2024 Painting Log

Shatterpoint seems to be doing a mix between well known characters and deep cuts, so hopefully they’ll get to Baylan Skoll and his apprentice eventually. Technically Ray Stevenson is already in the game as Gar Saxon, but one could argue that the relationship between a tiny plastic miniature and the actor who voiced the character in an animated TV series is tenuous at best.

In the mean time, we do have Mr. Stevenson represented in what is arguably the best role of his career, that of Titus Pullo, the weirdly lucky Roman legionnaire from the TV series Rome, along with his co-star Lucius Vorenus.

The models are from Warlord’s Hail Caesar range. If I use them for anything it will be Gangs of Rome, but I decided against the usual cobblestone bases just to keep my options open. These were painted using the triad method, starting with black primer and working up through three different successively lighter shades of each color. I’m still playing around with the technique — so far I think it looks pretty good at tabletop distance (the only thing that really matters) but less so under the camera’s much closer scrutiny. It also takes a good deal longer than my usual base coat → wash (or speedpaint) → drybrush method, and while I appreciate the increased control over where the paint goes, I’m not sure the end results look any better.

2024 models painted so far: 197, for 5 different games