Silver Bayonet 1850

Loup Garou is French for werewolf.  In this game he is the biggest werewolf and leader of the wolf-kin in the region.  He is always accompanied by his loyal dire wolves.

Painting is largely Gravelord Grey with some Grim Black wet blended on the big guy.  Red ink for the eye glow and some orange fluro paint to highlight the eye.  Claws and teeth in Pallid Bone with a Bonewhite highlight.

Again with the mob – still not fancying their chances.

Mierce make a big bear so that was sent for in the last sale too.  These Mierce castings are great.  Loot at how well they fitted together and how little greenstuff was needed – head, jaw,and all four legs were separate to start off with.

Once here it got the usual zenith undercoat and then on with the wet blending.  I started with Dark Wood on the low lights and Dusk Red on the highlights but this was a bit too pinky so swithched to Satchel Brown.  Blending with more medium allows the brighter zenith to come through more, even against the dark brown.  The muzzle and mouth were left and Howling Sand was used on the muzzle and blended back into the brown on the face.  Murder Scene is the colour in the mouth.  Teeth were Pallid Bone.  Then out came the standard acrylics with black for the nose and lips, Ivory on the teeth to highlight and finally a light and rather patchy drybrush of Dheneb Stone on the fur.  Basing sceme as previous.

You’ve got to give it to the mob – those chaps have got some pluck.  Don’t rate their chances in this one either though.

The mysterious librarian is a font of arcane knowledge and parties of adventurers seek his council when faced with the strange and unknown.  Perhaps they should be careful of the knowledge he shares for who knows what his agenda really is, or indeed who actually owns the library that he is the guardian of.

Ral Partha did 3 part character minis for Call of Cthulhu with your character starting out as their sane self and then descending into first a deranged and then a fully insane stage.  I only had the Doctor.  I’ve never been able to figure out which of the two more troubled stages is which for this character.  I always assumed that the one in the hat was the deranged/paranoid stage and the surgeon stage was fully insane, maybe someone can enlighten me?

They are truer 25mm scale but come on a very thick puddle base so look fine next to the 28mm minis I’m using in this project.  Again largely Speedpaints 2.0.  Tyrian Navy featuring here with the apron being Thunderbird Blue.

I bought these on eBay when someone else was selling off all of their Frostgrave.  If that was you – thanks very much, I’m very happy with them.

I have added a bit of my snow scatter to their exisitng snow bases and reapinted the rims in Astronomican Grey.

If you are interested in the history of these sculpts which are back in production on the North Star site again, check it out on their Facebook.

There was a post in the Forums about Heresy miniatures needing a bit of support.  I’d admired their Ghouls for some time and knew that they were now in Siocast after a Kickstarter some time ago.  I like the quality of Siocast minis after seeing so many from the Warlord Slaine range so was very happy to order some from Heresy finally.

Needless to say very happy.  A bit of cleaup on a couple but the sculpting is great.  New Speedpaints again and this time we went with Brownish Decay with intermittent splashes of Maggot Skin or other skintones to add a bit of variety.  Lighter dead fleshtone from Rigor Mortis which is perfect.  Some dark purple in mouths and cut meat ends from Murder Scene, bones were Pallid Bone.  I’ve changed base edges to Citadel Foundation Astronomicon Grey as I was fed up with the time taken to get a dense enough tone using white.

A couple of others added to this group.  First is a big ghoul from Mierce.  He is probably twice the size of a regular one and will add a bit of extra punch to this group in combat.  Same paint scheme.

NSFW alert here as this is the Gripping Beast Grendel mini who will also be a ghoul character.  Same paint scheme again.

Finished the big bad.  Dry brushed the skin with IDF Sand Grey over the brown bits, Citadel Foundation Astronomicon Grey over the grey bits and a blend of the two over the greener or intermediate bits.  Then the mouth got a dry brush of Vallejo Model Colour Beige Red with some stippled highlights along the edge of the tongue.

Then basing.  I’m sticking to the snow scatter which I’ve got.  I put some pieces of slate down first for a bit of texture and painted the base white and the tops of the stones where the snow was going to go.  Base rim also in white, several coats – coverage is rubbish.

Varnished with Mr Hobby Flat Matt spraycan and then gloss varnish in the mouth and over the gums.  Done.

And for those of you wondering about size it is listed as 101mm tall, that is a 100mm base it’s on.  Lunch has arrived.

I invested in some Mierce miniatures in the recent sale.  They really are as beautiful as they look on the webstore.  Looking for a big bad for a final encounter I spotted this chap and though – that’s the one.

First the build.  As you can see went together easily with minimal filling required.  Heres were a couple of hours got us to on Saturday:

On Sunday I did the zenithed undercoat.  This needed to dry so no more work until the next night.

Tonight I’ve been painting the front room so only had about an hour and a half.  Decided to pick out some of the new Speedpaints and go for a wet blend.  Started with a base of Mummified Grime with lowlights in Noble Skin and highlights in Burnt Moss.  Once this was on blended in some Brownish Decay to give his skin some variety and make him a bit more dirty green/brown.  Then on to the mouth with a couple of drops of Slaughter Red thinned out with mediumfor the gums and then darkened down with Noble Skin and the Brownish Decay for some variety.  Finally on to the teeth which started with a blend of Ruddy Fur, Bony Matter and a drop of Sand Golem.  I then separately had some Pallid Bone with a drop of medium.  Heavy coats of the darker tone were applied at at the base of teeth.  Palid bone went on the other ends and then blended towards the darker tone to maintain the steep colour gradient.  Finally claws were very similar but the darker tone was supplemented with a drop of Brownish Decay.  A wipe with the finger across the highlight areas on teeth and claws, a dot or two of thinned Warrior Skin onto the body for tone variety and a couple of very thin splashes of Slaughter Red for dried blood and this is where we got to.

Gotta say for the time taken I’m pretty happy with it so far.  Needs a look in the light and a careful drybrushed highlight in some places and a bit of fleshtone in the mouth but I’m nearly done.  Gotta love Speedpaints.  This is the original paintwork from Mierce.  I think I’m getting there.