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

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

The faces came out well with the contrast paints, for very little effort. If I had time to retouch them before the big game, I'd probably keep some items of clothing as they are (as silks, etc.) but repaint others in duller, flatter tones. But the main thing is that they're done.

Here are a couple more monsters for the game: a pair of giant leeches from Reaper Bones. These, like that fish-dog thing, are from the "black" line. They've got much harder detail than the conventional Bones, and far fewer mouldlines.

I did these with contrast paints over black/grey/white. Very quick and pretty decent, I reckon. I suspect that's going to be my go-to method for RPG monsters for some time.

[gibby64]

I like the colors there!

[Sunjester]

Very nice!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, guys!

Here are some octopus-men to go with them. Very quick paintjobs again, mainly contrast paints over Wraithbone spray.

[fred]

Cool, which minis are those, I have some that are similar but un-clothed?

[Ockman]

Excellent work!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, both! I got them from Four A Miniatures ("cultists").

[Hobgoblin]

Here's a Reaper Jungle Titan. I did him extremely quickly for the weekend's RPG action, using the black/grey/white/contrast method. The only twist was to paint the belly scales and skull bits buff before the white drybrush. As a consequence, he was much quicker to paint than a normal 28mm figure, despite being huge.

He's based for HotT; we'll probably use him as a behemoth in 28mm and a god in 15mm (on 28mm base sizes).

I also used contrast paints to prepare a quick Wizzkids octopus (we were playing The Fantasy Trip, after all ...).

[Hobgoblin]

And the pirate crew. Thanks to a relatively high casualty rate and some NPC rescues, all of these ended up being used in the game.

None of these are much of a showcase for painting, but they are at least done, and will doubtless crop up both in reprises of the pirate setting and as bandits, etc., in other games.

[Vladimir Raukov]

I sure wouldn't want to mess with that titan, it turned out great!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

The first villain for the next RPG scenario - and also the first of six recon infantry for Xenos Rampant:

[Hobgoblin]

And here are (yet more) Mantic orcs - speed-painted with contrast paints and a black undercoat. They're not great close up, but I'm going to be churning out dozens of them, so I'm more concerned with mass effect.

[Commander Carnage]

I really like the results you are getting with the black undercoat and contrast paints. Those Mantic orcs look sufficiently mean.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks! I swear that they take longer to assemble than to paint with this method (even though I missed some mouldlines ...).

[maxxev]

Really good stuff in this thread and great work with the Cotrast paints.

Would you happen to have the recipe you used for the Skaven (fantasy) and the Savage orc giant please?