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Author Topic: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Rust Monster face reveal)  (Read 395575 times)

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (crustaceans or moon men?)
« Reply #1965 on: August 27, 2019, 01:46:38 PM »
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.

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with giant leeches!)
« Reply #1966 on: August 27, 2019, 09:11:50 PM »
I like the colors there!
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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with giant leeches!)
« Reply #1967 on: August 28, 2019, 07:05:22 AM »
Very nice!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with giant leeches!)
« Reply #1968 on: August 28, 2019, 02:46:07 PM »
Thanks, guys!

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

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (cephalopod-people!)
« Reply #1969 on: August 28, 2019, 06:26:50 PM »
Cool, which minis are those, I have some that are similar but un-clothed?

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (cephalopod-people!)
« Reply #1970 on: August 28, 2019, 07:03:20 PM »
Excellent work!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (cephalopod-people!)
« Reply #1971 on: August 28, 2019, 08:46:24 PM »
Thanks, both! I got them from Four A Miniatures ("cultists").

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (cephalopod-people!)
« Reply #1972 on: September 03, 2019, 09:43:41 AM »
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 ...).

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (jungle titan & octopus)
« Reply #1973 on: September 03, 2019, 10:01:44 AM »
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.

Offline Vladimir Raukov

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (jungle titan & octopus)
« Reply #1974 on: September 06, 2019, 03:26:11 AM »
I sure wouldn't want to mess with that titan, it turned out great!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (jungle titan & octopus)
« Reply #1975 on: September 11, 2019, 10:13:52 PM »
Thanks!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with a ratman scout)
« Reply #1976 on: September 12, 2019, 12:35:54 PM »
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.

Offline Commander Carnage

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (ratman scout and Mantic orcs)
« Reply #1977 on: September 12, 2019, 01:25:58 PM »
I really like the results you are getting with the black undercoat and contrast paints. Those Mantic orcs look sufficiently mean.
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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (ratman scout and Mantic orcs)
« Reply #1978 on: September 12, 2019, 01:41:41 PM »
Thanks! I swear that they take longer to assemble than to paint with this method (even though I missed some mouldlines ...).

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (ratman scout and Mantic orcs)
« Reply #1979 on: September 15, 2019, 08:09:11 AM »
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?

 

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