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Done is Better Than Perfect – A Forbidden Psalm

Done is Better Than Perfect – A Forbidden Psalm

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About the Project

With limited time to spend on my hobbies I struggle to get to a point where I can actually play a game. I get stuck in a loop of buying miniatures for a game but only having time to paint two or three a month and then switching focus to something else which has caught my interest. So for this year’s Spring Cleaning Challenge I decided I would get enough miniatures painted to play Forbidden Psalm.

This Project is Completed

The Setup

Tutoring 8
Skill 8
Idea 10
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Being late to the game I started this challenge at the beginning of June. In order to complete my task I would need to come up with a novel approach. I would be playing Forbidden Psalm solo so I don’t need to worry about rules regarding painting styles and I wouldn’t have anyone to impress. I am not a good painter, nor am I quick, so with 40+ models to get done in a couple of weekends I needed to try something different.
In the end I took my inspiration from the rule book itself. The art style for Forbidden Psalm is in the Mörk Borg style which was a big draw for me and it offered a very quick option for a painting style.

The Setup

The Models

Tutoring 8
Skill 9
Idea 10
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Forbidden Psalm is miniature agnostic and encourages kit bashing and modelling to build your characters. I didn’t have the time or the skill to get creative so I started building several sets of Warcry miniatures to use for my group of adventurers and to play the role of the monsters I would be up against.

The Models

For a quick and easy base I used a mixture of fine and course sand held on with PVA and covered with a PVA and water mixture to fix it all in place.

The Models

The Paint “Scheme”

Tutoring 7
Skill 7
Idea 8
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Based on the artwork of the rule book I gave  each model a zenithal highlight prime. I went heavy on the white highlight to enhance the next phase.

The Paint “Scheme”

Next I used The Army Painter washes and Citadel shades to paint each model. I picked a different colour for each faction so that they could also be used to play Warcry in the future. To get enough colour options I also used some Reaper paints, medium, water, and dish soap to make additional washes.

I added some citadel skulls for the “Bone Desert” bases with some Army Painter Dead Grass tufts.
Finally, I picked my favourite model from each of the factions to form my party and painted the base rim a dimmed gold to differentiate them from the other models on the table.

The Paint “Scheme”

The Result

Tutoring 4
Skill 5
Idea 7
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With 54 miniatures painted and based I have completed this project ahead of my target. It roughly took something like 20-ish hours and this is a very loose interpretation of painted.

The Result

Ultimately though the goal of this project was not about painting. It was about breaking out of the “model paralysis” and getting to play a new game. So tomorrow “The Black Flesh Corp” will head out to gather some mushrooms for a mad wizard’s tea and hopefully not get murderised by ghouls and a Corpse Collector.

The Result

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