Kharegims saga
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About the Project
So one of the games I've gotten into recently in a big way is saga. I started with my vikings after visiting the viking museum in Dublin. Here I will add photos of all my warbands plus how I painted them so I have a reference for the future!
Related Game: SAGA
Related Company: Studio Tomahawk
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
The project begins in earnest
So tonight I’ve finally begun the project properly by doing all of the initial drybrushing and basecoating of gun metal on all the infantry models in the project and the general (I’ve not yet assembled my cavalry). Needless to say a very quick mindless task but progress is progress and I enjoy the meditative state of painting without thinking.
Age of Hannibal begins
So I’ve finally gotten time to do hobby again and I’ve decided the project I’ll pick up is my age of Hannibal Republican Romans for saga. I began the process by painting a test model using all the paints in the images below (apologies for potato quality paint labels) in the end the goal wasn’t to win a best painted but to have a decent outcome by the end with a few layers, washes and techniques that will look together as a force. In that case I’ve done really well and I’m quite happy with the scheme.
The finished test model, a hastatii from victrix games armies of the Roman republic plastic kit.
I began with drybrushing gun metal on the chainmail and a base coat on the weapons. Once I had completed the layer of dragon red and the first two layers of flesh and the brown layers I washed everything in soft tone. The plate mail metal was then applied as a highlight.,
I followed with dragon red, then after the wash stage (soft tone) I layered pure red before a lava orange highlight.
I began with the tanned flesh, layered barbarian flesh, then after the wash I highlighted kobold skin mixed with white..
Weapon bronze was the initial bronze layer, followed by a highlight after the wash of greedy gold.
For brown I basecoated oak brown, then after the wash layered with leather Brown.Harald crowbone goes a viking
So this project and me getting into saga began last year with a trip to the UK and Ireland with my girlfriend. We visited the viking museum in Dublin and my curiosity for the dark ages was piqued. Queue a week later when we visited the lead belt and I wound up with 6 points of vikings and all the things I’d need to get playing!
I arrived home and fortunately a whole heap of friends were getting into saga and very shortly I was hooked. I painted these using entirely army painter primers and paints. Specifically priming in leather brown, wolf grey, dragon red, gun metal, ultramarine blue and desert yellow. I then picked out the skin in barbarian flesh, the metal in gun metal and weapon bronze, white clothing in spaceship exterior, boots in oak brown and wood in leather brown, green was just greenskin. Shields were painted in a few coats of white for the transfers. The white cloth was then washed in GW apothecary white, while everything else was washed in strong tone.
When everything was dry I then picked out the initial colours again. Red hair was done with abomination red and pure red. While blonde hair was done with the reaper blonde triad. The fur was just a drybrush of skeleton bone over washed leather brown.
Transfers from little big men studios were then applied.
