Resolution 2022: Hobby Bingo!

These are the first of a new project for me. I decided to give 10mm a try. The Wood Elf range from Forest Dragon look really good so I printed them out.

Instead of 10 28mm human sized figures I reckon 11 strips of 10mm figures is equivalent.

The bases are milliput that are textured with a tool.

The models were undercoated wraithbone. The entire models were then painted skeleton horde to give me the brown base colour and also to help me pick out the details for future colours.

The cloaks were painted snakebite leather, and boots and select clothing were painted wyldwood. Flags and strips of cloth were painted gore-grunta fur. Metal spear tips and shields were painted basilicanum grey. Skin was painted guilliman flesh and hair was painted iyanden yellow.

The bases were painted militarum green and then the edges were painted castellan green.

I think once the army is painted up I may flock the bases, but for now I’ll just leave them painted.

I knocked these out in one sitting last night while watching a string of shows. All painted the same as the spearmen, except the horses are painted with apothecary white.

Some more infantry done – this time some skirmishers.

These are just wyldwood with some flash gitz yellow in the recesses to add some colour. I wanted a contrasting colour that was also autumnal to tie in with the rest of my force’s colour scheme. Blue would be wintery, red would look like fire, green too verdant and spring-like. So yellow it was.

My final 10mm entry for a while. Painted as before.

I’m about half way through the force but the rest still need basing so I think I’ll work on some different projects for a while.

This is a 3D print. Lamashtu from the Beauty and the Beast kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printomancer/beauty-and-the-beast-stl-files-3d-models/description).

I used the same colour recipes as Lilith (see a few entries back in this project), except I wanted a jet back skin tone. For this I started with a layer of black templar contrast. I then layered on abbadon black, with highlights of mechanicus standard grey followed by dawnstone. I then washed all the skin with nuln oil.

I wanted all the metal areas to look like silver rather than iron, so I painted them leadbelcher followed by highlights of ironbreaker then runefang steel.

I backed the kisckstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curis/roknaut-space-dwarf-28mm-sci-fi-wargames-and-rpg-miniatures/description) in the first production run and had the models at my house a couple of days after the campaign ended.

I enjoyed the primary and secondary colour schemes used in the models on show and decided to go with the only one not yet used – namely yellow and purple.

The purple was naggaroth night washed druchii violet, then highlighted xereus purple followed by genestealer purple.

The yellow was iyanden darksun, washed casandora yellow, then highlighted flash gitz yellow.

The skin was bugman’s glow, washed reikland fleshshade, then highlighted cadian fleshtone followed by kislev flesh.

The browns were painted mournefang brown, washed agrax earthshade, then highlighted skragg brown and then deathclaw brown.

The metalics were painted leadbelcher, washed nuln oil, then highlighted leadbelcher followed by runefang steel.

Beards were either abaddon black highlighted skavenblight dinge, celestra grey highlighted ulthuan grey, or xv-86 highlighted tausept ochre.

My goblin green dried up many years ago so the bases had to be moot green.

Some 3D prints I printed last year when working on my Dweghom project that I never got around to painting (https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1567993/).

The models were undercoated grey seer except for the tree bodies which were undercoated caliban green.

The tree trunks were painted wylwood and the stone basilicanum grey.

The trees were drybrushed  hellion green.

I then touched up the ropes and runes with grey seer, as well as painting the areas of snow.

Then the ropes were painted skeleton horde and the runes talassar blue.

The models were finished by painting the snow areas with PVA then applying snow effects.