Assorted Miniature Projects

Another test of some skills this week as I took on the challenge of painting the exceptionally poppy and bright coloured Stuff Fables characters from Plaid Hat Games board game. Here are the first four miniatures from the set of six…

These miniatures were very much an exercise in patience. It took a lot to paint them up and get them finished, especially once you work through the shading element. It takes a lot of repainting and being very, very careful around the edges of different elements to retain that comic book look.

Also – I could very easily have painted these without the shading and I think they would still have been fine haha.

I finally got around to starting work on Vax, the first of the Critical Role miniatures by Steamforged Games. He is a bugger to paint but I think the model has started to come together nicely…

Alas you will notice that he is missing one of his daggers. Unfortunatly it got snapped off in the casing which is a shame but I have still worked to try and make him look good.

I need to touch up a few bits of the miniature but otherwise I think he has come out really nicely. I would love to be confident enough to paint him entirely black like the character in question but I think the blues and greys help.

I am looking forward to getting the other miniatures from the Kickstarter (at some point) and having fun painting up the other characters, especially Grog.

Another of the new characters for the Dunkeldorf range has now been finished for use in some Oldhammer adventures. Meet Gunther…

Happy with how this fellow turned out, a lot of fun doing the stripes and getting that ginger facial hair rocking on his noggin.

Looking forward to finishing things off with Bertha soon!

I also finally got round to finishing off the DOOM Guy from Klukva Miniatures last night. He took an age to paint between other projects as he was mostly painted with washes of orange and green on a white basecoat.

I’m happy with how he turned out and whilst I could have worked a lot more detail into the armour and the gun I think it has worked as a little vignette piece.

I need to work on some basing for him now, probably going with Astrogranite as a good darker scheme against the bright green. It’s not Martian dust but it’ll work.

I might then throw a bit of Blood For The Blood God onto the base in splashes and on the claws of the demon.

So I realised that the stubble/beard was terrible and so I shaved Herman from the Dunkeldorf range.

I am now a lot happier with the miniature and think the scheme works much better. Still getting stuck into some of the other characters and should have them done this week!

I was very kindly sent some of the miniatures from the upcoming Dunkeldorf Kickstarter campaign and I can say that they’ve really hit the nail on the head with these.

They look like the concept artwork we saw not long ago and have retained a lot of the detail that they had in the sculpting stage so kudos to the team behind that.

The first character I took some time to paint up was Herman Geizhals.

I won’t pretend that I’m the best painter in the world but I think that he has come out quite well. I tried my hand at painting some stubble/beard growth onto his chin and jaw as I thought he might be the kind who looks a bit sweaty and scratchy when he’s doing his dealings.

I think he might pop a bit more once I’ve worked on the basing for him but overall I was proud of how he turned out.

I also thought I’d share images of the undercoated Bertha The Ratcatcher & Günther Hinkel too who I also got in the package!

Looking forward to painting these up. Going to go with red for the Barber Surgeon and some muddy greens and browns for the Ratcatcher!

Thanks again to King Games for sending me these to play around with.