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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: Laughing Ferret on 29 July 2011, 11:44:43 PM

Title: My Bandidos for LotOW
Post by: Laughing Ferret on 29 July 2011, 11:44:43 PM: Local league is running some LotOW, so I finished some Bandidos to join in.
(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb16/LaughingFerretStudio/Bandidos/bandidogang002.jpg)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N7TSZvxvF90/TjMqUeoCG4I/AAAAAAAAAG4/hLmUOSvUG2Q/s320/Bandidos+JulioIguana.jpg)
Julio Iguana :D

I have plans for converting a couple extra of the Black Scorpion bandits into Vaqueros. But considering most of the cash I made in the first game went to replacing the dead, I probably have plenty of time to work on them.

More pictures and their first battle report is here: http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/07/bandidos.html (http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/07/bandidos.html)
Title: Re: My Bandidos for LotOW
Post by: Ray Rivers on 30 July 2011, 02:08:09 AM: :-*

Nice group of bandidos!

Love the iguana... :D
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Post by: Heldrak on 30 July 2011, 03:15:14 AM: Very nicely done! Looking forward to more battle reports starring this gang.

Any tips about how you achieved their excellent dark skin tones?
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Post by: Rob_bresnen on 30 July 2011, 08:55:16 AM: Wow, thats a LOT of banditos for LotOW.

Very nice work BTW. I love the stripy poncho.
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Post by: Leetje on 30 July 2011, 10:03:46 AM: They are superb. I want !
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Post by: majorsmith on 30 July 2011, 01:48:27 PM: Cracking mexicans!
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Post by: Sangennaru on 30 July 2011, 02:09:49 PM: cute mexicans! =)
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Post by: Skratch on 30 July 2011, 03:03:46 PM: Quote from: Rob_bresnen on 30 July 2011, 08:55:16 AM
Very nice work BTW. I love the stripy poncho.

Yeah, the poncho rocks! I love the level of detail you put into that
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Post by: Hawkeye on 30 July 2011, 06:43:54 PM: Great bandidos! The iguana on the shoulder of the guy with the bottle in his hand is brilliant, and there's a great contrast between the earthy/creamy colours and the bright colours of the ponchos, etc. Nice stuff.
Title: Re: My Bandidos for LotOW
Post by: Laughing Ferret on 30 July 2011, 08:22:14 PM: Thanks everyone :D These were a 'speed paint' project, but I did slow down a bit to give Julio Iguana some extra attention. This mini by Reaper was the majority of the motivation behind picking bandidos actually.

Quote from: Heldrak on 30 July 2011, 03:15:14 AM
Very nicely done! Looking forward to more battle reports starring this gang.

Any tips about how you achieved their excellent dark skin tones?

Thanks, I'll try to do a write up after each battle. Next one is Wednesday.

For the skin tone I started with a mix of valeijo dark flesh mixed with reaper master series tanned flesh shadow (the darkest in the triad) , then mixed some tanned flesh into that for highlights, wash with wash made from dark flesh. I make a lot of my own washes. spot-wash for recesses, like between fingers, shadow areas on face, etc with the dark flesh wash mixed w a touch of devlan mud.
Title: Re: My Bandidos for LotOW
Post by: magokiron on 31 July 2011, 01:14:51 AM: A nice band!

And you "speed painted" them?

They're great man, you're very talented.

Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: The Breaker on 31 July 2011, 03:46:45 AM: These guys look excellent! I really like them.
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Post by: traveller on 31 July 2011, 12:48:35 PM: Nice! ;D

you have a mix of Foundry and Black Scorpion. They seem to go well together in size?
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Post by: Laughing Ferret on 31 July 2011, 06:37:02 PM: Quote from: traveller on 31 July 2011, 12:48:35 PM
Nice! ;D

you have a mix of Foundry and Black Scorpion. They seem to go well together in size?

Foundry is noticeably smaller unfortunately. These seem a bit smaller even than most of their minis... I suppose peons would be underfed & short though. But still, it was too much of a difference for me- even with the integrated base giving it some height. So I added some thick card-stock to elevate the foundry ones even more, then puttied a slope to hide it as much as possible. Once the minis are together and on the table it's not really noticeable. They still look a bit smaller, but it's ok, since they're peons. I wouldn't want to mix foundry Mexican bandits and try to call them Toughs or Heroes equal to the Black Scorpion minis, but I'm happy with the effect for peons.
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Post by: traveller on 31 July 2011, 08:21:13 PM: You made a good job hiding the height difference. It convince me to order some Black Scorpion stuff ;)