Head over Heels - Dungeonalia entry

So the printer went burrrr and some miniatures appeared.
Determined not to get hung up with unpainted minis, I decided to go with just a quick and dirty paintjob to get them tabletop-ready.
Which meant “slapchop”.

But I forgot the golden rule of contrast/speed paints: they don’t look great over large, smooth surfaces. So painting what is essentially a round ball with a nose on the front with Iyanden Yellow Contrast Paint probably wasn’t the best idea.

But I reckon, apart from a little coffee staining, I might have got away with it.
When the finer details – like the “shine line” across his nose – are added, they should be enough to be distract from the blotchy base coat!

I persevered with the Mr Heels character and it gave me heart – not exactly my best work (I’ve mislaid my times-three magnifying glasses so had to paint by holding my minis almost at arms length and squinting!) but not terrible in real life (close up photos are pretty unforgiving – it looks much better IRL)

As part of my rush to get the minis done, I didn’t bother with a wet palette and applied paint straight from the pot. In hindsight, I think this might have been a mistake – it didn’t take any less time to actually paint the minis, but there are very definite texture lines on some of the paint colours, which probably wouldn’t be there if I’d thinned the paints, even just a little.

Still – as a “quick” job to get the minis onto the tabletop (so I can actually focus on the game element of this project) I’m not exactly disappointed either.

I had all kinds of ideas for layering up Dalek Charlie, for example.
I tried drybrushing one of them (I printed two) multiple different shades of silver, to get a nice, gradient effect. But it didn’t look too different from the other, which I just slapped a layer of silver on.
I reckon by the time I’ve smothered them both in nuln oil then added some “shining silver” edge highlights, it’d be almost impossible to tell the two apart.

So, from now on, it’s quick-and-dirty paintjobs to get them done.
Any that need more work – well I can always come back to it as next year’s “spring clean challenge” I guess.