Draugr for Midgard

As a reminder, I started with this:

Now I’ve got a completed 300 point Midgard army ready to play:

Saving the best until last here we have the Necromancer himself, flanked by his two standard bearers marking him out as a Level 3 hero.  He is accompanied by the berserkers and they are backed by the Hearthguard.

This week the last of the Draugr warriors, two bases worth:

The next section of bases is done.  I did the section with the other Level 2 Hero base, the 4 Archers and another base of 8 Warriors.

Two more units of Draugr Warriors done and on their Midgard sized sabot bases.  Nothing fancy or different about the paint work, just working through them.  Despite the limited palette they aren’t boring to paint because the sculpts are so interesting and each is unique.  The same colour scheme on identical posed miniatures can be a total grind but nothing like that with these.

I noticed after I’d taken the photos that I had bent a spear point.  The advantage with white metal spears over plastic is that this is easy to repair, a quick dot of superglue and it was good as new.

The first three unit bases are finished.  There is a unit of Draugr Warriors, a unit of Spirits and one of the Level 2 leader bases.

As you can see I’ve put some suitable grass tufts on.  I have some from a local supplier that I picked up at the Legionary show in Exeter.  Both are very dark in colour – a nearly black undertone with either a dark green or dark brown fibre in the tuft.

Having reviewed the pictures of the test model there were a couple of areas I wanted to improve.  The cloak isn’t dark enough so another layer of black is needed.  Also the armguard should be leather colour, I missed it out the first time.  Amendments made and I photographed it again in better light.

We are calling this done.  Now to replicate across the rest of his unit.  Let batch painting begin!

An easy and subtle paint job needs an easy and subtle basing scheme.  I have boxes of pre-mixed basing materials in the modelling cupboard.  I pulled out one which is a mix of sand and two types of grey stone railway scatter along with some lumps of railway scale coal.  This is what it looks like neat on the bases:

That’s okay but I’d like to step up the contrast with the model a bit.  I went and found my pot of Nuln Oil and gave the basing material a good heavy wash with that.  Now we have this:

Not much difference in the photo but it looks noticeably darker IRL.  That’ll do.  I’ve got some dark grass tufts that I’ll put on once they are varnished.