Dan’s 2025 Side Projects

This was a 1:12 3D print from a Kickstarter that ran a couple of years ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printomancer/stl-divine-or-the-heretic-3d-model-1-12-scale/description

The pillar that supports the back decoration warped a bit during the print, so it’s off centre. I’m still happy with the way it looks though. It was nice to try out a different skin tone.

The skin was painted through successive layers, starting with mournefang brown, adding in a bit skrag brown with each layer, and then adding in deathclaw brown.

The robes were painted with a mix of roughly 10:1 white scar and emperor’s children.

The hair was painted corvus black and highlighted administratum grey.

The metals were painted screaming bell, then drybrushed hashut copper followed by sycorax bronze.

The gems were painted white scar then soulestone blue.

The lips were painted bugman’s glow and the cheeks given bit of tuskgor fur as “blush”.

I got this mini free with my Warhammer+ subscription. It was ok. Nat particularly inspiring. But I don’t like to waste models.

The skin was painted rakarth flesh then highlighted flayed one flesh.

The armour was painted naggaroth night then highlighted genestealer purple.

The cloak was painted averland sunset, washed casandora yellow, then highlighted flash gitz yellow I then added a blood drop pattern with evil sunz scarlet.

The skulls were painted zandri dust then highlighted ushabti bone.

The sword and goblet were painted leadbelcher, then highlighted ironbreaker followed by runefang steel.

The base was painted mordant earth and the rim painted abaddon black.

I got this mini free with my Warhammer+ subscription. It was ok. Nat particularly inspiring. But I don’t like to waste models.

The skin was painted rakarth flesh then highlighted flayed one flesh.

The armour was painted naggaroth night then highlighted genestealer purple.

The cloak was painted averland sunset, washed casandora yellow, then highlighted flash gitz yellow I then added a blood drop pattern with evil sunz scarlet.

The skulls were painted zandri dust then highlighted ushabti bone.

The sword and goblet were painted leadbelcher, then highlighted ironbreaker followed by runefang steel.

The base was painted mordant earth and the rim painted abaddon black.

I backed this kickstarter very much on a whim. The models looked like a nice little project and I liked the link to English folklore. I decided to try an mimic the paint scheme from the kickstarter since I don’t usually paint stuff green. I thought it would make a good challenge for me.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/sin-eater-illustrations-miniatures?ref=user_menu

The greens used were death world forest highlighted with ogryn cammo, waaagh! flesh highlighted with skarsnik green, or loren forest highlighted with nurgling green.

The browns were painted dryad bark highlighted baneblade brown.

The black areas were painted incubi darkness highlighted dawnstone.

The beige areas were painted rakarth flesh and the grey skins painted dawnstone.

Various washes were used on different parts of the models: casandora yellow, agrax earthshade, seraphim sepia, and  athonian camoshade.

To make some of the yellow and green areas brighter, glazes of lamenters yellow or waywatcher green were used.

The bases were given a layer of stirland mud and the rims painted abaddon black. A few drops of PVA were applied to the bases and a flock mix applied.

These lovely space dwarfs are from a kickstarter last year. There was a previous kickstarter which I painted up back in 2022 (look at that post for my paint recipes).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curis/roknaut-space-dwarf-bikers-for-28mm-sci-fi-wargames-and-rpgs?ref=user_menu

Röknaut Space Dwarfs (140 points)

Rascaltown Gnome Druid with Scenery – Made to Order

I don’t usually do WIP posts, but for this project I’m challenging myself to limit the paints I use and do lots of mixing, so I thought I better do an update now before I forget the mixes I’ve done so far.

I’m limiting myself to the six colours from the Rogue Hobbies paint set, plus black and white. I.e. Dark turquoise, orange red, ultramarine, bright green, dark hot pink, bismuth yellow, abaddon black and white scar.

The red-brown for the squirrels was mostly red, with a decent amount of blue and just a little bit of yellow.

The dark brown of the staff and burning logs was mostly blue, with some red and only a little yellow.

The basket, ropes, and leather of the backpacks were made from roughly equal parts red, blue and yellow.

The parchment for the scrolls was mostly yellow, with a decent amount of white and just a little bit of red and blue.

The gnome skin was pink with white and a little bit of blue.

The gnomes hair is yellow with a bit of black. Abaddon black must have a blue element to it as the resulting colour is clearly a green.

The other colours are just pure colours from the bottles.

I’m really enjoying the challenge of forcing myself to think through what colour I want to achieve and deciding what colours I need to add together to get the result I want.

All the base colours are done now. I mixed up a couple more browns to do the acorns and miscellaneous animals poking out the model. The rest were the starting colours.

The next step, which may go horribly wrong, will be to mix my own green wash and apply it everywhere. The intention is to make it more “nature-y” with a green tint, and to add depth and definition to the model.

The wash worked out ok. I took the green paint and darkened it with some black. Then I applied a decent amount of lahmian medium to produce the wash which I then applied all over the models.