Draconis does….. The Silver Bayonet

1st November 2024

I found these goblins while I was looking for the giant rats, and as I said previously I am trying where possible to make use of minis I already own rather than buying new. They were primed with the other Reaper bones minis.

I decided that I wanted to try to give them quite bright skin, so opted to take the skin tone up from a darkish green through to yellow in several stages. At this point I also decided to go with a dark pink for the inside of the ears. As such, I tested it out on one of the gobbos 😊

Happy enough with that, I began the process of rolling it out onto the other 7 minis. The clothing I decided to paint with various shades of brown, mostly contrast, so that the skin would remain the main focus.

Once that was done it was the usual stages of picking out details, weapons, bandage wraps on the arms and legs (in hindsight I should have just washed these rather than painting in over black), eyes and teeth.

For the ones with torches I thought I would try to do a bit of object source lighting on them. Its nothing something I have tried often (but I was quite happy with what I did on Darth Maul in one of my Star Wars projects), but just wanted to try to push myself a little. Started out by thinning down some yellow contrast and putting it down in a reasonably large area that would be hit by the light of the torch. Then I added progressively smaller areas, building up strength in the yellow highlight area. I also added a small area of lighting to each of the bases.

I think it worked reasonably well, but would probably have been better if I hadn’t already highlighted the skin tones up to yellow.

Here they are all ready to go for their one scenario.