Seldon9 is Painting Conquest – The Old Dominion

The Old Dominion have some spirit-like units they can take as light infantry. The sprue can build both the Kheres and Moroi. Unfortunately I don’t have the colours listed and the progress pics weren’t so good.

I didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Preshade and contrast mainly for this. The Kheres models had some magical effects which I added more white around for the OSL.

The smoky, lower body was just preshaded and tinted with blues and purples.

Clothing was just preshaded and painted with contrast for both the Kheres and Moroi.

Metal parts were just base coated with more faded metallics and I tried to blend Silver and Steel on the knife blades.

Skin was worked up from dark green to a light, almost luminous colour and shaded with a purple oil wash.

The OSL spell effects were progressions of yellow, orange and red applied with both brush and airbrush.

The Legionnaires and Praetorians come on the same sprue. I wanted a reasonably quick way to paint them and this was my first method.

Fraid I can’t find the colours I originally used. I began by undercoating them with a dark blue sprayed from the bottom up and darkish brown leather colour from top to bottom.

Next I took the following steps:

• Paint the armour with Vallejo Metal Color Steel.
• Paint Contrast Blood Angels Red on the red areas.
• Paint face masks white.
• Dab white, Vallejo Cavalry Brown (70.982), Scale75 Sky Blue (SC-50) and various metallics on shields and other weapons.

Dabbing paints just meant using sponges, dry brushes and brush tips to make paint marks. It’s all to give an old, wasted look.

I added a little sepia wash at the base of the shields. Then I chucked a purple oil wash over the troops.

I wasn’t overly taken with this scheme. It took too long and didn’t quite feel right to me. But I needed this inital set done so I pushed on with it.

The Old Dominion is a blasted hell scape ruined by the mad god Hazlia newly allied with death. There’s nothing alive there except for some very driven individuals inspired by Hazlia searching for bodies and materials to animate for Hazlia’s undead army.

So the basing won’t be too labourious. I plan to give character stands an individual, scenic base but I’ll detail those individually. For now, I need a quick, general scheme.

It’s an old favourite. Spread dark, basing paste on all the bases. I use Vallejo but it doesn’t really matter. Let that dry then I apply three sets of Vallejo pigments roughly. On the square ranking bases I do the following:

• First Vallejo Burnt Umber (73.110) over about 3/4 of the base leaving the front right corner clear.
• Second I go over most of the base with Dark Red Ocher (73.107).
• Finally I use Rust (73.117) on the half of the base with one corner clear of the first pigment.

The individual, circular bases get a similar spread though they tend to be more of a jumble.

Once the pigments are done I drip airbrush thinner over the pigments to use as a fixative. When that’s dried I apply matt varnish to finish.

I never apply gloss varnish over raw pigments. Any glossing is done before pigments. Pigments just look weird under gloss.

Conquest miniatures generally come in groups of four to a stand. Each is also individually based for use in the First Blood skirmish game. Originally we removed figures from a base as they took damage but in v2 we just mark damage.

For storage I plan to use magnetic basing. So, I magnetised the rank base with a 5mm x 4mm magnet.

Next up I magnetised each miniature’s individual base with a 3mm x 1mm magnet. Then each slot on the ranking base got a 5mm x 1mm. The early bases were a pain to set up but newer bases have some guide slots that make this easier.