What Minis Are You Painting?

A couple more Arcadia Quest figures.

Hammer Bros.


I was going for a greenish stone with hints of gold and copper, but it ended up looking a bit heavy on the metallic side. I don't hate it, but I'll likely stipple some grey over the hammers it to knock it down a bit. The picture does not do justice to the depth of the body color which is too bad.

First miniature I’ve painted from this line.

Took me literally a year to do my first whole warband - I'm a slow painter at the best of times and I don't particularly enjoy it. But I do like the results.

The first one took ages in dribs and drabs. Then I did two more in a burst of a few days. Then the last one I got bored so it was dribs and drabs again.

Ironically I started with these first because they're my least favourite warband. Was never much of a fan of GW Orcs and I like them even less now they're Orruks or whatever. But it seemed a good way to re-acquaint myself with a brush as it wouldn't matter too much if it went wrong.





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To be honest, I'm not massively enthusiastic about the sculpts and fluff of any of the bands. I like the Briar Queen and the Sepulchral Guard the best (my WFB armies were Empire and Vampire Counts) but the number of models puts me off when I'm so slow. What I'd really like is Nurgle, but it doesn't exist. Yet.

Going to do Steelheart next in a hoplite style, all bronze and limited colour so it should be a bit faster. Maybe only 6 months.

The Nighthaunts are suuuuuuper easy IF you don’t worry about the details and the fact that they are stunningly incongruous models with too many textures (bone, skin, cloth, and ethereal all sort of mix and match.

Here’s what you do.

Spray Corax white
Brush with either Hexwraith Flame/Nighthaunt Gloom/Nihilakh Oxide

Done. You can get fancy and dry brush with Ulthuan Gray. If you want more depth, wash with Coelia Greenshade and then do that. If you think they need more, Leadbelcher the metals. But they actually look good one ghostly color.

The Corax White is the critical element there- other whites don’t work as well for this technique.

Here are my Spooky Bois... one got lost on the workbench....

Michael Barnes wrote: The Corax White is the critical element there- other whites don’t work as well for this technique.

Great tips. but I'd be grateful if you could elaborate further on why this is? I don't generally use spray paints - they're expensive and I don't trust them to cover properly. And I normally undercoat black, so I'd not use a white spray for anything else. But corax white is only available as a spray so I'd prefer to go with a pot paint colour if possible?

Agree on the idea of leaving them mostly white, but I won't be able to resist on painting in the metals at least. I love that Varclav the Cruel model, and I feel it would be dull without all those barbs and mail and keys blocked in. Plus I like the idea of dead spirits using real weapons to cause real damage to the living.

MattDP wrote: Great tips. but I'd be grateful if you could elaborate further on why this is? I don't generally use spray paints - they're expensive and I don't trust them to cover properly. And I normally undercoat black, so I'd not use a white spray for anything else. But corax white is only available as a spray so I'd prefer to go with a pot paint colour if possible?

You really do like taking the slow paint route, a spray will save you time and you can get colour match pots from places like Army Painter as well as Gamesworkshop for any undercuts that don't get a full coat.

Jazzbeaux wrote: You really do like taking the slow paint route, a spray will save you time and you can get colour match pots from places like Army Painter as well as Gamesworkshop for any undercuts that don't get a full coat.

It's the money, mostly. I don't like lavishing cash just to save time, and a can is 3-4 the price of a pot and doesn't cover as many figures. Plus if you're having to paint over gaps, it's not actually saving that much time.

It depends a little how you spray, I used to do it in a box on a flat surface so mostly the paint came from above with lots of missed areas. So perhaps 60% solid coverage?

I now use heavy duty cardboard tubes (get them from work) with blutac to attach the figures. I can then rotate the tube as I spray and more importantly get an angle underneath. Now 95% coverage! Do need to do outside though...

Recent work, Plaguebearer and Blight King by me. Skeleton by my nine year old son.

Its upside down!!! Did try to correct this...

Gandolf, with friend.

Aragorn, with friends.

More Middle Earth.

My soon to be miniature painter (daughter's boyfriend) was super impressed with this thread, especially the LOTR. I'm going to have him start on the monsters in cyclades.

Making progress on the dragon rampant army.

The wife finally finds a hobby to do in the evenings so I have been working on one unit throughout the week, the front most one.