Draconis does….. The Silver Bayonet

10th July 2025

Last up for the mummies was the most ‘elaborate’ one, which I will be using as the Pharaonic Mummy. The basic work was carried out in the same way as for the rest, so I wont repeat myself here.

I used a few different metal types on here to give some variation. GW Gold for crown, arm bracers etc, Vallejo bronze for staff end and backpack (with tarnish added to backpack) and Runelord brass for the front of the tabard thing (with some gold on top).

I added red and turquoise segments to the outer edge of his neck ornamentation and added some gem effects to parts of the tabard, the crown orb and the belt scarab.

I also changed the mid skirt thingy from white to turquoise, highlighting up the edges by going up to a pale blue. For added contrast I darkened the main skirt (under this and the tabard, only seen from the edges) by adding a couple of washes of Agrax and Nuln oil.

8th July 2025

Three mummies remain. I am planning to use the floating one as the ‘Pharonic Mummy’, so will leave that to last.

I did however do some work on all of them in terms of skin and the initial wash. The two guard type ones had the dark earthy skin tone, and the floaty chap had a more beige tone.

Again I didn’t get many pictures here, as I was just pushing on with the time that I had.

They were painting in the same way as the previous mummies overall. The weapons and some other parts were painted as tarnished metal again using pastel seafoam to add a (sort of ) Verdigris effect.

These mummies also had tabards which I painted as linen but took up to white highlights. They are still quite close to the wrappings, but do stand out a little more irl. I also added some pops of colour by giving one a large area of red on his crown and the other some red gems on his chest piece and a red scabbard. And of course some areas of turquoise.

7th July 2025

More undead now, this time its mummies.
I searched through my old Citadel undead and found some metal mummies. However, they look a bit….. rubbish. There’s just something not quite right with the arm lengths and such. So, I checked through my Reaper Bones and found a few that may be suitable, plus an old Heroquest mummy as well. However, for numbers I still needed to use one of the metal ones, so chose the one with the headwear.

The Heroquest mummy and most of the reaper ones needed their bases trimmed to fit on the 30mm lipped round bases. After doing that I filled the gaps with milliput, added some fine sand and primed them up. Then I painted the bases with my foundry ‘base sand’ triad.

I decided to start work on the three more basic mummies first, to get an idea of how I wanted to paint them. I didn’t get many pics here (sigh of relief from readers 😊 ).

Starting with the heroquest one I painted the skin in a mid earthy brown, then washed the whole mini with agrax, followed by a drybrush of ivory. Then I went back in and rehighlighted the skin.

Then it was on to the old metal citadel mummy. I used a darker earthy tone for the skin here, which I prefer. I also added colour using turquoise. For the tarnished metal I started with a gold base then applied a thinned wash of speedpaint Pastel Seafoam followed by a drybrush of Vallejo bronze.

For the most basic reaper one I used the same techniques, but went with a lighter highlight on the bandages to make it pop a little more.

Finally it was finishing touches, details and an attempt to add some glowing eyes.

1st July 2025

Back to the enemy minis for the coop campaign (that we will hopefully get to start soon… it’s been a while now ☹ ).

Keeping in the spirit (no pun intended) of using minis I already own, I dug out my Reaper Bones KS Haunts. Two of them are too large, but three will work.

The minis are a translucent green plastic, so in order for them to ‘read’ a bit better on the tabletop I decided to give them an ivory drybrush followed by a white drybrush, to create some definition. Unfortunately they don’t photograph well, but it does help irl.

I had to trim the bases on two of them to get them to fit, then they were glued down, and some basing sand added, then painted brown and washed with nuln oil.

The sword wielding ghost had a gravestone on its base, so I decided to focus on this one first.

I painted the stone in grey, picked out the skull at its base then gave them both a nuln oil wash.

I followed this up by trying to add a glow effect. Started out with a thin green wash, then painting on warpstone glow, followed by some edge highlights with warpstone glow mixed with a bit of ivory. I also added the glow to the base area close to the ghost.

When adding the flock I felt the glow didn’t quite pop enough, so I gave it a light drybrush of ivory to bring it up a little.

The other two ghosts had the glow effect added to their bases. The skull head chap made me debate whether to paint it as a full actual skull. I decided to keep it as a ghost, but try to give it some more interest by adding glowing eyes…

I added some ghost eyes to the female ghost as well, followed by some basing. They all had a matt varnish coat, as I found that some of the drybrush white was rubbing off the green plastic with minor handling.

26th June 2025

I was gifted this mini by a generous friend, to use with my Silver Bayonet brits. He had the usual white over black prime.

Worked on the large areas first, the tunic and then the trousers.

Tunic was started with a dark red, given an agrax wash. Then re highlighted up through to evil sunz scarlet on the top edges.

The trousers were Dawnstone grey, washed with dawnstone/black mix, then highlighted back up. I may have gone a bit dark on these perhaps.

The waist band was painted up using my foundry Madder red paints, giving it a more pinky hue.

Then on to the more fiddly bits 😊 Collars and cuffs were painted in a dark Prussian blue, highlighted with Kantor blue mixed in, then up to a pale blue. Gold edging added to these. The sash, sword belt and gloves were painted grey then highlighted with white. Hat was rubber black, washed with nuln oil, then the gold picked out.

The eyes…. Yeah…. I really struggled with these for some reason. I tried them several times, but each time they just became crude splodges. In the end I just repainted the flesh and added a dark dash to represent the eyes. It’s a bit like he just has pits to the abyss for eyes…. But its better than what was there before. Disappointed that I couldn’t get these better, as I am happy with the jacket work etc. I may come back to them at a later date.

10th June 2025

Haven’t worked on any Silver Bayonet minis for a while due to my ongoing Spring Clean project.

However, I had wanted to do something with regards to the storage of the terrain that I had put together so far – in particular the undergrowth rocks and such. As they were just sitting on top of other boxes, that I need to tidy up 😊

Initially I thought I would use some offcuts of polystyrene, mark out the base sizes and cut them out. However, my hot wire cutter seems to have failed. I tried a hobby knife, but after a short while that proved to be a no go. Instead I thought I would try some old pieces of soft foam that I had lying around. I marked out the layout on that, cut them out with a new sharp blade, glued it to some offcuts of hardboard and used duct tape to stick them together in the bottom of an underbed storage box.

I still need to work out some more efficient storage of the rest of the pieces though…. The larger scatter goes in well, the trees sort of sit in one corner but…. The river, bridge, ruined chapel and box of small scatter just kind of live on top of the rest. However, it has done the job of getting them together in a storage box that can be moved around, and holds the majority of the smaller (and heavy due to stones) pieces in place to prevent them banging around, knocking into other pieces and getting damaged. The windmill currently doesn’t fit in – but I may end up doing a second storage box at some point.

28th March 2025

Alongside the scout I have been working on a model for an occultist. Not a perfect fit, but I found a WestWind Vampire wars mini that looked as if she may be casting a hex (perhaps).

Standard prime for her, then rolled out some contrast to block it in.

I wasn’t happy with the result they gave – the flesh was too grey and the red of the dress lacked warmth. So I used two shades of my Foundry flesh triad to rework the face and hands.

I also used Mephiston red followed by Evil Sunz Scarlett to brighten the dress. The contrast wasn’t wasted here though, since I used it as a guide for where to lay down the highlights.

The face still hasn’t come out great, but it is functional.

The yellow waist sash had an agrax wash to give it some depth, I added some red wash to the eyes and mouth and then a black splodge for the eye….. not trying anything more on these tbh.

27th March 2025

I may not use a native scout, but I wanted to fill out some of the other soldier options, so decided to try to build one. I used a Wargames Atlantic rifleman, chose the bandana head, left the backpack off and added some milliput feathers to his belt. Then it had the standard prime.

To make it look less like a rifleman still I went for a leather colour for the trousers, and a faded black for the jacket.

For the skin I used Darkoath flesh contrast, with a couple of washes. For a spot of colour I painted the bandana red, and gave hime some faded green cuffs. The pouches and straps were painted in the usual fashion as for the rest of them so far. Then washed with Agrax and highlighted.

Then a few finishing touches, picking out buttons, re highlighting the over boot things and he was finished. I think it will pass for a native scout, but still feels in keeping with the rest.

I may have weathered the jacket a little too much in places though.