Saga "The Old Worldish"

I’m proud of myself. Yes, it’s only half the base colours down but just cracking on is a real win for me.

I’ve not decided on what paint method to use yet, Army painter, GW, or a mix of the above. The goal is to get the base colours blocked out and then decide.

I was unsure as to what to do the skin tone as I wanted to try and distinguish it from the fur and the legs, but painting flesh scares me. Or rather did till I was thinking back to the XLBS last week with Mr Soule when he was talking about NMM and highlighting and that its all the same but in different colours (I paraphrase of course and that may not be what he meant, but that is what I have taken from it). I wouldn’t be nervous about painting orc flesh so why should I be worried about man flesh?

So emboldened I commenced with that well known skin tone… German Camouflage Pale Brown. And honestly it was better than I could have hoped. I started with the skin as it was the lowest point of the model. That’s probably the wrong phrase, what I am trying to say is that everything else is placed on top of it – armour, fur, horns etc. So, working form the inside out.

Next was the leather areas, then the metals, then the bone elements and then the cloth.

So, paints used:

Undercoat: Halford Grey Primer

Skin: German Camouflage Pale Brown (70.825)

Leather: Leather Brown (70.871)

Metal (silver): Gunmetal (72.054)

Metal (gold): Polished Gold (72.055)

Horns, bones and weapon cloth wraps: Bone White (72.034)

Cloth: German Fieldgrey WWII (70.830)