Andy's thread of Curiosities (Formally the Museum Thread)

[OSHIROmodels]

Don't listen to Paul, it's the only way to do it 

cheers

James

[Malamute]

Excellent, can't wait to see it some paint on it.

[FifteensAway]

Only took a quickie look but you do need to redo those arches.  Without keystones they are going to fall down, sure.

[oldskoolrebel]

Thank you for the replies. It will be tomorrow before I can paint them- I've just sealed them all with a coat of watered down PVA. I've had to do an order of some black paint for the undercoat. This should arrive tomorrow (thanks to The wonder of Amazon prime)

[oldskoolrebel]

So the Amazon order arrived including a large pot of black acrylic paint. A short while later this happened:



Thats a lot of tiles! I'll paint the bottom of the MDF base black once the front has dried. I'm currently considering paint scheme. I've spend a bit of time perusing the Dwarven Forge and Hirst Arts forums. There are a lot of black/mid grey/light grey paint schemes. I feel that these look decent on individual pieces but tend to go for the eye when looking at a full layout.

Kind Regards
Andy

[Mason]

Sandstone is the way to go, mate.
Would work well with all the Egyptian stuff too.
 

[oldskoolrebel]

So I had a go at painting a tester piece.

Heavy (almost still wet) dry brush of Brown
Heavy Dry brush of a mid brown/grey
Wash of very watered down vallejo smoke wash
Dry brush of a mid brown/grey
Dry brush of a light brown/grey
Dry brush of a very light brown/grey




Le me know what you think.

Kind regards
Andy

[gamer Mac]

Looking good

[oldskoolrebel]

I've completed some more work on the dungeon tiles, I'll post a picture over the next few days.

I've dug into the pile of reaper bones which have sat their unused since they arrived. Having not painted in a while, I wanted something quick and easy. I pulled out the five zombies included in the set. One of these sculpts is horrid, the other isn't too bad. Below you can see my attempts to slap some paint on the miniatures (first painted in over a year!). They need to be based. I've still to decide how to do that.



After I cleaned and and prepped the miniatures (bones mould lines are horrible to remove!). I painted straight onto the bonesium with great effect. I'm not really a fan of the green zombies, but I wanted these guys to be a bit of an homage to the old school. I am reasonably happy with home they came out, for a quick paint job. There is definitely more depth to the colours in real life.

I started with a base coat of Gretchin Green on the skin, Tausept ochre on the clothing, and charred brown on the hair. Next step was to give everything a coat of ogryn flesh. The next stage was to dry brush the skin with bubonic brown. I then highlighted the skin with a mix of desert yellow and bleached bone, and the cloth with pure bleached bone.

Sorry for the blow by blow, I have a terrible memory and need to record these things somewhere!

Kind Regards
Andy