Painting Warploque Halflings
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About the Project
I'm not sure how I can accross them but I've completely fell for Warloques Halflings. I don't really want to learn another system at the moment as I'm trying to get my head around SAGA age of magic, so I'm in the process of building a halfling force for use in the game!! ?
Related Game: SAGA
Related Company: Warp Miniatures
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Completed
The beginnings
I absolutely love the sculpts from the guys ar Warploque, their halflings are so characterful,almost cartoony.
I only picked up a small set for something to do but I now need more. Not wanting to learn new rules (though I might be pursuaded if I see the at an expo) I’ve decided SAGA would be a great game to build them for.
I just thought I’d share my painting journey and show off how amazing these little guys really are.
Priming and base coats
I decided to go with a white base coat; I wanted these quite bright in comparrison to other models I've done recently. I painted the base with a light coat of oak brown which settled within the recesses of the basing material giving some definition quickly 
I decided to go with the face next, purely because it's such a small detail I could get out the way. I went with black to pick out the irises as they're pretty small so I don't think that they need more than that. The face was done with a base of bugmans glow and highlights with cadian fleshtone 
I did the hair a mix of colours, mainly blacks and browns but I didn't want them all the same so it would add a bit of variety Clothing
I was very inspired by Captain Bullhoof's paintscheme on the Warploque website. So I've decided to go with greens, the green is a caliban gree
Zandri dust was used for the other side of the tunic
The undershirts were painted browns, I used a few different ones to add a bit if variety
The trousers, were done with stegadon scale green and the hoods all with dawnstone grey. Metals and wash
All the metal work was done with chainmail, usually I'd drybrush this on but I wanted it to be quite bright so I painted it on directly and would wash after.
The skins were then all washed with reikland fleshshade and I used Army painters dark tone over the rest of the model to shade them
Another shot of some of the troops after the shading. The next step is highlighting everywhere and bringing some of the colour back to the modelsHighlighting
To highlight and bring the colour on the models back up I just used the same paints I'd originally painted them with. I only painted the raised areas and did it very sparingly so it didn't stand out too much. Rhe colours I worked on was the zandri dust and warboss green on their tabbards, a light brown on the raised areas of the gloves and hats and I used dawnstone on the grey hoods.
I also went over the edges of the bases as while painting I rubbed alot off and you could see the primer underneith. 
The final step will be the basing materials, namely foliage a grassBasing
The bases were all painted army painters oak brown. I then used a couple of sizes of grass tufts
I sthen used some summer flock and some very small bits of dark clump foliageFirst batch painted
This is everyone I’ve done so far, not a bad little beginning to my force.
I’ve got another group on the way from Warloque, an additional 5 archers, 6 warriors and a hero
Halfling - giant comparrisonHalfling General
To start off I wanted the general to have a decent base. After seeing what warren did recently with his chaos and the castle walls I decided to add a fence.
I had a load of coffee stirers left over from my son’s project last yeat so I just cut one up, stuck it to a few bits of kebab skewers and boom! a fence.
I added a few bushes and grass tufts to the back end as it was wasted space otherwise. In the front area I left a little gap for the general.
The next step was the General himself.
I started by basecoating white with an army painter rattle can.
The eyes are done by first painting black, I then paint a small white line accross the eyes adding andot of black for the iris. For a tabletop gaming mini this works really well.
The face was done the same as previous halfings with bugmans glow first and a lightlight of cadian fleshtone. It was then finished with rikeland fleshshade.
Next was the clothing.
I started with the cloak. This was done with khorn red and a highlight of mephiston red
The trousers and undershirt were done with stegadon scale green
I think he’s then got a gambon or something similar under his plate armour. I stuck with the paint scheme of the troops and went with his right side dark angels green with a moot green highlight and zandri dust on his left hand side.
The feather was also done with stegadon scale green and then highlighted with temple guard blue.
One of the final steps was the metals. This was fairly simple as it was pretty much the only bits that weren’t painted.
The main chest plate was done chainmail silver, the pouldrons liberator gold. I then did a few of the smaller details as gold too.
I also decided to go with silver for this helmet, I’m not sure whether it is a helmet or a hat but it looks good as a helmet so I’ll go with that.
The final part was adding the shade. To do this I gave the model a complete coat of army painters dark tone.
This brought all the colours together nicely.
Completed front
Completed rear
