Necromunda: Hive War (a Painting Challenge)

So, I completely forgot to post any updates of my painting the Escher gang figures! To project my inner Bart Simpson, “D’oh!”

So where am I now.  I completed the flesh following some ideas from the Vallejo box set of Fairy Flesh paints, but using the ones designated for “normal” flesh, and then washed them with the Vallejo Flesh wash. They ended up slightly darker than I expected, but overall I think they’re in keeping with the dark theme of the overall Necromunda concept.

The method was a base of “Base Flesh”74.004 followed by several layers of highlights starting with “Natural Flesh” 74.006 and a 50/50 mix of Natural Flesh and Highlight Skin 74.008. Touches of Highlight skin on its own were added and once dry a wash of “Flesh Wash” 73.204 was the final step.

I started on the rest of the figures by applying several layers of Lemon Yellow 70.952 to the chest and back armor.

It then took me quite a while to think how I wanted the rest of the figures to look.  I wanted a complete contrast to the Delaque’s grim/dark look.

So I Googled exotic plumage and came up with a number of wild looking tropical birds.  The juxtaposition of the colored feathers is really quite amazing, and so this was to become my theme for the gang.

Lots of primary colors for their hair as a starter.  So I began with painting all the hair in white to make a light base for the vibrancy of the colors to follow.

Then I just mixed some paints and went in as unconventionally as I could.

The range of colors used were all from the Vallejo range:

Lemon Yellow; Ultramarine Blue 72.022; Royal Purple 70.810; Royal Blue 70.809; Deep Green 70.970; Dark Vermillion 70.947; and a couple of Foundry pants which I used to highlight the Jacket of the Leader after a base coat of dark Vermilion, Wine Stain 17B and 17C.

On the larger hair styles, I “wet blended” some of the paints as an experiment (I’ve not done this before”, and overall I think they came out well.  I am enjoying my personal challenge, but it is far more time than I usually spend, so I might continue this with small skirmish teams, but it’s not something I’ll do for my big armies.

At this stage I was also painting leather on different parts of their outfits, and touching up small details where paint had over slipped.

I also painted all the gun/metal parts with Vallejo Gunmetal 72.054 and will come back to these later for highlighting.

So where I am now is to finish painting the rest of their general clothes/armour and pinpoint the little extra things that will hopefully “pop” the figures.

So, till next time, Happy Gaming