Resolution 2020: Clearing the pile of shame

These were painted in the same way as the starting survivors, except I used two new brown colour sets to represent the rawhide.

Most of the browns were painted XV-88 and then highlighted tausept ochre followed by bubonic brown before the seraphim sepia wash.

The darker browns were painted mournefang brown and then highlighted skrag brown before the seraphim sepia wash.

These survivors were painted the same as before, except the leather is rhinox hide highlighted with baneblade brown before the seraphim sepia wash.

Hair colours were loren forest highlighted with straken green, iyanden darksun highlighted with flash gitz yellow or evil sunz scarlet highlighted with wild rider red. The fourth model had a leather hood.

It was a nice change of pace to just focus on a single mini for a change. This also gave me the opportunity to try something different for a skin tone, as in the artwork this model seems to have a metallic skin colour.

The model was undercoated greyseer then zenithed with wraithbone.

The skin was basecoated with a 50:50 mix of rakarth flesh:runefang steel. It was then highlighted with a 50:50 mix of flayed one flesh:runefang steel, followed by a final highlight of 50:50 pallid wych flesh:runefang steel.

The leather clothing was basecoated mournefang brown, washed with druchii violet, then highlighted with skrag brown followed by tuskgor fur.

Her hair was painted tausept ochre, washed seraphim sepia, then highlighted bubonic brown.

The metal areas were either painted screaming bell, washed reikland fleshshade, then highlighted hashut copper followed by sycorax bronze, or were basecoated warplock bronze and then highlighted with brass scorpion followed by runelord brass.

The molten metal in the crucible was painted iyanden darksun, washed fuegan orange, then highlighted flash gitz yellow.

The base was painted with basilicanum grey contrast paint.

This entry isn’t actually a model from my pile of shame, but it doesn’t make sense to create a whole new project just for this one model so I’m throwing it in here.

My gaming club’s latest painting competition has the limitation of only grey scale allowed. I suggested we allow a single colour for source lighting or to go for a Sin City style, and that was accepted.

The model is a 3D print from my Sparkmaker SLA printer. The STL file came from a Kickstarter by Bella Nacht Miniatures, and you can find the files for sale here: https://gumroad.com/bellanacht.

There are a few lines visible on the print. I had just changed to a new resin when I printed the model and didn’t realise the exposure time needed increasing a little bit.

The model was undercoated mechanicus standard grey then zenithed with corax white.

The feathers, skin, and smoke were all painted using layers of 50:50 celestra grey:lahmian medium, 50:50 ulthuan grey:lahmian medium, and 50:50 white scar:lahmian medium. Without the option to use colours to distinguish the different parts of the model I had to attempt different textures instead. For the feathers I wet blended darker grey at the base of the feathers, through mid-tone grey in the middle and white at the tips. For the skin I tried smooth highlights and for the smoke I went with starker highlights.

To help add definition to the model, particularly with the feathers, the entire model got a wash of 50:50 nuln oil:lahmian medium.

The leather straps and blindfold were picked out with a 50:50 abaddon black:lahmian medium.

To make the star and mood really pop as light sources they each had about five coats of the white scar mix used earlier. They were then glazed with 50:50 lamenters yellow:lahmian medium. This yellow glaze was applied to the star and moon, plus all the areas I imagined light from them would fall. I then applied successive glazes (about five in total) with each one covering the star, moon, and a little less of the illuminated area. This was to provide a yellow gradient brightest at the centre of the location where the light hit, and faintest at the edges.

These survivors were painted in the same way as previous sets, except the clothing was painted zandri dust then drybrushed ushabti bone followed by screaming skull. The mains were painted skrag brown and highlighted deathclaw brown. This tied the colour scheme in with the one I used for the Lion model itself.

Once again I painted this set to match the monster that their armour is tied to. In this case that meant painting the leather rhinox hide, highlighted by doombull brown followed by tuskgor fur.

The fur was painted mournefang brown and then highlighted skrag brown followed by deathclaw brown.

The bone and horns were painted baneblade brown and then highlighted rakarth flesh followed by flayed one flesh.

One of the survivors is suffering from the King’s curse and their head has grown a Regal Helmet. This is painted bugman’s glow and then highlighted auric armour gold followed by liberator gold.

This is the model @horati0nosebl0wer sent me as part of the COGs only gifting chain (https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/cogs-only-gifting-chain/).

The model arrived undercoated black with a white zenith.

I started by applying basecoats using contrast paints. Wyldwood  for the skin (I wanted the model to look like a wooden dryad), warp lightning for the dress, militarum green for the boots and vambraces, skeleton horde for the staff, darkoath flesh for the rocks on the base volupus pink for the head dress and basilicanum grey for the dagger.

I drybrushed the base and staff with tyrant skull, the greens with hellion green, the head dress with changeling pink and the dagger with necron compound.

The eyes were painted vomit brown, trying to give the appearance of amber. The skin was highlighted skrag brown followed by deathclaw brown.

The crystals on the base and staff were painted wraithbone and then with aethermatic blue.

With these models painted all the models from the core game are now finished.

These were painted in the same way as my previous Kingdom Death Monster models. The only “new” schemes were to tie the phoenix armour into my phoenix model which I painted years ago when I got the game. The feathers are xereus purple highlighted with genestealer purple. The toes and fingers were painted pink horror and the smaller feathers were painted solar orange. Normally I’d use at least one colour to highlight but my other pink and orange paints had dried up.