Round 1 - In Cimmeria vs. Hyborian Rage

[Chambersofminiatures]

Fantastic Captain Blood!!!
I will need to find the Shamaness to add to my barbarians.

[Heldrak]

Cap' you feel like sharing some recipes for the excellent hair and flesh on your Barbarians...?

[gamer Mac]

Excellent stuff Richard. Lovely skin tones and a great photo.

Uncle Mike
You have some very nice painted figureS it is just a shame you came up against the Captain. In many of the other matches you would have won hands down

[General Roos]

Awesome! 

[Bugsda]

Unlucky draw Uncle, bummer!

Excellent Barbarians Capt, my favourites of the round.  The flesh wounds are a great touch 

[Captain Blood]

Fantastic Captain Blood!!!
I will need to find the Shamaness to add to my barbarians.

Patrick, apparently she's OOP from Reaper, but you can get her here for a mere $2.95 

http://www.miniature-giant.com/rowena-oop-Reaper-Dark-Heaven-Legends-DHL-sku-2805-pr-825.html

Excellent Barbarians Capt, my favourites of the round.  The flesh wounds are a great touch 

Thanks Bugs

Cap' you feel like sharing some recipes for the excellent hair and flesh on your Barbarians...?

Yep. It's pretty straightforward really. On these it was:

Black undercoat
Base coat: 50:50 mix of Vallejo Red Leather and Vallejo Dark Flesh
Mid coat: Add Vallejo Ivory to the above mix to taste.
Top coat: Add a bit more Ivory
Final highlight: Add a bit of white to the mix for knuckles, ankle bones, nose tips etc.

[Heldrak]

Yep. It's pretty straightforward really. On these it was:

Black undercoat
Base coat: 50:50 mix of Vallejo Red Leather and Vallejo Dark Flesh
Mid coat: Add Vallejo Ivory to the above mix to taste.
Top coat: Add a bit more Ivory
Final highlight: Add a bit of white to the mix for knuckles, ankle bones, nose tips etc.

Thanks, Cap'. I'm slowly becoming reconciled to Vallejo... What about the hair?

[Captain Blood]

Oh yes, sorry Michael - missed that

It's just black (cheap and cheerful Palmier Prism - ex-Inscribe in the UK - hobby acrylic 'Raven'), with highlights using a bit of Vallejo 053 Dark Blue and a bit of white mixed in.

So by the time you get to the tips of the hair, it's actually almost a very light grey-blue, but somehow the eye is fooled into thinking it's black!

This is now my standard recipe for black hair - actually, it means painting figures with effectively blue hair, but it's the best way I've found of doing it, although I'm sure others have better ways 

I mix a bit of VMC 180 Gunmetal blue into my negro hair, to give it that slightly metallic sheen.

[Heldrak]

Thanks again, Cap'. I've been wanting to experiment with blue highlights for my black hair, my grey highlights just make the hair look grey.

[leonmallett]

Both have nice qualities but I strongly favour In Cimmeria. The set-up of the second looks too much like a diorama which detracted a little from the focus on the models for me.

That aside, In Cimmeria wins on strength of the flesh painting, yet both are great sets of mins.

[Ray Rivers]

Not bad, Capt'n!

I gave you a "sympathy vote" due to the nice bum.