Spring Clean 2021 – Totally historically accurate fantasy Celtic army

These were painted in exactly the same way as the javelin armed warriors I did in the last post.

In Celtic mythology magical animals were usually depicted as either pure white, red, or a combination of the two. So to make my unit of hounds mythical all I had to do was change the colour scheme.

These models were painted celestra grey and then drybrushed ulthuan grey. They then had a white scar drybrush on the tops of the models.

I then selectively applied two coats of bloodletter glaze to make most of the hounds either entirely or partially red.

Their tongues were picked out in emperor’s children, their eyes and noses were painted abaddon black, and their collars mournefang brown.

Another unit done, painted in exactly the same way as the previous infantry units.

These have been painted in the same way as before, except the characters are entitled to a bit more colour. The horse is magical and so is pure white. The characters want only the best so have fur and feathers from magical animals (i.e. are all white) and when they have the option of extra cloth they choose red, also a colour associated with magical creatures.

The whites were painted celestra grey, drybrushed ulthuan grey then highlighted with white scar.

The red cloth was painted mephiston red, washed carroburg crimson, then highlighted with evil sunz scarlet followed by wild rider red.

Nothing new with the paintjob here – just another unit completed.

That’s all the units of infantry done. Just some characters to go.

The druid came from the Warlord characters set. I added a mask with brown stuff then painted him in the same way I painted my other characters.

The warp twisted is a Darklands model with a bulging eye sculpted on, again using brown stuff. He was painted in the usual way, except the skin was finished with a watered down glaze of bloodletter.

The giantess is a 3D print from Titan Forge’s Wildwood Sanctum range. As the leader of my force she gets a colour unique to her: green. The green was painted waaagh! flesh, washed athonian camoshade, then highlighted with warboss green then nurgling green.