Baron Kraust's Band of Lost Souls

[Thantsants]

Cheers Joe - figured it might be a bit chilly up in those Northern Chaos Wastes!

[phreedh]

I find rotting flesh to be a pretty good verdigris source. I never hear about it in verdigris tutorials, and I've never actually painted any verdigris myself, but whenever I use thin rotting flesh over a dark base coat, the first coating always reminds me of verdigris. Then again, when I think verdigris I think the really light, desaturated near-turquoise version. Others might go for the darkened copper style (which your armour reminds about a lot) with very few highlights.

[Thantsants]

He actually started out fairly bright like that - washed the armour with watered down white and then gave it a few washes of a jade green and electric blue wash. But I lost courage as, surprise, surprise - it looked very bright so he got a very watery few sepia washes as well as bronze shading and highlights and voila!


Maybe next time I'll go back to a dark base coat and then add the verdigris. 

[Graccus]

Thatsant, I just read the first few posts in this thread.

Do you still need wheels for your skellie chariot?
I recently obtained a pair, but with no other bits from it.

Sterling work on all your mini's btw.
I'll have to paint a lot more to get near your level!

[Thantsants]

A new set of wheels would be amazing - I'll pm you!

Thanks for your kind words also! 

[Pil]

I just saw this thread and I must say you're doing a very good job! I always love the way you paint up your old school models and these are no exception I'm going to try and find your Orc's Drift topic now

[Thantsants]

Cheers Pil - but I've got to say you're not helping me stop the boney ones tempt me too much away from the greenies! 

[Pil]

I just skimmed through your Orc's Drift topic looking at the pictures and reading one battle report, it sure is an impressive force and you are very productive! I love the shields on the orcs (wrong topic, but anyway). Of course seeing where you go with your undead will be equally inspiring (though the plastic skeletons are of course not as nice as all the old school metal models).

[Thantsants]

You're right although I do have a bit of a soft spot for the plastics - the ones I have are the survivors of the old skeleton army box set that must have been among some of the first minis I acquired!

Always got my eyes peeled for some nice metal ones though like Phreedh's excellent zombies...   

[Thantsants]

so until then I'll have to content myself with these wights... (couldn't resist the urge after seeing Pil's superb undead army!)









http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/11/itll-be-all-wight-on-night.html

[Argonor]

I have some of those!!  

Your choice of colours is nice - makes them look a bit like the LotR barrow-wights, and actually the understatement of colours make them much more eerie/scary than the traditional dark, rich colour schemes often seen. More 'corpse-shroud' like (if that makes sense).

I have to remind myself, than when dealing with the supernatural/horror stuff, as demonstrated here, less is often more. And I'm going to deal a lot with that, playing both Chaos in Carpathia, Fear and Faith, Strange Aeons, Dead Walk Again, AR:SE... (actually, I seem to have turned very much in the direction of horror-inspired adventure/skimish games during the last couple of years).

[phreedh]

Wight lifting?

Nice to see them painted, never was keen on the models though.

[Thantsants]

Haha - very good! It is a strange weapon and pose I must admit!

As for the minis - I do like the chap with the chains and the winged helmet guy but I have a hankering for the marauder wights... 

[B. Basiliscus]

Oh wow, are those whites ever gorgeous! 
Love the coloration, really brings out the life (death?) of the figures!

[dijit]

Wight lifting?

Nice to see them painted, never was keen on the models though.

oh dear...