The Drowned Earth – Wispa’s Militia painting project

Plan to try and log the stages / progress I make building and painting my Drowned Earth faction (Militia) to a) help me finish the project and b) test the new BoW project tool.

Miniatures now built and bases applied (which I think might have been a mistake as I want to try doing some sort of water effects given the nature of the game but we’ll see).

Some of the parts were very fiddly and I can’t say I enjoyed the building on the whole. I always seem to find this with metal though.

Added some basic texture to the bases now using (in increasing size):

Vallejo Ground Texture (Rough White Pumice) ;

Sharp sand ;

Cork bits.

Militia Leader is stood on a piece of slate I took from the garden!

Tried to leave some space for water effects (hoping the the lipped bases and texture will act as barrier for it when I apply it). To be honest they don’t look great at the stage and I’m regretting not doing them before fixing the models to the bases but on we go).

Using my airbrush (best hobby purchase ever!) I primed black / grey / white to get a zenithal effect. It really makes the models (and texturing) look better. I suspect it’ll be some time before I come to paint them but they at least look presentable now….

Ranelle basecoat fur (black) & skin (dark bluegrey) done. Not much more to add.

I plan to drybrush fur up to the skin colour to help blend them together, and maybe some lighter highlighted areas for definition. Probably khaki for the uniform (as it’s the militia faction after all) but add some colour in there somewhere.

Fur and flesh drybrushed and painted. Basecoated for rest of the figure as well. Nothing special.

I originally painted the bandana/wraps in a turquoise colour but I really didn’t like it I painted over that with red.

At this stage of the project I’m not really feeling it but that’s often the case I find when you’ve just started. Anyway some quick pics with paints used.

Final shoots of Ranelle for now.

Since the last step I’ve basically applied a wash (Agrax Earthshade or Nuln Oil) and then re-highlighted and picked up folds etc where required.

The results look ok for tabletop / tabletop distance. I’m a bit worried it’s all be bit drab but hoping that a bright swamp base will save that. I don’t intend to base however until the rest are painted so I get a uniform basing approach.

Painted Hove in one sitting and as a result there’s no step photos for this one. Trickiest bit was the skin given my inspiration for the scheme (photo below), after that it was basically a case of finding some greens that I was happy with and then my first attempt a camo on the trousers (which now I look at it seems like a waste as you don’t really see them!). I might touch some stuff up but that’ll wait til after I’ve based and got a final idea on the piece as a whole.

Skintone = Vallejo Game Color 044 Dark Fleshtone then gradually mixed in some Cadian Fleshtone in 3 or 4 layers to try and highlight.

Trousers = Vallejo Model Color Brown Violet, then camo pattern was Black / VMC Flat Earth / VMC Khaki / Sharsnik Green.

Cloak = VMC Military Green

Gloves = VMC Khaki

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