The Drowned Earth - Wispa's Militia painting project

I’ve tried to capture some steps as I did them when building / painting the mounted version of Forek.

Step 1 – build the main model and added texture/cork to base (as per rest of the faction).

Step 2 – Zenithal airbrush highlighting

Airbrushed black / grey / white to provide a zenithal highlight. ( sorry if the photos don’t really show it clearly).

Step 3 – Airbrush base colour.

I decided to stick to the standard yellow colour for the Load Lifter, lightly priming with GW Averland Sunset to try and maintain the zenithal highlighting. Leaving the dino skull off for now so I can get in to paint Forek.

Step 4 – Basecoat.

Applied the basecoat to the majority of the figure now. Not much more of say at this point.

Step 5 – Forek details painted / Lifter drybrushed.

At this time I painted the skin on Forek (at the same time as I was doing the standard mini).

I also didn’t like how the lifter was looking so drybrushed top down with a brighter yellow, which helped I think.

At this stage I’ve learnt to not get too disappointed until you’ve added more detail – eventually the model will come to life for you I find if you stick with it.

Step 6 – Painted.

Pretty much jumped ahead here to the painted model with the dino skull fitted. I didn’t do a lot of clever stuff here, just basecoats, washes, highlights on the whole. A few edge highlights added to the armour along with some dents (poorly done).

I would add more posts but this seems to be the limit in one thread.

What’s left to do is the basing which I’m doing all in one go across all the minis in the faction. More on that later…