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Author Topic: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!  (Read 3673 times)

Offline The Black Rider

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Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« on: August 13, 2008, 07:46:06 PM »


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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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2008, 08:02:08 PM »
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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Offline The Black Rider

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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2008, 08:22:17 PM »
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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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 09:17:34 PM »
Like your work. 8)

Was highlighting the skin difficult?
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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2008, 09:22:47 PM »
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.

Offline aecurtis

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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2008, 09:57:04 PM »
Could it be legatushedlius's?

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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2008, 10:27:55 PM »
That's the one I was thinking of.

Offline The Black Rider

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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2008, 05:52:08 PM »
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/310to find some of the shades of the skin.

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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2008, 08:29:47 AM »
I like them, nice work.  8)

Offline dodge

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Re: Ngoni Cheif and Shaman!
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2008, 11:35:24 AM »
Those are nice and characterful.

Dark skin tones have always scared me  o_o but the article is good.

Dodge

 

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