Dr. Tortenkopf's Howling Griffons
Priming and Base Coating
I primed and base coated the minis in late summer 2017. Priming them in black was in hindsight a mistake. Even citadel base colours have a hard time covering black when they happen to be yellow.
I ended up having to strip one of the squads this spring and primed that using an averland sunset rattle can. I took less than half the time base coating those, including the red half, than I had taken for a single squad with black primer.
After assembly I drilled holes into the mini’s feet with a hand operated drill. I have seen people do that with power drills and find that horribly scary to watch. Please stop doing that everyone.
I then glued wires into the holes and drove those through bars I had cut from a sheet of Styrodur (An insulation material. More on that stuff later). The bars worked great as paint sticks and were easy to cut into separate blocks afterwards, which I could use as paint handles.
The same wires were also used to mount the figures onto the bases towards the end of the painting process.
I just noticed I used the local newspaper page with the death notices to cover the table.
Only in death, does duty end.
Look forward to seeing more, it looks like it all worked out in the end from the project header image 🙂
Thank you. You are right, there is not much which could still go wrong at this point. But I have to admit I am going through a phase of low motivation at the moment as the only thing remaining to be done are eyes and some other really small details.
And that is of course why I decided to sort the pictures and post them as a project. To relax and regain some strength and motivation from doing something slightly different and from seeing peoples reaction to my work.
Can always be good to take a break and so something a little different before going back to a long-running project. Good to have a refresh, and try other bits. Do you have any other projects on at the minute?