2024 Painting Log

I seem to be jumping around randomly between games and projects as I work on clearing my shelf of opportunity. The challenge with this approach is in making the models from the different games and ranges look consistent, as I’m often finding myself using different painting styles depending on the game.

For Gangs of Rome I’ve been fairly consistently using slap chop (are we really okay with that name now?). I thought the last batch I did were a little too dark (although Ben seemed to like them), so this time I started with grey primer rather than black, and drybrushed up from there for the base coat. I finished them off primarily with Speedpaints, but I had some issues making the skin look right so I went back over the faces, arms and feet with a more traditional base coat then wash approach. The final step was a drybrush with Reaper Yellowed Bone to bring up the highlights just a bit.

The Speedpaints definitely lived up to their name — I was able to get this entire batch of 14 models done in about 10 hours (from bare metal to finished and varnished), spread out over three sessions. Not bad considering all the different colors involved.

These Roman civilians are from Warlord’s Hail Caesar range. They don’t have any rules or stats for Gangs of Rome, so they’ll most likely just be for table decoration. Maybe I should count them as a TerrainFest project? I may do up some gang fighter stats for a few of them — the Celtic bodyguard certainly looks like he could start some trouble, and who knows what that merchant has hidden in his treasure chest?

2024 models painted so far: 211, for 5 different games