Kharegims RPG minis

So once again I was feeling a bit bored of what I was currently working on so I decided to take a break and look among my rpg for something quick and fun. Lo and behold I rediscovered this liche king model which had sat primed in Vallejo black for years.

I started by airbrushing his base with AP necromancer cloak, followed by Vallejo gray and then light gray. I thereafter layered AP necromancer cloak on his black robes and the base edge. Followed by an edge highlight of AP uniform gray on his robes. I then gave all metal bits a solid layer of AP gun metal, while the leather and the skull was given a layer of AP leather brown. I then stippled on all of the metal areas some necromancer cloak. Then to create rust I picked out some spots on the metal with AP dry rust. I then layered on weapon bronze. I then washed all the metal and leather in a thin coat of AP strong tone.

The bone was then layered in AP desert yellow followed by very fine edge layering with AP skeleton bone. I then used a very fine detail brush to paint in the eye sockets with AP matt white, which was followed with a layer of AP hawk turquoise and then a final dot of AP royal cloak.

His actual cloak was just two thin layers of AP deep blue, followed by edge highlights of 50/50 mix of deep blue and AP griffon blue.

The fur on the cloak was first layered in a 50/50 mix of leather brown and desert yellow followed by a rough layer with a drybrush of skeleton bone.

By this stage the metal was dry and so I reapplied some selective gun metal and dry rust.

The model was then varnished through my airbrush with AP anti-shine matt varnish.

All in all he only took an hour or so but I’m pleased with him and he was a fun distraction to get me vack into painting.

So as a fun side project I just picked a figure from my pile and decided the river troll would be great to try and experiment with, especially using water effects.

So once he was assembled and the gaps were filled I primed him in AP uniform grey, I then put some elf green through my airbrush to base coat the model followed by a dry brush of AP commando green. I then gave some parts of him like the fins a coating of GW nihilakh oxide, I then mixed some AP blue tone with elemental bolt to create a sort wash that I applied all over. When that was dry I did another drybrush of commando green, followed by witch brew selectively.

The inside of the mouth was painted in AP barbarian flesh, washed in AP flesh wash and then relayed with barbarian flesh. All the teeth, finger and toenails plus the teeth of the fish were first layered in AP oak brown, followed by AP desert yellow, then finally AP skeleton bone.

The eyes were just AP daemonic yellow with a black dots and white spots to emulate shine.

The fish was painted in AP wolf grey, then washed in AP blue tone, before being roughly rehighlighted in wolf grey. The eyes of the fish were just black, layered with AP necromancer cloak and then the shine was created with AP uniform grey and AP matt white.

Once everything was done I did the base which first involved Armageddon dust from GW drybrushed in skeleton bone with tufts from gamers grass. I then glued some cattails i got from a hobby store for model trains. I then put masking tape around the base and poured the first layer of Vallejo still water mixed with some blue tone. I let that dry but found I wasn’t happy with the blue and so poured some more this time mixed with AP strong tone, I then let that dry before using Vallejo water effects (the brush one almost pva type stuff) to build waves. I let that dry and then did a final pour of still water with a bit less strong tone.

For my first attempt at water effects I was happy with the result if not the messy execution of it (the masking tape didn’t hold very well and I had some spills). If I were to do it again I’d invest in proper masking tape or try some other way to create a barrier for the water!

Ice troll I based up using a dungeon saga 50mm base, the idea was to be able to use him for that too!

• By now if it’s not become clear, the rpg minis I have painted are an assortment of odds and ends, things I normally painted as a palate cleanser between army projects. Here are my reaper bones skeletons and liche, these were alot of fun and fairly easy to do. The basing in particular is something I want to document here. I started with Vallejo engine Gray, followed by sea gray and then a final highlight of light Gray all put through my airbrush. The actual bases are the dungeon saga bases I bought a heap of!

Another fun freaky project I did was this dark young miniature from reaper bones, it’s a freaky thing and using a mix of army painters glistening blood and games workshops blood for the blood god I think I created a truly disturbing black glossy blood effect. Plus the pale white contrasting with black is always good for horror fun!

Another figure I painted years ago was the reaper bones hydra. I only recently based him up using a mixture of Luke’s APS base ready material and army painter and gamers grass tufts. I wish I had written down how I painted him since I do like his skin colour.

So when I first got back into rpgs was around the time 4th edition and was out, it apparently sucked and I wound up playing pathfinder first edition instead (which let’s be real, is just dnd 3.5) I started by painting the reaper bones pathfinder red dragon and I have no clue how I painted him since that was a few years ago. But anyways here he is! I basically decided I wanted him to look like he’s come straight from the cover of the core book, so I have.

I also finished a blue dragon, called narthrax by reaper minis, he was alot of fun but trouble was I can’t remember how I painted him! But that’s a big reason I’m doing this blog now, to document how I painted all my figures that complete from now on!