Campaign Characters

Every DnD campaign needs some protagonists, and the most dedicated protagonists need fantastic models to represent them. Here are two!

This character comes from the tribes but he's taken up adventuring for reasons best known to himself. Maybe it's the impressive amount of gold you can acquire by slaying monsters and raiding tombs in the jungle. He was painted mostly with Contrast paints and because of the funny angle of his pose is really hard to take a suitable photograph of!

This dwarf has a wandering spirit that has taken him far from his mountain home. This was one of the best characters I've ever had the pleasure of painting - an absolutely stunning model packed with character and beautifully proportioned. I definitely want to get one for myself at some point. While a lot of people like dynamic poses of the jungle barbarian above I'm a big fan of more static, classic poses like this dwarf. Like the above, he was painted mostly with Contrast paints, which are great for browns. I think I mentioned this before but if you want to paint wood, leather, or anything that calls for a lot of different brown tones, then Contrast is a great tool to have.

I decided to work on my non-metallic metal for both of these guys. I used contrast paints for the gold but the steel was ordinary brushwork, and is my favourite NMM silvery metal I've ever done. I'm especially proud of the barbarian's sword and can't wait to do some more!

Anyway, I hope you like them. And I hope the players whose characters these will represent like them too.

Until next time, happy painting!

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.