Painting models with oil paints
Step One
Firstly, meet the victim for this experiment. This lovely metal miniature is from Black Hallows and was given free as part of a kickstarter that I backed (I forget which one). This particular chap is apparently called Odibrand Winterrock and he’s the town blacksmith. He’s scaled for 28mm.
Odibrand was not a single cast miniature and required the base gluing to the cobblestones (which are metal) and his hand holding the hammer gluing to his arm. I’ve pinned the feet into the base and also put a pin into the anvil ready to be mounted once it is painted up.
Meet Odibrand
As you can see from the images above, I’ve managed to prime the model and then splatter a zenithal highlight over him. Not my finest work with the airbrush. You’ll also notice that I’ve not bothered too much with the clean up and there are a few mould lines.
I’ll start by painting the base colours with acrylic paint as per the video I linked in. This is to provide a guide as to where to apply my oil colours.
I’m more interested in seeing how different colours work and blend on the model rather than trying to come up with a nice looking colour scheme. Hence the red trousers and my least favourite colour, a white shirt.
I’ll start with painting the trousers and see how I get on with that.
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