Old Skool Goodies, Baddies and Whatever

Its been a hectic week at work, but despite this I was able to get around to more painting and to finish off this latest batch of Goblins.

spearheads, scythes and other “iron” metals were given a heavy drybrush with chainmail.

The gongs drybrushed with dwarf bronze, then another drybrush with 50/50 dwarf bronze/ shining gold and a final drybrush over the moon with the bronze/gold mix with some added silver.

Belts were picked out with a 60/40 mix of Graveyard Earth /white. This mix was also used to highlight the stalks and undersides of the mushrooms, the skulls and individual teeth. More white was added to further highlight the skulls and teeth.

White was added to the remaining Yellow/Yellow Ochre mix in the wet pallet and this was applied as a careful highlight layer over the moon designs.

A fairly thick coat of neat scarlet was applied to the shield rims and tops of the mushrooms. and finally blobs of white were added to the mushrooms for that proper look!

I then gave everything a coat of matt varnish.

The final stage which is my personal favourite part (NOT!) is the basing! It always seems to me that basing takes up far longer than any other part of the painting process! I know this is not true …. it just sems that way!

Bases were firstly given a coat of pva glue and dipped in sand.

Once dry I paint the whole base with my own dark earth mix. When I first moved from using enamel paints to acrylics I missed the old Airfix Enamel Dark Earth brown so I did my best using various cheap acrylic paints to mix up a batch, which is in effect a darker less yellow Graveyard Earth. (This was so long ago that Citadel paints hadn’t been invented!).

The sand surface was  highlighted with a cheap cream paint and the sides of the bases given a coat of graveyard earth.

Static grass was added to complete the look. I always try to apply an odd number of grass tufts/areas, i.e. 1, 3, 5, etc, as this looks more realistic than even numbers, but will add the occasional even number if there are a good few bases to do.

So that is this unit complete.

I still have a half complete unit of wolf riders ( visible in the background on 1 of the photos at the start of the project),  Spider riders and troll to do, but rather than getting bored painting similar things for the next part I will move to another selection of Old Skool minis, maybe something from even further back in time!