Kingdom Death:Monster – What have I gotten myself into??!!!
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About the Project
I finally bit the proverbial bullet last year and jumped into the deliciously insane, macabre and horrifically beautiful world of Kingdom Death. It all started when one of my viewers over on Twitch sent me a mini to paint as a gift. Loved it so much so I had a renewed look into the game and all the minis that are part of the world. Then I was given another mini as a present from another viewer and I was hooked and got the core game from BackerKit. So all I get done for this amazing game and world will be going HERE! Hope you enjoy as much as I am :)
Related Game: Kingdom Death: Monster
Related Company: Kingdom Death
Related Genre: Survival
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Smiths n Speakers
Havent posted in a wee while but have been busy at it. Since moving back to Ireland from Korea, life has been a bit………. hectic! Finally got studio set up and managed…. kind of…… to get back to streaming. Internet in rural Ireland is …… hmmm…..let’s put it this way, I have been considering looking into carrier pigeons o.O
Annnnnnnnyway – paint has continued to flow! KD:M wise I’ve been working on trying to clear a few more on the ridiculous stockpile I seem to have accumulated. Slowly working on the weaponsmith but still kinda stumped on a base to make for him…
Weaponsmith has taken a wee bit of a back seat though to the Death High White Speaker. Love love this mini. She’s not finished yet but getting close. Just need to finish up her bag and bokun and then its to final touches.
The base was pretty simple to make but goes nicely with the mini I think.
Just two layers of cork beermat and then gravel and grit. The tentacle is simply made from greenstuff. The road was painted up in layers of differnt greys, washed back down, layered up, washed back down and then a final overbrush of highlight. Mini and base were done almost exclusively with S75 ScaleColour paints
No rest till Lion
Working on this bad boy all day. Not leaving my desk till he is finished!!! KD:Ms White Lion. Break out the coffee – one way or another – he’s getting finished today!!!!
The Forsaker Finished
Finished up the Forsaker yesterday and well happy with him. The sword was a bit of an arse to get right but got there in the end. The base is very simply a bit of bark from the garden (Lawson Cypress apparently) painted up with some anthracite grey, ardennes green, graphite grey from S75, Schminke titanium white and washed back with a mix of nuln oil, coelia greenshade and lahmium medium from GW.
The Forsaker himself was done with a very limited pallet – VMC dark sea blue mixed with S75 flat black and anthracite grey for the armour then highlighted up wiht Schminke titanium white added. Helmet and mask – Ardennes Green, tenere yellow and ……….yup schminke white!!!
Any C&C – please feel free 🙂
Little bit of progress.......very little.
Prologue survivors finally finished and a crappy photo taken! Glad to have them done and dusted and ready for the meat pit 😉
as my glasses are Still being awaited on ( >< ) more building and prepping goes on. The Cloak of the Butcher always bothered me as the skulls were kinda comical and looked more like they came from Tim Burton than Adam Poots so I fixed them. Gouged out the originals and sanded down the back of some skulls from the GW box of skulls as replacements. Much much happier now 🙂
The Forsaker
Realised I had a load of the wee KD:M brown boxes that need the painty love. So broke two out, got ’em prepped, primed and ready to go. Started with The Forsaker – older sculpt and stil one of my favourites. The fluff behind him is simple enough – he’s completely off his nuts insane. Bonkers. Crackers n Cheese. Love him. There is still a fair bit of mystery about the character. Seems forsakers are actually survivors who lose it. Evenutally they become the Butcher???…..?!
Anywho – made a start on him. Base colours down and thats as far as I could go as I have no glasses till next week when I pick them up from the Opticians >< Arghhhhh!!!
Surviving
Finally back home in Ireland and the new studio is up and running. First order of paintage – finish these damn survivors so I can start playing!
The Pariah
Started work on another of my favourite KD:M sculpts – The evil nasty that is The Pariah!! The fluff behind him is ……. well, judge for yourself!! from the Wiki –
”
The Pariah is the last male white speaker. He violated the vows of the white speaker cult by murdering countless white speakers, unraveling the quivering lobes of their brains, to piece together a forbidden story hidden in the cult’s members.
Once learned, the story bestowed the Pariah with Cyclopean Empathy, a means of communication so deep and personal that it could speak to the core of a person with a single gesture. The Pariah’s empathy is so complete that he can manipulate any wounded heart to obey his capricious whims.
The white speaker cult erased knowledge of the Pariah from all members save for the Red Witches who were tasked with hunting down the Pariah.”
Skin is really not my forte at all and I find I tend to wing it alot and every model is an experiment. So with that in mind I decided to try and get a workup of some sort documented and written down.
Quick black then white rattle prime to kick off. Lateral priming (the white is sprayed not from the zenithal point directly overhead but from a high side angle)Next should be a photo of the verdaccio undercoat but derpy me forgot to take a bloody photograph of that stage. Verdaccio is an italian underpainting technique used in frescos which i’ve been experimenting with a bit. I am planning on doing a post just on its usage later on. For now though – bascially you undercoat the model (over the primer but under the actual paints you are going to have as the final workup) with a dull olive gray green. I went for a desaturated grey green here in S75 field gray with a little drop of ardennes green mixed in. Once that was done I sketched in some highlight areas bu adding a little cold off white into the mix with S75 Nacar.
From that verdaccio base I used thinned mojave white as the base tone for The Pariah’s skin. Letting the field grey glwo through a little in the darker shadow areas but only subtley.
Next I wanted to add some life to the skin. This stage is super important. Although I want the final skin to be very pale and unhealthy, I do not want it to look lifeless. This can be a big problem when painting pale skintones - it comes out looking dead and lifeless. Look at your own skin - you can see the life beneath the skin; the blood veins and vessels, the glow of whats keeping you ticking!!! So I went in with some glazes. First I made a reaaaaaaaally thin glaze from S75 basic flesh and glazed that into teh areas of midtone and shadow - leaving out some of the more lit high areas. Then I added a tiny amount of deep red into the glaze, thinned it further and pushed this glaze into the reccess and areas below the mid tone. Finally to make sure it wasnt looking too healthy - I glazed in a little S75 sherwood green just in the darkest areas. 
And this is where we are now. With thinned down S75 Mojave white and a brush tip of basic flesh mixed in I've started to refine the skin. Smoothing out and over some of the previous bright glazes to bring back the pale palour I'm wanting and also bringing up the areas most touched by the light source(s). So much still to do but that's its so far. Any question - plz feel free to ask :DSpeak To The Mountain
Finally finished up two KD:M minis that have been sitting on my WiP shelf staring at me for ages!
The Mountain ManFrst up is the creepy but super cool Mountain Man. I absolutely adore this model and he was a pleasure to paint. I had to eventually call him done as I kept going back and fiddling around with a few more glazes etc.
Secondly I finally got the White Speaker finished. I love the art, the lore and everything behind this model but for some reason she was an absolute arse to finish. Just …. not sure what. Didnt enjoy painting her as much as usually do. Meh. She’s done now 🙂
The White Speaker
Now to just get on and actually finish up the prologue survivors adn finally make a start on the White Lion!!
Lantern Light
Still trying to get these prologue survivors actually finished. Got a little bit more done y’day but still loads to do :/
Still working them. Some nearly done, some not so much ><
The Mountain Man, one of my favourite sculpts is neeeeeeeeearly done. Just need to finish off the tatts on his skin skirt. The fresh blood on the inside of the flayed skin was a pain!!!
Still working away on my prologue surviviors – trying to do the whole lantern lite OSL thingy. Still sooooo much to do but happy how they are coming along. Still need to deepen the shadows some more then refine the robes, hair, ink eyes etc
