Warhammer Fantasy Revisited

Have taken the block of daemonettes about as far as I want to. Actually quite happy with the way that they have turned out and I don’t want to risk doing too much more to them at this point in case I screw them up. So they are parked until I can get a matt coat over them all then I will do the gold jewelery on the character (I’m thinking any oopsies will be easier to correct if done on top of the matt varnish…) and then I’ll base with the 2 blocks of Slaanesh chaos warriors. Better photos thereafter – the below is the least out-of-focus one I took apparently…

Additionally got the Bretonnian characters horse painted (a couple of thin coats of AP Oak brown) and got an AP strong tone varnish coated on him. Not sure what happened with the varnish but it went on much darker than usual (perhaps I hadn’t mixed thoroughly enough?…), so got an old brush and some mineral turpentine and brushed the raised areas back to where I was happy with. Also got a base coat down on the 10 Chaos cav and 2 chariot beasties (basecoat Vallejo German cam Black Brown, first highlight AP Dirt Splatter, 2nd highlight AP Werewolf Fur).

And finally, my goal for the next few weeks is to get the below painted up to the AP dip stage, dip and matt varnish and then base everything that I have queued up. So painting 10 cav, 2 chariots, 90+foot and baseing same and another 50 infantry. If I can do that, I’ll have painted over 1,000 fantasy minis in this calendar year, or 12 forces worth in 12 months. Will be a wee bit of a push but let’s see where we land 😉

Brief addendum as I’ll forget the recipe if I don’t jot it down now…

Daemonettes got  a targeted thin glaze/wash of purple ink to the recesses, edges & shadows on their skin tones. Metal areas were Vallejo Brass. Cloth was a base of Vallejo Deck Tan, both cloth and metal then shaded with a targeted hit of homemade black wash. Cloth subsequently highlighted in Vallejo Ivory (could afford a retouch of the Deck Tan next time to soften the contrast post-wash). Bone protrusions coloured with AP Skeleton Bone.