I took advantage of both a Hobby Lobby sale and an online Arteza paint offer to grab better tube paints. I have gotten back to painting my Arcadia Quest figures.
So... yeah, it only took 13 years. My 2018 minis-related resolution. Obviously, markings and banners are not done yet as I need to put more thoughts into them.
100 dudes: 60 tacticals, 20 devastators, and 20 assaults.
Man all of those posts on this page look f-ing great. You guys do wonderful work.
I'm contemplating painting my Western Legends figures but the game's color palette is very earth toned. I just don't know how good they will look with 100 shades of brown.
If I break the motif and go rogue and paint these figures in any color I choose, I'm afraid it will look garish. Dunno...any thoughts?
That really depends on what you're trying to do. If you're trying to be realistic with all browns, with fading blue, dirty whites... that's difficult. For me that takes real skill. But if you don't mind a little bit cartoony (without going garish), you could really break all that browns with blacks, whites, and bones, and still look really good (without being necessarily realistic). Just make sure you have good contrast (no green next to blue, or dark red next to brown). That's even more important than having accurate colors.
My son requested the Fallout board game for Christmas, so like a good father, I pointed him at all the negative reviews on various web sites and told him to pick something that was more highly regarded by random internet nerds. Nah, just kidding. I value having fun with my children over playing "recommended" games, so we bought it and have been having a ball with it!
So much so, that I've dusted off the brushes, and started painting the figures. First off the production line - the Vault Dweller!