SAGA Challenge

We are away on holiday for a week, so this isn’t really an update, but a broader explanation of the painting approach I plan to take with my son.

In order to make it as soft an production to painting miniatures, I think that using contrast paints “should” be easier than more traditional methods. That said, in any case I’m going for a fast table top finish depending on the 3′ view being paramount.

In the following images I show the figure with the appropriate paint.  Everything is simple, just apply the paint and hope the Zenithal highlighting together with the contrast paint does the business for me.

The last image with the two paints – yellow and brown – resulted in a poor finish. I had hoped that applying the yellow first (as an additional undercoat) than the brown would result in a muted brown. But it didn’t really work that way. later on I added another coat of yellow, but I don’t like the result, and will probably use an ordinary paint to simulate cloth.

I don’t have any metallic contrast paints (actually I don’t even know if they exist!)  so I used “Gunmetal” from Vallejo.  This I applied straight onto the metal parts, but for the chainmail, I diluted it to more of a wash and will probably dry brush this later with silver to bring out the high points.

I used white on the shield to make a cross (a bit “wobbly!) and may have to touch this up later. Brass for the buckles and crucifix, and Iraqi Sand for the strap holding the crucifix and as a dry brush on the ground cover.  The final touch of blue on the chain mail is probably unnecessary so I may leave that out for Anton’s paint scheme.

The final pictures are the finish quick paint job.  It’s a bit like a paint-by-numbers approach. But en masse I think they will do.  The non-chain mail figures will just have a block of one color or another using the contrast paint to form he necessary highlights and shadows.

So, in ten days or so, I hope we’ll have some painted troops to share.

In the meantime, Happy Gaming