Otter way to go
So it began
Now I didn’t document my progress, mainly as I always forget, but more because I hadn’t really planned to start! If you want a painting guide there are far better people than me for the task!
After cleaning the model I thought about how I wanted to base the mini. I had an idea years back of putting some pirate models (not these but heyho) on bases that looked like decking of a ship so that the approach I went for.
The first step was to remove the puddle base from the mini as closely as I could.
A while ago I “liberated” some coffee stirrers for the task, so found a couple and just started eyeballing them to fit into the slight “inner” bit of the base. I superglued the Otter to the base with out pinning (FORBODING) and got him based.
I made use of a weekly D&D game to get the bulk of the painting done (the joys of trying to introduce kids to the game means there is a good amount down time!) Here is a pic of where I got to.
I got him finished off on the Monday, and then covered him in Army Painter dip, great for sealing over the gen 1 speed paints.
I then matt varnished him and then done? NO! Once again, despite a rather warm day… I got frosting, making a mess of the job.
Thankfully Gerry came to the rescue, suggesting that gloss spray followed by another matt should sort it – which it kinda did, just needed a little touch up here and there.
