Spring Clean 2021 - Totally historically accurate fantasy Celtic army

It took me a lot longer to paint these eight minis than it normally would. I think it mainly came down to motivation, so I’m going to switch to something totally different next and see if that rekindles my interest. I made a deliberate choice with this project to take my time and not force it through.

For this project I’ve gone back to by pre-contrast technique, which is the Games Workshop base, shade, and two highlights approach.

The skin was painted rakarth flesh, washed reikland fleshshade, then highlighted flayed one flesh followed by pallid wych flesh.

The clothes were painted mournefang brown, washed agrax earthshade, then highlighted skrag brown followed by deathclaw brown.

The wood was painted dryad bark, washed agrax eathshade, then highlighted gorthor brown followed by baneblade brown.

The metal areas were painted mechanicus standard grey, washed nuln oil, then highlighted dawnsotne followed by administratum grey.

The hair was painted tausept ochre, washed seraphim sepia, then highlighted balor brown followed by zamesi desert.

The bases were painted stirland mud then covered in a custom basing mix following the technique given in this Gerry Can video: https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/gerry-can-how-to-make-custom-basing-mix/

My basing mix consisted of:

• fine sand, which I believe was an old basing product from GW which I bought about 15 years ago
• green static grass, which again is the leftovers of a GW basing product from about 10 years ago
• green stuff world’s spring undergrowth
• green stuff world’s summer 3 colour clump foliage mix
• woodland scenics green grass fine turf