I loved about this airbrush was the control of it. I painted each one whilst holding onto the base. Yeah my glove got a bit of paint on it, but compared to a spray can? Hardly any at all!
The paint layer on the figures looks really smooth. So all in all I am a very happy person.
This is the one I bought. It isn’t a Badger or any of the other ‘top’ makes but it does what I want it to do and that is good enough for me.
I managed to eventually feel up to painting something. It has now been around 3 weeks since I was last able to add anything to this Blog due to being away and then being down with the Flu.
These are going to be my more savant zombies. They were a group of traders who headed off into the witchlands and their hopes of wealth very quickly ended. They are armed with a higher proportion of firearms than the previous group. The Blunderbus may become a nasty addition to the opening up of a square!
Slight size change. Sort of half way between the larger and smaller versions. The squared paper helped get the angles right for the templates.
Coffins R Us!
I decided to give a couple of coffins a go. They are really just test pieces to see how I get on.
Both are made out of thin corrugated card. I am still not sure on which size to do. I decided to break up the smaller one . The figure is one of my Flintloque casualty ones.
I might also have a go with some thin balsa wood that I have and see how that works too.
I got the idea from DM Scotty. (His look loads better than mine)
I decided to have a look at what I had painted compared to what I do not.
This is not a bad little force of undead nastiness.
Back right we have 2 units of eight Militia with an associated Liche and wolf. Mounted general with his Lancer bodyguards
A unit of zombie infantry with another vampire. In front of them some Cossacks and other similar troops. A unit of axemen with another vampire A selection of KGB officers ready to keep this lot in check and then a unit of artillerymen.
A number still need basing properly.
I still have to paint:
A unit of ghouls of the Kryptofski regiment.
A unit of Werewolves
5 wraith cavalry
My re-animator
A large werewolf of the Visthowla legion
And some more Militia.
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….
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