Paint it or Punt it
Gondor/Minas Tirith Project
Back around February or March 2019, I picked up a large Gondor army from eBay so dirt cheap. We’ve all had those sales, the ones where you feel kind of bad about how little you paid. Then the army turns up and you don’t feel so bad… no? Maybe just me then!
The whole army is around 125 models, somewhere between 20-30 of them are in various stages of broken. Everyone of them needs stripped. I did the only sensible thing and put them in the cupboard and forgot about them.
Under this project I’ve been dividing them up and working in batches. I’ve already painted up all the archers. I have all the spearmen in Dettol to strip right now but I found a bunch that I had stripped and primed back before Corona appeared for a Battle Companies campaign that hasn’t happened.
I have a basic “get it done” paint scheme. I’ll put more effort into heroes but this is about getting the nearly 100 warriors done without wanting to throw them all out the window.
1. Skin base layer
2. Wood (and leather straps on heroes)
3. All of the metal
4. Touching up the black (mainly on the shields)
5. Sword hilts and a few minor details to add a bit of interest to the models
6. Second layer for faces
7. All over wash because I'm too lazy to use a different wash for the faces. I then highlighted with base colours except for the black obviously which was highlighted with Eshin Grey
8. Quick and simple basing job
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