Moonstone with not a multi award winning paint job

The Mortician is my least favourite ‘finished’ model for sometime.   There is something that is just off, so much so that I have repainted it 3 times.

It was the first model I painted for Moonstome and I think that I may have put me off from doing the others.

However, I will go with the positive approach and think that it is not good but it is good enough. Also, if it annoys me enough I can always paint it again.

I still have 5 Goblin specific miniatures to paint and a couple of trolls, so I am hoping in the next month or so to have a reasonable Dominion force, but I am also thinking of expanding it so it is not just Goblins, so may add a box of pirates.  I will see if I resist spending any money for a while.

Next up is Beaky Bobby.

For the skin tone on this one, instead of my normal layering technique, I decided to go for a more glazing approach.

Based on something I half remembered on the internet – that I was too lazy to check – I decided to glaze with a pale yellow colour to bring out the highlights any definition.   Although it took a bit longer than normal ( I am a slow painter at the best of times ) I am relatively happy with the results.

So after my positive comments last weekend about my painting skills (if not my photography), I decided I would make a start on my goblins.

This way, if I even get around to playing, I can have have a second force for my opponent.

Looking at these pictures, I can see my photography hasn’t improved.

The highlights do show better in real life but even with the harsh lighting, the images do give a good indication of what I have done.

I have now ‘finished’ the main models that can used for the Commonwealth. I think most need a few touch ups and highlights but all are in a decent position.

I am not going to base them any time soon as I think the black base is fine.  If I get to play with them, I will then probably revisit the basing.

The pictures I have taken aren’t great but do help to show off what I have done.

Moving forward, I am going to either order the Administration of Justice pack or more likely just move onto the Goblins so I have 2  painted factions to choose from.  I also at some stage need to build the Fawns and Shades that I have outstanding.

Step 5

I painted the belts and straps with a P3 paint beast hide but was not happy as I thought the brown was too light.

Step 6

The thigh pads were red and red and yellow in the art work so I used all of my imagination and copied this. I also painted the sword handle.

This is now when I got distracted with some of the football and didn’t bother taking any pictures of the next steps.

I essentially darkened the leatherwork with a couple of shades and then highlighted it again.  I painted the fur a cream colour shaded agrax and then dry brushed over the original colour   I think it was wraithbone but not sure.

I highlighted the thigh plates and added the sunburst symbol.   I tried to add some chipping but it did not work.

All in all, I think he has turned out alright.  Should have gone for more of a contrast in some of the colours.  Not my best work but definitely not my worst.

When I have the Commonwealth completed I will picture them all together.

I have also got an image of Sir Hogwash in progress at about 85%ish complete.  So hoping to complete him in the next couple of days or so.

I enjoyed Gotchgut, not completely happy but a relatively simple model to paint.

I even remembered to take some WIP pictures

The model was primed in grey seer.  I then washed it in seraphim sepia to show the details and make all of the model was primed.

Steps 1&2 skin and waistcoat

Step 1 The skin

The skin is simply bugmans glow that is then mixed with Kislev flesh for lighter and lighter layers until a final highlight of Kislev.

Step 2

Step 3 Armour

All of the metal armour was in leadbelcher which was then shaded.  Chainmail was agrax, the rest was seraphim sepia.   I heavily watered down some skrag brown and painted it in a few places to try and increase rust effect, then dry bushed it with leadbelcher.  The dry brush stage effectively ruined any effects I had (the chainmail was fine), so I did it all again and was gentler with the dry brush

Step 4 Trousers

The trousers started off with ionrach skin (I bought it when it first came out and have never used it). This was then mixed with white for the highlights.   I did try for a textured look but not really happy with the effect.

There is still a few fair few models to assemble and paint.

The last image reminded me to dust off my laptop

May have to branch out and do other projects before I get all of this done.   Hoping to do a few step by steps on the next set of painting – which will help when I break another model and have to retouch it up

With the exception of basing- which is being left until I have assembled and painted all the models – these 4 are mostly done.

A few more touch ups and highlights are needed but these are close to as good as I can get them.