The Miniatures Game of the Video Game of the Miniatures Game

Well the good folk at OTT appear to like the cut of my jib and they’ve only granted this project a golden button. Lordy!

Wrapping up the Darktide project with the good guys, I believe they’re known as the Rejects in the video game.

There are a couple of more fancy minis: the psyker and the zealot. I’ve painted neither before and enjoyed them greatly. I’m particularly chuffed with the flames. They’re the least contrasty I’ve done and I think they’re better for it. I live and learn.

Then we have the more military looking fellas: the Ogryn and Kasrkin (aka the sharpshooter). Again new minis to me – similar as they are to my regular Imperial Guard. I enjoyed both greatly and am tempted to get some more next time I’m spending time (and cash) on more Guard. Lovely stuff.

The Ogryn’s been the subject of a few complaints as he doesn’t look like the big guy from the game, but for me he’s perfect. Of all the heads to include it’s the Goonies head. Thank you GW!

Here we go with the smelly, limbs-fally-offy Nurgle boys. Here I wanted to try out a bruised skin tone. So I started with purple and layered up with more and more flesh tones mixed in. It’s not brilliant but worth a go, and they’re done now.

It did take time though. About 10 mins per model, times six so an hour per layer. Multiply by several layers and it took time. I have more of these in my future for another project and I’ll break out the contrast paints for those.

Despite the time taken I enjoyed painting these. Painting Nurgle is a great time!

Continuing I have the final five naughty guardsmen, this time all lasgun equipped grunts. As before I’ve followed the instructions to make sure each one is recognisable from his activation card (I really like that mechanic btw).

I kicked off with the traitor guard – there are 10 of them. I did the specialists first because they were first on the instructions. I’ve been very faithful to the instructions as each model has its own card used for activation and I wanted my models to match.

They’re dashed nice minis, some of the best human models I’ve seen from GW.