Tiny Vermintide

I’ve painted up all the models I have, so a good time to pause and take stock. This isn’t a viable army for Warmaster, but I can quickly add in more units and Heroes. It is certainly a solid core, and has been a fun side project.

Things that went well – reigning back the level of detail painted. I wanted to deliberately focus on the bigger impact of lots 10mm models rather than getting bogged down with precise painting.

I’m quite happy with the colour scheme. It is a nightmare to photograph well, compounded by the smaller scale models, and that’s something I need to consider how to best approach I the future.

The basing is disappointing,  particularly on the rat swarms. I had an idea of a sentry looking out and scrubbing his eyes as the ground before them seemed to heave and churn, baffling him until the realisation that it was a swarm of rodents chittering in a great mass rushing forward. Reads great, but not a sensible idea for something this visual. I really fell foul of forgetting to consider the scale of the models vs the base material, so a good lesson learnt.

Sets of jezzails, ratling guns and warpfire throwers to accompany the engineer.

I decided that alternating painting clanrat units with something else was a sensible way to try and avoid too much of the same thing grinding down motivation.

Lots of detail on these rat ogres that I haven’t really done justice, but still happy with the overall look.

First hero finished, very clearly meant to be Lord Skrolk (even if he is holding everything in different hands).

A second lot of clanrats have also been painted.

These were quite fun and fast to paint. I concentrated mostly on painting the upper parts of the rats, leaving the bottom just in the grey primer. I liked the impression it gave of a mass of ratty bodies swarming along, with lots of self-shadowing.