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Ghosts of Random Rursdays Past: Snakeman

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On Thursdays, I like to take a break from my army projects.  Instead, I try to do something that I can start and complete all in one evening.

I didn’t get a chance to go any painting this Thursday, so instead I’ll feature one I did a couple of week ago.

This is Snakeman, from the first Reaper Bones Kickstarter.  Its painted in my traditional Random Rursday technique: midtone, wash, drybrush or edge hightlight to taste.

Snakeman

I’ve done the red fletching things for arrows a couple of times now, but it never quite turns how I want it to.  I should probably branch out a bit.

The blood on the knives is Games Workshop’s Blood for the Blood God technical paint.  It’s pretty easy to get a nice effect, although I haven’t been able to get enough volume on a splatter type effect.

Updated December 2017 with improved images.

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Ghosts of Random Rursdays Past: Descent miniatures

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On Thursdays, I like to take a break from my army projects.  Instead, I try to do something that I can start and complete all in one evening.

Over the course of many Thursdays past, I painted up the entire set of Descent base set miniatures, one hero (or set of monsters) at a time.

  • Grisban the Thirsty
  • Leoric of the Book
  • Syndrael
  • Tomble Burrowell
  • Ashrian
  • Widow Tarha
  • Jain Fairwood
  • Avric Albright
  • Skeleton (Reanimate)

The heroes all get Secret Weapon flagstone bases.  This is both to make them stand out a bit from the monsters, and was an excuse for me to check out the resin bases without committing to buying a whole army’s worth. The skeleton (a familiar for the necromancer) is from the Reaper Bones Kickstarter, since the game itself only comes with a cardboard token.

Zombies

One of my players noticed that these guys are giving each other high fives.  Somehow they seem somewhat less threatening now.

Flesh Moulders

The purple magic fireball thing in their hands kind of came out looking like a scarf or something.

Cave Spiders

Painting the underside of these guys (and their base) was a pain.  In retrospect, I probably should have sliced them off, then reattached once painted.

Goblin Archers
Barghests
Merriods

I’m really happy with how these guys mouths and teeth turned out.

Ettins
Shadow Dragons
Elementals

In game, these have powers representing all the elements.  I decided to catch them in fire and water mode.  I tried doing some OSL-style lighting on the base of the fire one, but it kind of just looks like I’m sloppy.

Updated March 2019 with improved images.

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Random Rursday: Khadath, Nefsokar Captain

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On Thursdays, I like to take a break from my army projects.  Instead, I try to do something that I can start and complete all in one evening.

Tonight is another model from the first Reaper Bones Kickstarter, Khadath, Nefsokar Captain.

I’ve been using a few Secret Weapon washes for a shading and such, and recently decided to complete the set.  The shipment with most of them came yesterday, so I decided to try to paint the model entirely with the washes.

The experiment was not a success.  I made at least two mistakes:

  1. The blue and the red were poor color choices.
  2. I didn’t give enough time for the washes to dry, especially when doing neighboring colors.  The washes stay really watery for a while.  I ended up getting some bleeding between neighbors, which was really hard to clean up.

I started by doing the bone sections in Armor (I think), which looked really nice, but then it went downhill from there.

I’ll probably try it again, but I’m not sure I have the patience for an all-wash style.

Unpainted model from the Reaper Bones Kickstarter
Unpainted

Khadath, Nefsokar Captain

Updated December 2017 with improved images.