Crazyredcoat's Crazy Compendium of Collected Creativity
"Your creepers best come fast, or my men will swarm those walls and win the Moat before you show your face."
My next project is something I haven’t done for a while; batch painting! I’m going to be painting my House Umber Berserkers from CMON. Hopefully it cools down enough out there to prime them, but at 40+ Celsius during the day I’d rather not risk the heat and humidity screwing up the priming stages.
The way I will do this will be to paint the main lads as I go, but show the colour choices using the Champion…though I will do a bit on the banner as a separate bit, most likely.
The colour pallet is going to be quite dour here, focusing on rugged colours with spots of colour in hair colour and the tabards that I will paint in Khorne Red. This is a little darker than the colour shown on House Umber’s heraldry, but it should fit in quite nicely with the rest of the gritty feel of the minis.
A much better crest that what the TV Series came up with... No idea how they read 'a giant wearing a skin shirt in chains on a red background' and thought, 'chains! We'll do some kinky shit and drop the stupid giant!"...While I am focusing more on the book descriptions, I find for the general aesthetics of the Northmen that the TV Series isn’t too bad. The colours are weird and the heraldry is wrong, but they are useful sources for the armour and leathers…though I will be using a few more ‘bright’ leathers because I hate painting black everywhere; this isn’t The Watch…
A nice selection of armours are on display here and while the Umbers don't wear much armour at all, the colours are useful.Hopefully, if this storm breaks the heat, I can prime tomorrow but this project will take a lot longer than many of my other projects. I haven’t done unit painting since my last Ultramarine project, and that was a bit smaller scale than this but in A Song of Ice and Fire you don’t have the option of half squads…
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