This is a single piece plastic mini from 1995. 13 Years old now. I really think for a 1 piece boxed game mini from that era, it\'s holding up its own compared to modern minis.
It was complete nostalgic joy to paint, having painted one 13 years ago when I was 14. I like to think I\'ve improved somewhat and done the mini justice. Only took a single saturday too, so that was sweet.
I\'m really happy with the colour scheme. I checked out the eavy metal Kislev range and it was all deep reds and blues. I also noticed the leader if the Kislevs rides a polar bear, so I thought I\'d have a skinned one on its back. After researching polar bears on google images, I was shocked to see they\'re like a bleach bone colour. So I worked through that and up to white (in my head they\'re white, so made sense to me rather then copy the google image exactly). I wanted blonde hair for my barbarian... I guess a child hood playing with he-man ingrained that into me. His skin is my usual reciepe (some red gore in the base coat to give it that pinky living flesh tone). I worked hard on the blends on this one and I think they hold up great in these pics.
Sword was fun to do, I added glaze medium to the mithril silver and it took on this lovely smooth consistency. 4 coats later and I\'ve got the smoothest silver I\'ve ever painted. Smoothness was very important, as I planned on using washes to shade the blade for that nmmum technique. Blade is relatively small and not very wide and has a flat central section, so made it reasonable difficult to work out where the reflections should go. Luckily using metallic paints means its quite forgiving, and I think I get away with it better, then if I was using greys and white.
Completed this on Sunday. Pretty happy with the outcome, I think the dull muted tones I choose really help hammer home the fact that he is a wood elf. I also went for less pinky skin then the barbarian. Instead of mixing red gore into the basecoat, I used a smidgeon of grey, to give a more ashen elfy look.
I used washes to shade all the fabrics. I did this carefully and slowly building up the layers like you would in a water colour painting. Created a lovely softness to the piece I feel. Main 4 colours I choose for this model were Vallejo game colour: Earth, Cayman Green, Terracotta and desert yellow. Also went for the non standard purple gems just to be different.
It was complete nostalgic joy to paint, having painted one 13 years ago when I was 14. I like to think I\'ve improved somewhat and done the mini justice. Only took a single saturday too, so that was sweet.
I\'m really happy with the colour scheme. I checked out the eavy metal Kislev range and it was all deep reds and blues. I also noticed the leader if the Kislevs rides a polar bear, so I thought I\'d have a skinned one on its back. After researching polar bears on google images, I was shocked to see they\'re like a bleach bone colour. So I worked through that and up to white (in my head they\'re white, so made sense to me rather then copy the google image exactly). I wanted blonde hair for my barbarian... I guess a child hood playing with he-man ingrained that into me. His skin is my usual reciepe (some red gore in the base coat to give it that pinky living flesh tone). I worked hard on the blends on this one and I think they hold up great in these pics.
Sword was fun to do, I added glaze medium to the mithril silver and it took on this lovely smooth consistency. 4 coats later and I\'ve got the smoothest silver I\'ve ever painted. Smoothness was very important, as I planned on using washes to shade the blade for that nmmum technique. Blade is relatively small and not very wide and has a flat central section, so made it reasonable difficult to work out where the reflections should go. Luckily using metallic paints means its quite forgiving, and I think I get away with it better, then if I was using greys and white.
Completed this on Sunday. Pretty happy with the outcome, I think the dull muted tones I choose really help hammer home the fact that he is a wood elf. I also went for less pinky skin then the barbarian. Instead of mixing red gore into the basecoat, I used a smidgeon of grey, to give a more ashen elfy look.
I used washes to shade all the fabrics. I did this carefully and slowly building up the layers like you would in a water colour painting. Created a lovely softness to the piece I feel. Main 4 colours I choose for this model were Vallejo game colour: Earth, Cayman Green, Terracotta and desert yellow. Also went for the non standard purple gems just to be different.
