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Oathsworn power painting challenge

Oathsworn power painting challenge

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Project Blog by robojoel Cult of Games Member

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About the Project

I got my copy of Oathsworn delivered on Sunday and BOY are the sculpts great!! We are playing out first game on Saturday. I was too hung over on Sunday to do anything so that gives me FIVE DAYS to get everything ready for game one! I'm documenting this day by day with my progress. Fortunately (or unfortunately come Monday....) I'm a teacher so I have all week off so I'm in with a chance! I'll show completed pieces and give a bit of info on how I did them, so as not to repeat myself everything is undercoated black then zenithil light grey then white and finally dry brushed white ? EDIT:SPOILERS I'll be adding in the bosses as we do them. I'll have two weeks to complete each one before our gaming sessions!

This Project is Completed

ANOTHER boss I did and forgot to add here! Giant molusc!

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This guy was nasty.

I actually spent a long time painting him as I could not quite get colours I liked. I tried to get a balance between kind of disgusting garish and natural. Failing both in equal measure.

We killed him anyway so it’s all irrelevant…..

More Heroes

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I’ve been gradually doing the heroes in between bosses. I kind of forgot I had done them but just finished the Curv which reminded me about the others.

Lots of NMM on the preist and warrior guy (I can’t remember his actual name haha)

Just finished the Cur and I challenged myself to make him all in dark stuff (he is an assassin you see….) but still make him pop a bit through tactical bright patches and edging. I actually enjoyed this and did him to completion, then black oil wash which added definition but also took down the brightest tones turning me to redo the light sections and it looked WAY better than originally.

Now can I bring myself to stop playing my trusty Penitent and become one of these guys? I fancy a go on the witch!

Pyromancer Witch

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Pyromancer Witch

This was quite quick to paint using contrast paints over zenithil. The figure itself was pretty simple so didn’t take long. I love snakebite leather, it’s one of my go to paints that I find is really vibrant and fits a lot of work for you.

The flames I just basically airbrushed, starting with white then moving to yellow, orange, red, dark brown black.

I think it looks ok, not sure about the placement of the colours on the flames, kind of wish I had followed the contours more closely!

As a boss she was an absolute bitch and we scraped through with only one hero left in one hit point!!

Phew

Chapter 16-big scabby boy

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This guy was full of texture and pretty easy to paint. Just a mixture of contrast, washes and inking. The model pretty much took care of itself.

The fight was absolutely brutal and 3 of us got knocked out!

Giant spider

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This guy was a lovely model. I tried to get some nice contrast between oranges and purple. Pretty pleased how the eggs on her back turned out, I airbrushed them individually then speckled then with white which accidently looked a bit like stars!

Reincarnated tribal boss

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This was another tribal guy that had mutated so I used pretty much the same technique as before for his living tribes fellows!

Reincarnated tribal boss

Keening the witch

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Pretty boring model to be honest.

Was quick to do, tried to make her look pasty and evil haha

The fight was an absolute nightmare and we won by the skin of our teeth!

Keening the witch

Final boss

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So this was a big boy!

A big heavy old peice of plastic!

It was a lot quicker and easier to paint that I thought. Undercoated black I then build up some later r on the main areas, green for the body, brown for the bark, purple/pink for the tentacles, red for the bulbous growths on the back and bone white for the head and horns.

I did an all over oil wash in dark versions of these then tidied up with a brush to rehilight.

I actually could have done a lot more and edge hilighted and stippled extra texture but I was actually happy with it as it was so decided to leave it!

Fight was super tough and it came down to the last character Alive on one hit point with one final attack that needed (we thought) to do three damage. There were groans as the werebear only did two. We then realised that just before this when my penitant died I forgot to play my instant which would have reflected the damage back so he should have been on two hit points and therefore we had won! Just by the skin of our teeth.

What an amazing game, took us just over a year to complete!

Really happy with how the painting turned out.

I’m now debating whether to keep it or sell I it on as it will be worth quite a bit to someone……

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