Lupa15’s Spring Cleaning 2020

By and far the largest miniature in my collection is about halfway finished if not more. I posted a ton of details on how I painted him here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1551935/

But I did want to highlight something I learned that I may have to apply when painting other projects in the future, especially metal ones:
“One thing I learned while trying to block these colors is that wearing a glove on the hand that is holding the miniature eliminates accidentally rubbing off paint. I am not sure if it is the oils on my hand or something else but I kept rubbing of the Eshin Grey paint from the spines. As soon as the glove was used I had no longer had any problems.”

I needed a little break from painting the bases on the Mournflight.  I dug through my boxes and found a partially painted Nephilim Soldier from Privateer Press’ Hordes.  I also cracked out my largest miniature in my display case with the goal of finishing it over the next few weeks.

I started out by painting Lady Harrow’s Mournflight. The first step was to undercoat the miniatures with Corax White.  Following the undercoat a wash of Nihilakh Oxide would provide the ghostly glow.  Finally once wash was dry I generously drybrushed the miniatures with Ulthuan Grey and followed that up with a lighter drybrush of White Scar.

I think for the arms and skulls I am going to utilize the same colors but use a layering and highlighting technique rather than a drybrush.

I was able to complete everything but the black armor and black cloth.  I was thinking about using some mixtures using Eshin Grey but found that my pot of paint had dried out since I had last used it.

With the coronavirus pandemic not yet over I still have more time than I ever did to paint.  So despite the contest being over I am still painting a bunch of backlogged miniatures. So as spring cleaning morphs into summer cleaning and likely fall cleaning I will continue to update this project with updates along the way.

This week was quite productive! First I finished the Blue Horrors, then moved on to finishing the face and hair of Alexis Polux, and finally finished Eldrad!

Once I sealcoat Eldrad I will apply  some ‘ardcoat to give the gems a little shine.

I finished two of the blue horrors!  After finishing the teeth, gold and silver I am happy with how they turned out.

Additionally I revisited Eldrad finishing his armor, bone runes and black cloaks.

Since he is mostly finished I glued him to his base as well.

To continue with the half finished miniatures piling up on my desk I decided to start painting these blue horrors from Warhammer Quest Silver Tower.

I found an old Warhammer painting article that suggested using a Drakenhof Nightshade wash and then a Druchii Violet wash over a basecoat of Caledor Sky.  After the washes were dry I recoated the raised bits with Caledor Sky and then highlighted them with some Teclis Blue.

Additionally I dived into painting Alexis Polux, the Crimson Fist captain of the Imperial Fists.  I did some research before hand on how to paint Imperial Fists and everyone was suggesting a Yriel Yellow base. I found that was way to bright and went back to the drawing board.

After some mulling I decided to use a base of Averland Sunset and Yriel Yellow at a 50-50 mix.  I washed the receesses with Reikland Fleshshade and then used Yriel Yellow as a highlight.  Then very carefully highlighted the edges with Dorn Yellow.

Following lots of painting yellow I decided to take a break and paint his base. I kind of just went off the fly and unfortunately don’t remember the exact paints I used but I started with Warplock Bronze and did several drybrushes to get to a rusted metal look before washing it with Agrax Earthshade to give it an extra dingy look.