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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: The Black Rider on August 13, 2008, 08:46:06 PM
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(http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/ff335/blackriderphotos/S7001758.jpg)
My first attempt at painting some ngoni! A chief and his shaman friend. Sorry for the terrible picture. I hope it's not too bad but you get the jist!!
I was just wondering am I painting them correctly? I found a Darkest Africa blog and the guy who wrote it was actually painting the same two figures so i kinda used that as inspiration!!
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Sweet. I based my witch-doctor fellow on a Zulu isAngoma, as he looks identical to one, and Ngoni are after all pretty much a variety of Zulu that wandered off to cause trouble in East Africa.
As it turns out, the only difference between mine and yours is that mine has red-brown hair, copied from the picture I was basing it on.
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ah it was your blog? thanks it was a very interesting read! I recently only brought these figures to use as random cannibals in my pirates game but i loved painting them up and I may just start buying some and painting them up properly!!
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Like your work. 8)
Was highlighting the skin difficult?
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Don't think it was my blog. I don't remember ever posting any pictures of them on-line. I think I know the one you mean, though exactly whose it is escapes me.
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Could it be legatushedlius's?
http://returntodarkestafrica.blogspot.com/
Allen
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That's the one I was thinking of.
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thats the one! :) sorry for the confusion there!
Painting the skin wasn't too bad. I use gw paints so i just used scorched brown as a basis and just did highlights with bleached bone. I used this http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/310 (http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/310)to find some of the shades of the skin.
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I like them, nice work. 8)
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Those are nice and characterful.
Dark skin tones have always scared me o_o but the article is good.
Dodge