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The Walking Dead Boot Camp - Saturday
Catching Up With The Painters!
Nov 12 2016 @ 11:33
70 Comments
While games are indeed going on we've also got some eager beavers painting up their sets.
We caught up with them to find out how its going...
ive been experimenting with zenith priming and ink washes afterwards to bring the colour with the Vallejo inks there are lots of choice and touch wood so far my efforts have been more than ok even if i say so myself
What is zenith priming? I heard them mention it with the airbrush for the Cell Shading, but I don’t know what it is…
Zenithial highlighting is an airbrush technique that simulates an overhead lightsource similar to the sun. Usually you would start with a low tone as your basecoat and then you load a higher tone into the airbrush and spray at an angle. Say our colours are Black basecoat, then medium grey and light grey as our high tones, with white as top highlight. With medium grey you spray at around a 45 degree angle to the model all the way around the piece. Then with light grey around 60 to 65 degree angle all the way around the model. Finally with the white you very sparingly spray just the parts of the mini that would get the most light (head & hands usually). The technique gives a very realistic shading to the miniature if the figure is not carrying a lightsource.
Thank you for the detailed answer. I will give it a try on some test minis.
thanks, that’s awesome. I never even considered doing something like that. I can not wait to try it.
There is a ton of stuff in the box I cant see how you can paint them all and game but good luck chaps with it
Such a super idea that people can paint their minis if they want.
The dedication is inspiring… looking across the room at all my unpainted mini’s, Is it just me, or do other people find that when you finally commit to painting up an army or figure set for gaming, by the time you finish all the other players in your gaming group have moved on to another game? I just finished a lovely paint job on age of sigmar sig-marines to find nobody is playing it again! I think this is why a bootcamp is such a great idea – captive audience of players with one system 🙂
I usually find that halfway one project I started 3 others.
We know that feeling in our club. Just restarted painting my Abyssals ready for next round of KOW whilst trying to paint and play world of twilight Anyaral.
i see Justin rocking the lucky hat.
Suits him really
listening to most of the stories from Friday, I’m not convinced of its lucky qualities.
Really? Looks like a kid in a massive hat. I think Justin might have a very little head…
hope to see good examples for painting my own stuff – first impression goes well
Those walls look padded to me.
You don’t have to be mad to work at BOW, but it helps
He’s getting quite the outfit, lucky hat and pinney. What’s next?
All those minis… Unbelievable I missed the KS, the additional minis and especially the plastic cars and tokens look great!
Zenith priming and spot colour works really well
Truthfully i’m not the fastest of painters (almost glacial if I’m honest) so if I was there all i’d be doing is putting my initials or just a blob of paint on the underside of the bases so I could tell my mini’s from everybody else’s – which takes me back to when I was a kid and my parents used some weird liquid shoe polish to paint the bases of my Airfix soldiers so they could identify mine from the kid’s down the road,
These minis are so nice, I can’t wait to splash some paint on them.
One thing I noticed in my early games is, that it gets hard to tell the walkers from the Characters quite fast. So, I would suggest priming the Walkers in a different color right away, if You want to start playing imidietly. Makes things easier.
Some many models too paint
The models will be fun to paint.
Looks like there was a really good turnout for the bootcamp
Some people seem really excited to start painting. I would just be gaming. I don’t think I can paint at an event like this. I would be more interested in looking for more potential gamers to play with.
I used to think that to, but now I think I’d be just as interested in sitting around a paint table for a few hours and picking up tips and ideas from everyone.
Seems like Mantic has learned to make rules more clearly. Keep up the good work!
Great miniatures,still not decided wether to go monochrome or full colour
While I’m looking forward to getting my Kickstarter goodies, I can’t say I’m looking forward to all the painting. I still have a couple of Frostgrave warbands (and monsters), a couple of This is Not a Test warbands (and monsters), Abyssal and Ogre armies for KoW, and my Kickstarter pledge for Blood Rage waiting to be painted. At this rate, I’ll probably still have unpainted games by the time my Mythic Battles pledge arrives!
On the other hand…I have 2 full themed tables for This is Not a Test, a full dungeon set and two tables worth of terrain for Frostgrave, and several sets of terrain (mountains, dwarven hold, ancient ruins, and a small village) for Kow/fantasy skirmish. For me, terrain building is fun, miniature painting is a chore.
Truthfully I pay a friend to paint my minis. I don’t have the patience or the skill to do good figures justice,
“… and obviously blood” indeed!
A fully painted set would be an awesome thing to have
cool
Seeing this always intimidated me… I never paint well but enjoy trying.
These are good minis to paint, lots of nice detail.
A gaming table always looks better with painted minis, even the simplest paint scheme can lift the whole theatrical appearance.
There are a lot of cool mini`s in the box, and there`s gonna be some great paint job`s to them. Me i`m going the Cell Shade route with mine.
more blood, what ermm hurumph. I worry about zenith priming, primers tend to be a lot thicker than airbrush paints and more likely to ( whats the word for glob up) spray little drops rather than a fine mist. hope the results are what people wanted
Didnt I see Justin in that exact same hat a few months ago on the History channel – it was a programme about General Custer?!
Nice to see Lloydy’s empty pot noodle tubs have finally found a good use.
Theres a serious amount of spray paints in that very small space….no wonder some of the guys are looking a bit stoned.
It’s always nice to see a room full of people all getting their hobby one. It’s not an uncommon sight in my household and you always seem to get more done I find.
I think I’m going to start tinkering with using 2 or 3 tone priming, especially on larger models, followed by simple thin base coats and washes/glazes. Of course, maybe I should just finally get an airbrush….
Man I could see myself pulling some long days playing all day and painting into the wee hours. If you brought your own airbrush could you get use of a compressor there?
Painting-schmainting, it’s game time, Survivors!
Blaster was here… [& isn’t much of a painter to begin with]
I’m not sure how well I’d be painting after a day of gaming and night of pints.. but kudos to everyone for trying to get some colors on some walkers and heroes!!! Reminds me I have a bunch of undead I gotta get some paint on myself….
Is anyone at the camp trying the mono black/white comic book scheme I’ve seen mentioned a lot online? I’d be very interested to see how it looks compared to coloured painting
Nice to let them use your paints
Those figs are going to look great all painted up.
Hadn’t really been able to see how detailed the models were until I saw them part painted. I better start clearing my hobby area… so many abyssals to finish first =O
Will have to invest on a airbrush kit to try the cell shading.
Now i want to go to my gaming room and paint some minis!!
Always painted stuff is great!
how minis are in the box?
Thats slot of mini’s to paint guys
Normally I stay miles away from painting blood on my mini’s but I think this is one of those game where it is impossible 😀
I am not sure yet whether to paint the minis using cell shading or with colours, I can see cell shading working great on Mythic battles but think for TWD colours maybe better.
I would start off wanting to paint them all up fully. Not sure how far I would get until shiny syndrome kicks in and I start a new project……. always the way…….
Awesome. I wish I was there.
@errorzero thanks for the zenith priming description. Have to experiment with that on these.
Good to see mix of hobby time going on
Amazing work going on, by how come they arent playhing more
Inspired me to start building some of my Plastcraft Colored Post Apoc scenery for my Walking Dead KS.
Great work guys! Makes me feel guilty that I havent painted minis from my other Kickstarter games.
Really like theese minis
Get em painted quickly there’s games happening!!!
Brains!
I want to see what folks have time to really get done this weekend. Curious how far and fast they can get
Cool minis!
This stuff is epic
Definitely minis looks better when painted, but for unpainted minis did you use self shadeing technique? I would love to here about this more
The game looks really cool
Did army painter spend a special mix of paints? Specialized for zombies?