SAGA Challenge

Slow progress this week, but we did at least get to the point where the figures were built and ready for base coating.  I have for some time now been using wooden slats and double-sided sellotape – other brands are available 😉 – to hold my figures for this process.

As I previously mentioned, I mount the plastic figures onto coins of the right appropriate size to add some weight and secure them with a UHU type of glue. So far this has worked without any adverse issues, so this was the option I chose for this game as well.

The preparation of the paint job is straight forward, although I will be trying my hand at Zenithal (spelling?) highlights this time in order to seed up and simplify the painting process for my son. I am no great shakes at figure paining and these are not intended for competition, so as simple and quick a paint job as necessary is the name of the game.

The pictures are simply the steps from mounting through Black > Grey > White undercoating.  I think I might do a little dry brushing in white especial around the faces before we start to paint.

One thing we notice after last week where I mentioned making a kind of ground paste for the figures was that this might be missing a trick, in that the paste was a natural ground cover in its own right.

So I stopped applying the paste and instead took the dried figures (post base coating) and mixed some PvA glue and Raw Sienna acrylic paint with some fine and rough sand (with a little water) to make a paste which had a light brown tint.

I will experiment with different acrylics, but the idea is that once dry this ground cover will only need some limited application of grass and tufts and then done.

We’ll see hw that gets, but initial pictures seem to be interesting.

So, that’s it for now.  Next weekend we hope to start painting, but the weekend after we are off for a break, so probably no update then.

In the meantime: Happy Gaming