Dungeon Delvers

I really like this model, an older more grizzled wizard. Who can be surprised that he has aged. Must be stressful ?.

skin – base shadow flesh, highlights tan flesh.

Shirt – ivory

hair – dark warm grey

boots/gloves/ shirt trim – bold pyrrole red

cape -dark grey blue

staff – mournfang brown (citadel)

knife – camo green

gold – rich gold

I love this one. Part of me wants to put him in the front rank of a unit.

shirt – bold pyrrole red

skin – base shadow flesh, highlights tan flesh.

beard – ivory

gloves – dark golden brown

boots – dark umber

belt/shield/ hammer handle – mournfang brown (citadel)

silver – dark silver

gold – Rich gold

Another great model such fun to paint.

skin – base shadow flesh, highlight tan flesh.

undershirt/trousers – Camo green

gloves/boots – dark golden brown

overshirt – sky blue

shirt trim – bold pyrrole red

hair zandri dust (citadel)

silver – dark silver

gold – rich gold

bow – ivory

Again very happy with how these turned out. They were great fun to paint. It was interesting to see how much the quality of the plastic miniatures improved in a relatively short space of time. Pretty happy with my first week of the project two classic parties complete ?

For my next party I thought I’d do something different. Adventure parties tend to be the good guys but surely there would be some unscrupulous types found looking for loot and treasure. I rooted around for some evil characters so I have a warrior and a barbarian from mierce miniatures, a Necromancer from frostgrave and an old chaos dwarf from GW. Looking forward to painting these and putting a different slant on the dungeon adventure party

I started painting my evil barbarian this week. His cloak is stitched together so I decided I would try to paint it as the flesh of his human victims Texas chainsaw style ?. I had no real idea how this would turn out as I had never really attempted something like this. I documented the process below.

step 1 base coat of pro acryl shadow flesh

step 2 A wash of citadel drukki violet followed by a light wash of army painter jump suit shader once dry.

step 3 Highlights were gradually applied by adding pro acryl tan flesh to the shadow flesh. I used a feathering motion in an attempt to add some texture

step 4 finally the stitching was picked out with citadel zandri dust.

I am really pleased with how it turned out and it was fun to try something new

This is a great model from mierce miniatures. It immediately got me thinking about narratives which to me means it’s a great mini. My thoughts were a deranged killer Micheal Myers style ? who relentlessly marches towards his victims. He was conditioned to be this way through being tortured in a dungeon over 20 years which accounts for his pale flesh. I’ll not go through all colours but just parts that may be of interest.

Skin: base coat purple, highlighted up by adding olive flesh, final highlight was ivory.

The brass areas were weathered with citadel Nigilakh oxide.

Silvers were weathered with orange rust forgeworld weathering powder.

The blood on the axe was UHU glue mixed with burnt red applied with a cocktail stick.

I love how this mini turned out

Next up was the classic chaos dwarf miniature. It’s an old model which is a fairly simple sculpt but I do feel these old minis have great character. It was so easy to paint took very little time and I think I’m as happy with the outcome as with the newer sculpts. We seem to crave more and more detail on our miniatures but is that what we need? I’m not so sure. Enjoyed this one.