Saga Undead Vikings

I dropped a mini. Already painted. The shield popped off and the spear bent and popped off. I glued the spear back into his hand and it looked like he was holding the spear and a huge clod of earth. So I went with it, rather than strip the spear and hand back to metal and try again. I added some grass and some Typhus Corrosion to the area and an extra dab at the end as though he has fetched his spear from some mud.

This gave me the idea of adding grass to a shield and I am happy with the results.

These were a lot of fun to paint. The zenith did a lot of the work to getting them grimdark and grotty looking. The dry brush of Zandri Dust across all 4 minis allowed me apply Aggros Dune Contrast on one and and Reikland Fleshshade with a minimum of highlighting after. The other ones got a Deathguard Green coat and a Steel Legion Drab coat.

I started with some Army Painter Black Battleground flock and some brown Woodland floor flock (can’t remember the seller.). Black flock at the back half and brown at the front.

I used some green sponge pieces as shrubs and dotted on pink and white paint as flowers.

I bought some rubbish tufts ages ago. I cut them up because they were too big. The tufts were an ugly unnatural looking bottle green, but I added a Deathguard Green highlight to the top of the grass blades to improve the look. Then I painted the grass tuft at the rear of the base in black.

This was meant to represent the poisonous, life draining effect that reanimated corpses had on plants as they shambled through the countryside.

The only problem is a lack of contrast on the black grass and it gets lost in the shadows. I think I will highlight the tips of grass with silver paint. I think it will look more other worldly, perhaps frosty, like in horror movies where the warmth is sucked from a room in the presence of evil.

On the four of my minis with mail the Citadel wash Cryptek Armourshade has been a God send. The fact that whatever colour paint you put it over gives it a rusty / brassy tint was great. I didn’t need to do a metallic dry brush first. I just put it right over my Zandri Dust dry brush and then follow up with a metallic dry brush of a mix of Runelord Brass and Stormhost Silver. I picked out a few links with Jokaero Orange to push the rust effect and dabbed Typhus Corrosion and Blood for the Blood God technical paints wherever I felt the mail was too bright.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ragnarokminiatures/ragnarok-white-metal-28mm-norse-fantasy-miniatures

I got a small pledge with dwarves and draugr and it fulfilled well before the expected date.

I primed the draugr in black with a zenith of Army Painter Leather Brown. I just figured that would be a strong starting point. Then I dry brushed the 8 minis in Zandri Dust and decided on the next step.