Gaz’s Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2020

So who are the minis?

I have Andrea, Billy & Ben from the Prison Sniper booster

Tyrese and Raymond from the Prison Advisor booster

And of course, a couple of walkers too.

The plan is to use some contrasts to see where the light and dark points are and then a little extra work to clean them up with layer paints and shades. I want to average around 2-2:30 hrs per mini max for paint and then will collectively base them at the end. I wish to record each one and stick it on the YouTube channel I have set up for myself called TheAverageMiniaturePainter.

So I guess we break out the brushes tomorrow!

So got my first mini painted this morning, Tyreese from the Walking Dead.

So a quick break down of what and where.

Riot Gear

• Black Templar Contrast
• Eshin Grey Layer
• Dawnstone Layer
• Dawnstone Layer 50:50 White Scar Layer highlight in places.

Helmet Visor (same as the riot gear for the black)

• Dawnstone 50:50 Lahmian Medium
• Stage 1 mix 75:25 White Scar Layer
• Stage 2 mix 75:25 White scar Layer
• White Scar Layer 50:50 Lahmian Medium
• Drakenhof Nightshade Shade 50:50 Lahmina Medium
• A final highlight with stage 4

Face and Hammer Handle

• Rhinox Hide Base (a couple of thinned layers)
• Rhinox Hide Base 50:50 Dryad Bark base
• Dryad Bark Base highlight (3-4 layers highlighting brow/cheeks,nose/jawline
• Mournfang Brown Layer (lips)
• Pallid Wych Flesh (eyes)
• Carroburg Crimson Shade (eyes)
• Teclis Blue Layer (eye colour, no pupil I’m not that brave)

Hammer Head

• Templar Black Contrast
• Mechanicus Standard Grey Base (highlight)
• White Scar Layer (edge highlight)
• Leadbelcher Base (thinned down highlight)
• Sotrmhost Silver Layer (edge highlight)
• Nuln Oil Shade 50:50 Lahmina Medium

Cheers for reading guys and happy hobbying everyone!

So got another mini painted today, Raymond from the Walking Dead.

A quick break down of what and where.

(C) Contrast (L) Layer (S) Shade (B) Base

Shoes

• Basilicanum Grey (C)
• Mechanicus Standard Grey (L) highlight
• Nuln Oil (S) wash

Trousers

• Ultramarines Blue (C)
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Calgar Blue (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Drakenhof Nightshade (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas

Shirt

• Blood Angels Red (C)
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Evil Sunz Scarlet (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Carroburg Crimson (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas

T-Shirt

• Apothecary White
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 White Scar (L) highlight
• White Scar (L)

Hair

• Yriel Yellow (L)
• Reikland Fleshshade (S)

Skin

• Bugmans Glow (B)
• Reikland Fleshade (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Bugmans Glow (B) highlight
• Stage 3 75:25 Cadian Fleshtone (L) highlight
• Stage 4 75:25 Cadian Fleshtone (L) highlight

Cap

• Basilicanum Grey (C) + Blood Angels Red (C)
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Mechanicus Standard Grey (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Evil Sunz Scarlet (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Nuln Oil (S) grey area only . Wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas

Eyes

• Pallid Wych Flesh (L)
• Carroburg Crimson (S) wash just the area of stage 1
• Warpstone Glow (L) pupils

Belt

• Rhinox Hide (B) leather + Abaddon Black (B) buckle
• Dryad Bark (B) leather + Mechanicus Standard Grey (L) highlight
• No further work on the leather + Pallid Wych Flesh (L) highlight

Gun

• Basilicanum Grey (C)
• Mechanicus Standard Grey (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Nuln Oil (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas
• Mechanicus Standard Grey (L) highlight

I have taken to sets of photos to show the flat colours before the wash, admittedly the Contrasts paints have already given the mini some depth and then the second photos are after the wash. To me, this is the difference between comic style strong colours and toned down more real-world colours. Each has their place and its great that it is so easy now to do.

Cheers for reading guys and happy hobbying everyone!

A quick break down of what and where.

Sprayed Black and given a Wraithbone Zenith

(C) Contrast (L) Layer (S) Shade (B) Base (T) Technical

Boots

• Black Templar (C)
• Mechanicus Standard Grey (L) highlight
• Nuln Oil (S) wash
• Stormhost Silver (L) buckles highlight, with another application of stage 3 after

Leggings

• Apocathery White (C)
• White Scar (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Drakenhof Nightshade (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas

Under Shirt

• Volupus pink (C)
• Pink Horror (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Carroburg Crimson (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas

Jacket

• Magos Purple (C)
• Emperor’s Children (L) highlight
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Carroburg Crimson (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas

Hair

• Rhinox Hide (B) thinned wash
• Tallarn Sand (L) highlight

Skin

• Pallid Wych Flesh (L)
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Carroburg Crimson (S) wash and a second layer in the shadowed areas
• Pallid Wych Flesh (L) highlight

Glasses and Hair Bobble (that’s how you spell ‘bobble’ right?)

• Evil Sunz Scarlet (L)
• Lahmian Medium 50:50 Carroburg Crimson (S) wash

Hood

• Apocathery White (C)
• White Scar (L) highlight

Blood Effect (various areas)

• Blood for the Blood God

This was a good learning experience for me and allowed me to get my second use of the Blood for the Blood God technical which I am a big fan of. Hope you all are doing okay and I am looking forward to getting my first little goal finished and then decide on the next one.

Cheers for reading guys and happy hobbying everyone!

Another mini joins the force for the upcoming Sitrep Podcast 13 Days = 13 Hours. I have a few more on the way in the post but looking forward to seeing how they do when the game goes ahead.

If you want to see a tutorial of the whole process check out one of the links below and see it go from primed to finished.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/578417556

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rVP-4A4nFo