Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

It’s Sunday morning on a bank holiday weekend.  I’ve got a D&D game to run tonight so I can’t paint all day.  On to the red.  I tried drybrushing on the highlights here for speed, but it really didn’t work.  I couldn’t safely do it in most places, and it just made a mess of things. I had to go back over it with traditional highlights, but I’m sure you can still see some of it.  This was painted on both Weiss’s, both prison wardens ties, and on the Teraton.

Red

Base GW Evil Sunz Scarlet
Wash GW Carroburg Crimson
Reclaim with base where appropriate
Highlight with GW Wild Rider Red

Thats the Weiss twins finished, and the Wardens and a few brush strokes off too.  let’s get them done next

Badges and Buttons

GW Retributor Armour

Shoes

Base P3 Umbral Umber
Drybrush P3 Beast Hide
2 Washes of GW Nuln Oil

That’s them done.  Five models already finished this weekend, with a target of three.  Time to spread the love around the others.  Let’s focus on skin and hair so I can batch paint clothing etc as appropriate.  I did the African flesh yesterday, so lets do their hair next

African hair

Base 75:25 P3 Umbral Umber:Black
Drybrush P3 Bloodstone (Its a redish brown)
Wash GW Nuln Oil

While that’s drying, lets look at the Blaines.  I’ve already glazed a few coats of P3 Turquoise Ink over their zenithal’ed trousers, so lets do their skin

Blaine Flesh

Base P3 Hammerfal Khaki
Wash P3 Rucksack Tan.  I really didn’t like this.  It didn’t look right.  Don’t do it.
Wash p3 Beast Hide
Drybrush GW Screaming Skull

Lets go back to Coach Fergus.  I did some airbrush work on his flesh a while back, but he needs finishing.

Base 50/50 Mr Paint MRP-F074 Purple Shadow with Mr Paint MRP-F039 Swamp Green, airbrushed all over
High 1 from sides and above only , 1:2 Purple Shadow : Swamp Green
High 3 Swamp Green from above only
Pin wash 1 Purple Shadow
Pin wash 2 Purple Shadow with a little black
Drybrush 1 Swamp green mixed with Mr paint MRP-F062 Undead Skin
Drybrush 2 Undead Skin
The mouth insides were given two coats of GW Carroburg Crimson after this pic was taken

I’ve only found one example of this guy painted online.  There’s not even some company artwork for him.  I wasn’t sure I wanted to copy this paint job as it looks like more work, and trickier work than I’m looking for in this project, but let’s go for it.  if I’d made this decision earlier I would have included him in with Weiss’s red.  Probably best I didn’t as that didn’t go too well.

Fergus’s Red Cloth

Base P3 Khador Red Base
Pin Wash Carroburg Crimson
Reclaim where needed
High 1 Khador Red Base mixed with some P3 Khador Red Highlight
High 2 add more Khador Red Highlight
High 3 just Khador Red Highlight on select spots

Next up, is his yellow jacket.  There’s also yellow on the scientist guy, Dr. Zarathusa Kain so lets grab him too.

Fergus’s Yellow Jacket

Base 50/50 Miniature Paints MP0088 Golden Brown and Miniature Paints MP0061 Canary Yellow
Targeted Shade with just thinned Golden Brown
High 1 with thinned Canary Yellow
High 2 add some Miniature Paints MP0064 Lemon yellow to above.  Then add some more
High 3 just Lemon yellow for glints and edges

I also painted the scientists collar, but forgot his belt.  This turned out to be for the best later, when I got to work on his white coat

Leather Collar Thing

Base P3 Beast Hide
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade
Brybrush P3 Jack Bone

At some point I also finished off the green Flesh tones I’d started a week or two ago on Blitz and Ardia Shi’Lek, and the Treebeasts vines

Green Flesh

Base Coat d’Arms Tank Drab
High 1 50/50 Tank Drab and Coat d’Arms Khaki
High 2 Khaki
High 3 50/50 Khaki and Coat d’Arms Putrid Green
High 4 Putrid Green
Wash with Instar Camo Green Wash

With her flesh done, I then painted Ardia’s dress and the dwarf’s tunic the same colour: Sanguine

The last thing I got done was to apply a base coat of white on Coaches Fergus  and Tracer, and Dr. Zarathusa Kain.  I’ve gone for two large brush fulls of P3 Morrow White mixed with one drop of VMC 70.992 Neutral Grey (The lightest pure grey I think I have).  I’ll look in to pin washing the shade next time I sit down to paint.