Dungeonalia – Necrothrall does Drow (and other beasties)

I’ve painted up some scatter. Some of this came with the mantic wagon (and it fits quite nicely in the back), the rest I got in my advent calendar last year. My camera didn’t quite pick out the colour of the fish in the barrels, but trust me they’re slightly blue.

I’ve acquired a few wagons for this scenario, after all a merchant caravan needs well a caravan.  The 4 wheel one is from Great Escape Games, the 2 wheel with the horse is from Mantic and the the last one is a 3d print my mate Rob gave me.

For the base for the wood I used stonewall grey (vallejo), which I washed with agrax earthshade.  Once that was dry I gave them a quick drybrush with stonewall grey again. For the metal parts I just used a dark brown. The cloth was done with canvas (vallejo) which was washed with agrax again.

Here’s some medieval villagers that I  got from Footsore.  My scenario starts with the party fending off drow ambushing a merchant caravan, so I need some victims. The child is the main hook in the scenario, basically he’s going to get kidnapped.

I started them with a white prime, and then painted any exposed skin. Now my idea of medieval peasants is that they should be wearing a lot of bright colours. So that’s exactly what I did. I slopped on various contrast paints, now I need sunglasses to look at them.  Mission accomplished, I guess.

I gave the whole miniature a couple of thin coats of stonewall grey (vallejo). It’s a nice light grey that takes contrast well.

The skin got a coat of magos purple, the same as the other drow.

The dress was done with leviadon blue. The spider web design was picked out with mystic white (greenstuff world).

The bowl of blood and severed heads (that must be heavy) was done with balthasar gold and washed with reikland flesh shade. I painted the elf heads up to look like above grounders. The blood was done with flesh tearers red, which I then gave a coat of blood for the blood god to make it look wet.

The belts on the scourge were given a coat of Snakebite Leather.  The metallic parts were also done with balthasar gold, which was again washed with reikland flesh shade.  Then I dropped her and snapped a couple of the weights off the scourge, which disappeared into the ether.

To finish the warriors I glued some basing material from Geek Gaming Scenics to the bases and sealed them with a mix of pva, ipa and water. I went with the arid grasslands mix because its a nice neutral colour blend with some nice variety to it.

For the base of the drow priestess I clarted leviathan purple over the whole thing. Once that dried I gave it several drybrushes of gradually lighter greys.

1. The rest of  the drow that I got from Rob. These were painted up in the same manner as the crossbow drow. The only difference was the shields, which were done with balthasar gold, washed with a green and drybrushed with more balthasar gold.

I finally got the drow dungers from Rob. I started with the skin, which was a magos purple contrast over a light grey. I also blocked in the fabric, which I alternated between black, dark blue and dark purple contrasts.

Next I did all the metallic in a gunmetal, which got a heavy wash of nuln oil. Then I gave all the boots, belts and gloves a coat of cygor brown contrast. Finally I tackled the hair. This was just a light grey covered in apothecary white, then lightly drybrushed with the same grey followed by white.