Zombies!!!

A while back I posted some tribal warriors I painted for a jungle-themed DnD campaign. Well it's not just hostile natives that the adventurers have to deal with - there's a plague of undeath running rampant through the jungle, too!

These guys were a blast to paint. They've got colours to match the warriors they probably were in life, and were mostly done with Contrast paints. I can't stress enough how great the browns in the contrast paint range are - really enjoying them! It's also good practise for my own zombies, of which I have about a 100. Sadly, as my zombies are for my vampire army, they won't be as colourful as these guys.

Anyway, I hope you like them. Until next time, happy painting!

Ghoul Lord on Display

Well hello 2020!

Man this blog has hit a slump. But we're going to try to turn that around. I have a few photos lined up I want to share - I just need to get round to sorting them out - and I'm working on a few things at the moment that should start appearing in the next month or so. Now, though, it's time to revisit a model that last appeared as a WIP.

Remember this* guy? Well now he's finished!

This is my ghoul king and he was an experiment in Contrast paints and stippling. All the colours were Contrast mixed with either ivory or white (to highlight) or black (to shade), except the bone, which was shaded with various Contrast browns and Agrax Earthshade.

I wanted to make purple my main colour and as I gradually made him paler (to make him more vampiric), added some green (goes well with purple), and added blood around the mouth I realized I made him the Joker. So I just ran with it. I'm pretty pleased with him in any case. As he doesn't really have a place in my vampire army I gave him a round base for display - speaking of which...

I got a display case! Photos aren't great (should probably have waited until it was brighter and used my camera instead of phone) but you get the idea. I've been looking forward to having somewhere safe to put my models since the last time I had to dust them all off. This is just the Detolf glass cabinet from IKEA with some dust strips added to dust proof. At some point I'll be adding more shelves, but for now the project will be to clear my models of dust one last time and transfer them to their new home - the ghoul king just gets the honour of being the first.

Until next time - which I hope will be sooner than this was - happy painting!

*Oh, one last thing. I mentioned in the post I referenced that I was taking painting commissions again. Unfortunately, that has proved to be impractical to work around my job so was quickly squashed as an idea, so commissions are not currently available.

And we were doing so well!

I guess the run of regular and frequent posts had to come to an end sooner or later. We shall remember that shining period fondly, but as the old saying goes: "You should absolutely cry over spilt paint - that shit's expensive".

Nevertheless, here we are with another post (just in time for the end of the year!). I have not been idle the last while, just extremely busy leading to not as much painting as I'd like and even less posting about it. But I have a few items to show you and without any further preamble here they are!

These are some tribal warriors from Osprey Games, painted and based with a Mesoamerican theme for a commission I took on a while back. They're going to be figures for a roleplaying game and it was a lot of fun trying out dark skin tones, vibrant colours, and muddy, jungly bases. I'm very happy with how they came out, and so was the recipient.

This is just the first installment of the miniatures I painted for this campaign - still to come are some more enemies and, of course, player characters. There will, however, be a small delay posting about them as I want to ensure I don't spoil any of the Dungeon Master's carefully-designed plot.

Until next time, and, indeed, next year - happy painting!