Arcworlde 2nd Edition Halflings

After successfully completing the green on the little guys it was time to do the green skin on the dragon.  I didn’t want to drybrush the highlights on him, I’ve always found drybrushed highlights on bigger models doesn’t work well if its a big contrast between the two colours.  So I edge highlighted all of the relevant edges on the skin.  Took an evening.   And then looking at it it was a very harsh jump from one to the other.

I dulled it down with the Thrakka green. It really made a difference:

At this point I had to pause, wasn’t entirely sure how I was going to highlight the green, and I wanted to sort this before doing the green on the big guy.  There was an awful lot of it, and I wanted to get it right.  I decided to experiment on the babies (I’m expecting a visit from the unethical treatment of fantasy creatures any day now)

You’ll notice I have done the eyes on the big guy.  This was because it was easier to do now and if i sploshed yellow about or screwed up the black pupil it would be easier to sort if there werent highlights in and around the eyes.  I painted them orange, then yellow closer to the centres then a black line for the pupil (I cheat and use a black 0.1mm fineliner pen for eyes).  Finally a small white dot on the yellow to represent a reflection and then a gloss varnish coat to give the idea of a wet sheen

This isn’t a guide on how to paint your dragon, I hasten to add!  It was a terrible pun on the book name ‘How to Train your Dragon’    This post is about how I painted my dragons.

Some of the pictures were in the earlier post ‘Here be Dragons’ but shhhhh, no one will know if we don’t tell them.  I’ve also edited the pictures so they are now in the correct format (for your knowledge, the OTT forum doesn’t like portrait pictures much).

All of the dragons were given a Rhinox Hide spray undercoat, for two reasons, one This resin likes rattle cans better than the vallejo airbrush primer and two, I wanted a dark brown colour to give a more earthy look

Anyhoo, enough rambling, time for some pictures

..well not a filler, but about filling.  Once I’d glued them together and swore at myself for creating gaps, I started to fill the gaps with greenstuff and attempted to match the detailing (no sculptor I!!!) I also added a few more rocks to the big dragons base, it’s 120mm across so the big flat areas would look big and flat.  I used milliput for this, something I’m terrible with.  It was just roughly circular bits blobbed down, kind of shaped and then textured by pushing a stone into it.  Did the trick, as you’ll see in the painting bit in the next post

Now, my sculpting/filling skills are weak so on the final models in a couple of places you can see a bit of a seam, I always forget green stuff shrinks but it’s not too bad.  Still, that was them built.  They then waited a while whilst I painted the halflings.

Next post is about ruining the sculpts with my haphazard painting

This post is a bit of a visit to earlier in the project.  I built all the models at the same time, so these build pictures are from a while ago

First is the components and how they looked glued together before filling.  There was very little in the way of cleanup on any of the detail.  The gates were generally on bits out of site or that would be inside a join

Once they were built there was a bit of gap filling to do.  Mainly because I was over zealous when filing down the gates from production

As well as the halflings, and the dragons (more on them soon!!!) I got a free troggle (think raccoon troll) as well as the Explorer and his magical Journal.  The Explorer is basically the person who describes the world.  The fluff is written from his point of view.  He’s a wizard and the floating book is a spell book.  In the game he can be used as a mercenary for any force.

Other bits I got for the game were the rule book, a set of tarot cards (used for magic spells), some mdf tokens and some resin/plastic (No idea which) Arcanite tokens, used for some scenarios.  Using up some resin bases I had knocking about I mounted the Arcanite onto them, just to give them a nicer look when put on the battlefield as an objective.  I also discovered if you mix creed camo contrast and talasaar blue, you get a good green-blue mix perfect to give the impression of Arcanite

Next up will be dragons!  They are done but I want to post them up as a step by step type thing

New Hewenden is a settlement on the border of Greater Hobbleshire and Scotstaine.  The town sends many parties into the Mildaark forest to claim Arcanite.  However the region isn’t always safe so the town has a large militia as well as a few employed town guards.

This is the last of the current militia, missing in action

And thats all of the second edition halflings painted.  Monsters and bits tomorrow