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I think my little studdy nook at the hot end of the house has settled at 30deg for the long haul. It mights be aftecting my decision making. Last night I put in a bit of a stretch, bringing the forgoten Conan Merc level with the rest then powering on by using speed paint to base coat a few things.

The Gravelord Grey was a no brainer for all the Conan hair and then I put down a bunch of Hardened Leather. Maybe a bit brown for some bits but feels like tonaly, it ties better with Adrian Smiths original artwork.

From this point I feel ready to focus more on individual pieces and see them through to the end, while keeping an eye on oportunistic moments to share the colour pallet with others.

35deg celcius outside and a small window to lay down some paint before the heat creeps in. Thank god for wet pallets but I will still need to work fast to beat the drying times.

I lay down a coat of Speed paint Crusade Skin then blend a gradient of citadels Kislev Flesh, Cadian Fleshtone,Deathclaw Browen, and Skrag Brown with a few drops of Speedpaint medium to glaze it all.

Generaly speaking I hit the mid tones first,  added a few highlights then blended between the mids back to any areas I felt were too dark with the browns.

Though I’m happy with the general direction for about 1.5 hrs work I think I’ll touch up some of these areas when the weather cools. I have at least a week of hot humid weather ahead so it will be interesting to see if I can find ways to get base layers/glazes down for finessing later.

First step will be storing the wet pellet in the fridge

Here are all the current Conans to date. More to come when I recieve the red nails pledge.

So far a simple airbrushed zenith and a detail drybrush of white over. And started basing in the skin tones.

My painting style feels kinda settled on prgressive glazes but for this project I’ve broken out a speed paint starter set along with a bottle of speed paint medium. I think it will compliment my normal process well, and maybe I’ll spend less time getting my glazes to the right consistancy.

My initial impatience had me diving in on the things I felt easiest to complete while providing some satisfaction. The pack of Hyenas and Amra The Lion’s totem

Maybe 5 years or more I pulled out a selection of minis required for my first couple of chosen scenarios. Undercoated them, toyed with the idea of using a coloured, tonal, zenith and stopped.

I’ve considered it as a spring clean challenge entry a couple of times but there was always something else.

I think I may even have even posted a pic in the ‘What are you painting now?” thread all those years ago but I simply couldn’t gather enough energy to commit to painting my pile of Conan shame. As I had the good fortune of having a local mate who not only loved the game but had already painted his collection. So it was case of why do today what I can put it of till………

At a face to face meet with my long term gamer crew last weekend I decided to ref a game of the new Monolith Conan RPG using the released quick start rules and characters. Though I hadn’t ref’d game in decades it was a total blast and it has reignited my love for all things Conan to the point where spring cannot wait.