Psyber's Super-Duper Dungeon (Warhammer Quest)

[Kanto]

Your level of painting continues to impress. Love those beastmen models and your painting on them (never thought that monopose plastic gor could be painted so well!) Marauder shields work excellently on them, too.
I've got some of those minis myself and was going to go with brownish skintones but the way you have painted them has given me second thoughts of maybe going with more pale colors.

[psyberwyche]

Your level of painting continues to impress. Love those beastmen models and your painting on them (never thought that monopose plastic gor could be painted so well!) Marauder shields work excellently on them, too.
I've got some of those minis myself and was going to go with brownish skintones but the way you have painted them has given me second thoughts of maybe going with more pale colors.

Too kind!

Yes, I remember seeing the paler skintones many years ago, and always wanted to try it out. Honestly, it's not quite what I had in my mind's eye, but it turned out well enough. I think the base (Citadel Zandri Dust) was a good choice, and I used Vallejo Xpress "Bag o' Bones" to shade it. After that, I think maybe I went too light too quickly, but for basic gors I was just trying to get them ready for the game. I'm going to paint up a Bray Shaman and a Beastlord at some point, so I'll get another go at it, and probably include more transition mixes on those important characters,

[Kanto]

"Turned out well enough"? That's a serious understatement righ there. If it's not too much of a hassle, could you take some close-up photos of your miniatures? Not just gors but any random assortment of stuff you've painted for this project, would be a treat to see the details on them.

Thanks for the skintones recipe, will have to save that and see if I can muster enough courage to try it out.

[nikkobourges]

Excellent project and paintjob !!!

[psyberwyche]

If it's not too much of a hassle, could you take some close-up photos of your miniatures? Not just gors but any random assortment of stuff you've painted for this project

That's quite a big ask - I must be in the hundreds of minis for this project now... Check through the thread so far, and if there's anything in particular you'd like to see detail shots on, let me know and the next time I photograph a batch I'll happily take some.

[Kanto]

Haha, sorry, meant to ask photos of some of them, not to task you into photographing every miniature in perfect detail, that would take a while as you said!
Pretty tough choosing which I'd like to see the most, so how about photos of some of the miniatures you're most proud of yourself but have only shown as part of a group so far? As many or as few minis as you want to bother with, I'm not sending you on a quest (though this does have a characteristic of all sidequest; little to no xp to be gained as reward.)

[Vladimir Raukov]

Lovely bunch of man-cows, those are!

[psyberwyche]

Thank you guys!

Because we currently have a campaign in progress, I've started painting more batches of monsters (usually in groups of 6 or 12, due to the Warhammer Quest rules). I'm not really one for batch-painting these days, so to keep things fresh, I'm jumping around different kinds of monsters wherever possible. So I've momentarily abandoned the Beastmen, and painted up a big group of Savage Orcs (or "orruks", as GW seems to call them these days, even though it sounds like cussing... ). Really enjoyed these, what an absolute joy to paint! (Although my freehand on the tattoos is a bit shaky...) After many, many years of painting orcs, I've finally found a skin colour recipe I like!

First up, 6 orcs with hand weapons:





And 6 more with bows:





By request, I've taken some close-up shots of a few interesting features (I realise I don't like doing this so much, as it shows up all my mistakes, warts and all...  )

[infelix]

Very nice painting!

[Kanto]

Excellent painting. Thanks for the close-up pics, nice to see the details on these.
And you really are downplaying your freehands big time; they all look good but especially all those swirly mini-spirals and bones on one orc's leg look great.

[Vladimir Raukov]

What little shakiness I can see on the freehands just helps sell it as being more orky! Lovely job.

[psyberwyche]

I was pretty pleased with those Savage Orcs, so I used the same scheme on this old skool Shaman from Lair of the Orc Lord.

Haven't done the tattoos... yet. I'm still pondering whether the model needs them or not.

[Elbows]

Great work on that one - he's a classic.  I don't think he needs tattoos, personally.  Perhaps a simple magical swirl if you need one on there?

[beefcake]

I agree with elbows, doesn't need tattoos. I never thought of him as a savage orc shaman myself. Very nice job. Love those knees extra detail like that makes things great.

[DivisMal]

Your brushwork is simply out of this world! Excellent updates.