Draconis does…. Kings of War Vanguard

3rd September 2023

Like the other restic minis, the Butchers had their base flesh tone already laid down. I had added some of the pink contrast over the tentacle areas to give it some different tonality.

Then it was a relatively basic process of detailing the mouth, picking out the blue tongue and painting in the teeth. And also painting their fur underpants in a black with grey highlights.

Next it was onto the weapons. I gave them a silver base coat, then applied a rust look by overpainting them in a thinned mix of orange and brown. This was folloed with a drybrush of silver, and some highlights and scratch marks in a brighter silver.

Finishing touches were painting the claws in black, with a follow up gloss varnish. And painting in the weapon handles that I missed on the earlier stages.

The gap filling was a mixed end result. Some parts covered really well, and others I clearly didn’t add quite enough filler, or smooth it well enough.

Forgot to post this up at the weekend….

10^th September 2023

Its been a bit of a while.  I haven’t been able to get very much hobby in over the past week or so due to work, and being on standby, and various other sundry blockers – including the very heavy weather.

However, I did manage a couple of short sessions in the week.

In the first I decided to make one of the scarecrows into the ranged version grunt.  By taking off the weapon arm and using one of the tentacle arms.  Then I also did a bit of gap filling around the head with milliput.

Next short session was enough to lay down some basic skin tones on the minions. Went with the pink contrast again, to have a common theme with the rest of the warband. Where they had tentacles I painted these in a blue contrast, and tried wet blending the two together with the aid of contrast medium again. Worked relatively well I think.

16th September 2023

Next up for these chaps was getting down some colour on their clothing.

I went for greens greys and browns overall, with ivory for some of the bandage type sections.

I also gave some of the clothes a light drybrush with the ivory to make them look worn.

Then I finished them off by picking out weapon hafts and handles, painting the blades (adding a small amount of orange brown wash to age them), and doing their faces.  The standard blue tongues, and picking out the teeth so they stand out.

So, the warband is pretty much done.

Just need to do some work on the basing, and for that I have some new tufts on the way (from OnTabletop store).

I also may have to pick up some more scarecrows….

22^nd September 2023

Since the last update I cracked open the Northern Alliance box, and began work on the minis.

Starting with the restic minis again (I like to get the restic ones cleaned first, as they are harder work).  I cleaned and prepped them as best as my patience and eyesight would allow.

Apparently Chuck Norris once cleaned all the mould lines from a restic mini…. Once…..

22nd September 2023

This week my new tufts arrived, so between other bits I added them to the nightstalkers.

I give you the group photoshoot of the gribbly fellows

22^nd September 2023

After the restic it was on to the plastics this past week.  I was looking forward to these after the clean up on the restic, but there was actually a fair amount of clean up required here too.

These are an older kit, so the details at the sides go a little ‘soft’. They are crisp at the front, but suffer from the older plastic casting, that mantic seem to have gotten past now by changing their manufacturers.

There are ten bodies, in five designs, and the same applies to the rest. Ten spears, five designs and ten hand weapons in five designs. I decided to go for five with spear and five with hand weapon, so that each could have a different weapon sculpt.

Ten shields in five designs as well, meaning that models had to have duplicated shields – so I made sure that I didn’t have the same shield on the same body, just to maintain variety.

There are also four female heads out of the ten, and with the heavily clothed bodies they can work on any of them – which is good.

So, here they are assembled. (Two backpacks to add)

I think they look pretty nice all together ?

23rd September 2023

When I first picked up my KoW Vanguard stuff I did actually build and paint one of the warbands. The forces of the Abyss are the warband that I first purchased, and the first things that I tried out red contrast on ?

I just thought that I would share some pictures of this warband here in my Vanguard project.

1st October 2023

With a short break away, and other things, I have had limited progress.

But, I have done some of my basic sand and gravel basing on the Northern Alliance. Then sealed them with a thinned down coat of pva.

And given them an undercoat and zenithal spray of black to white.