Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Frostgrave undead and construct)

[fred]

Where they purple coloured? My mate has some Vimto ghosts in his army still.

[Daeothar]

I never got the 'Vim-To' monks gag either.

Perhaps?

[Hobgoblin]

The whole thing looks like it was typed up and printed out on a daisy-wheel printer over a weekend! Spelling mistakes galore and that weird disjointed text look of the early word processors.

And don't get me started on the run-on sentences ...

[Cubs]

Where they purple coloured? My mate has some Vimto ghosts in his army still.

I get it now of course … but at the time it went over my head.

[fred]

Aah!  I think I was unaware of Vimto back then. Only discovered its ‘interesting’ aroma after I met my wife. It’s now pretty much the only drink of my youngest daughter.

[DivisMal]

The orcs and goblins are really nice. I like how efficient your paintjobs are. They convey perfectly the sense of gloomy creatures lurking in the dark, scrounging from weapons of lost adventurers.

[sundayhero]

What's your technic for his skin ? I really like the result !


thanks

[Hobgoblin]

What's your technic for his skin ? I really like the result !


thanks

Cheers! The recipe's on the same page:

Sure - it's the same recipe I used for my Chronicle/Grenadier orcs earlier in this thread:



Black undercoat
Base coat of Baneblade Brown
Wash of Reikland Fleshshade
First highlight with Kislev Flesh
Second highlight in Wych Elf Flesh or Vallejo Silver-Grey (I usually use the latter, but they're the same colour and consistency)
Eye sockets washed in Drakenhof Nightshade
Mouth and nose washed in watered-down Blood for the Blood God.
Eyes white, then bright red, then yellow
Teeth buff, washed with Agrax Earthshade, then highlighted in buff and then white.

[sundayhero]

thank you  ! I'll save the receipe for a further project

[Hobgoblin]

Here are some Chronicle kobolds. I've had some of these since primary school. I based them up on pennies when we were doing 15mm RPGs so that they could be used as gnolls or dark trolls or some such large humanoids. But smaller bases are better for kobolds in 28mm (because you can crowd more of them in). And they fit into my sabots for Dragon Rampant, Of Armies and Hordes or - perhaps - Alien Squad Leader.

[Hobgoblin]

Testing out the new Citadel Contrast paints: I'm very impressed so far. I started these yesterday, along with about 50 other figures. I think the new paints are going to be a huge help in finishing off quick RPG encounters.

[Elk101]

I'd read that it's very hard to go over certain colours with the new Contrast paints. How did you find that? Did you use the recommended primer?

[Hobgoblin]

I'd read that it's very hard to go over certain colours with the new Contrast paints. How did you find that? Did you use the recommended primer?

All the colours that I used covered pretty well. Some are heavier than others, though. I used the Wraithbone spray on some of them (including the mushroom man above), but for others, I just painted over white or preshaded white undercoat. The demon above was done over white that I'd washed with Agrax Earthshade and drybrushed white again. There's not much difference - but the yellow feathers would have been brighter without the preshading.

The stronger/darker paints 'cancel' the lighter ones very well. So if you're painting light to dark, you can erase your mistakes as you go along. But cleaning up's not that difficult, as you can paint over any mistakes in the Wraithbone pot paint and use contrast paint again. There's very little in the way of 'tidemarks'; they seem to dry not at all for a bit and then suddenly, rather than drying gradually.

[majorsmith]

They look pretty good!

[Jagannath]

That looks great dude - the griffin's fab. I'm really impressed with the brown.

I've got some wee 6mm astronauts on the printer today to try the bright yellow colour with, I think that might work nicely. Same with the bright teal.

This stuff really is so good for your established painting method eh? Tried 'Bone primer - white drybrush - contrast' yet?