Brimstone – Heroes part 2

The last four heroes from the Shadow of Brimstone boxes. Here you find them fighting a Slasher.

Here's the first female characters. In the Kickstarter there will be at least one male and one female miniature for each hero type, which is a great idea. They all are suitably dressed for adventure. All, except the Saloon Girl (whose male counterpart is the Piano Player, by the way). If I were she I would have slipped into something a bit more uncomfortable before going out exploring mines and other worlds. Ah, well. She'll freeze and the demons will drool... but they usually do, anyway.

Paints used:

Bandido

Shirt – Coat d’arms 240 Unbleached Wool

Pants – Vallejo 869 Basalt Grey

Boots – Formula P3 Bootstrap Leather

Sombrero – 907 Pale Greyblue

Bandolier – 876 Brown Sand

Sidebag – 983 Flat Earth

Dynamite + sash – Citadel Scab Red

Washed with Army Painter Strong Tone ink.

Indian Scout

Skin – Citadel Foundation Tallarn Flesh

Hair – 822 German Camo Black Brown

Pants – 876 Brown Sand

Shirt – 991 Dark Sea Grey

Coat – Formula P3 Gun Corps Brown

Boots – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Belt – 983 Flat Earth

Bag – 984 Flat Brown

Head band, scarf – Citadel Foundation Mechrite Red

Everything got a coat of Strong Tone wash

Rancher

Dress – 975 Military Green drybrushed with 968 Flat Green

Boots – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Hat – 876 Brown Sand

Bags - 984 Flat Brown and 876 Brown Sand

Hair – Coat d’arms 223 Horse Tone Chestnut

Everything but the dress got a wash of Strong Tone.

Saloon Girl

Dress – Citadel Foundation Mechrite Red with a wash of Citadel Baal Red

Boots – 982 Cavalry Red with a Dark Tone wash

Hair - Coat d’arms 223 Horse Tone Chestnut with a Dark Tone wash

Feather boa – white washed with AP Soft Tone and drybrushed white.

You will find the first batch of the heroes here. Click here for the rest of my painted Brimstone minis.

Brimstone – Heroes part 1

The heroes of Brimstone are on my painting table at the moment. These are the first, frantically battling a Goliath.

A bit lacking in details, especially the preacher's face is a bit of a lump.

Paints used:

Lawman and Gunslinger

Lawman

Coat – 872 Chocolate Brown

Vest – 991 Dark Sea Grey

Pants – 871 Leather Brown

Hat – 847 Dark Sand

Metal – 863 Gunmetal Grey

Holster and shoes – Formula P3 Bootstrap Leather

Washed with Army Painter Strong Tone

Gunslinger

Coat – Vallejo 984 Flat Brown

Shirt – 907 Pale Greyblue

Pants – 874 Tan Earth

Hat – 876 Brown Sand and 871 Leather Brown

Holster and shoes – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Washed with Army Painter Strong Tone

Preacher and U.S. Marshall

Preacher

Smock – Black drybrushed with 994 Dark Grey

Shoes – 876 Brown Sand

Sidebag -  871 Leather Brown

Belt-cloth – 869 Basalt Grey

Book – 872 Chocolate Brown

Shoes and sidebag washed with Army Painter Strong Tone, belt-cloth with AP Dark Tone.

Marshall

Shirt – Coat d’arms 240 Unbleached Wool

Vest – 871 Leather Brown

Pants – 876 Brown Sand

Hat – 874 Tan Earth

Boots – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Stock – 984 Flat Brown with 981 Orange Brown striations

Washed with Army Painter Strong Tone

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Click here for the rest of my painted Brimstone minis.

Rackham Orcs

I fell in love the Rackham orcs in the days when minis from Rackham was the best you could get. Fantastic details and great sculpts. The downside was and is that they take forever to paint. But you get a very nice mini when you’re finished.

I painted the flesh of these brutes with Citadel Foundation Tallarn Flesh. The other colours… your guess is as good as mine.

I based them on Sally 4^th clear 25mm bases.

I still got 10+ Rackham orcs in the tin-mountain, waiting for paint.

Colin Sponias is a new Google+ follower. Welcome.

Now, if only I could find those Rackham orc riders. Why didn't I buy them when I had the chance?

Kobolds from Castle Ravenloft, Håtunaleken and more

First a couple of pictures on the newly painted Kobolds from the Castle Ravenloft boardgame. I prefer my kobolds in the classic style as I’m an old school D&D player so these will serve as reptilian infantry instead. Ordinary boardgame minis quality wise and they got a fast paint job.

Skin – Vallejo 879 Green Brown

Metal – 863 Gunmetal Grey

Wood – 843 Cork Brown

Leather – 984 Flat Brown

Eyes – 984 Golden yellow with black slits

Washed with Army Painter Strong Tone ink and finally a coat of matte varnish.

I’ve got a lot of different minis on the table at the moment. Wolfs in different forms from several companies, the heroes from Brimstone, a couple of Rackham orcs and a German Dust-squad. You’ll see them all here soon (or not too soon, you never know).

I fell for the Conan Kickstarter halfway through it. It just proved too spectacular a deal. I did however manage to stop myself overindulging and just pledged for the basic Barbarian Pledge. So now I’m waiting for The Complete Chronicles of Conan that I ordered a couple of days ago. Should keep the Conan-itch satisfied for a while.

The set up. Good guys on the right with my troops closest to the camera.

I’m in the process of joining a local gaming club, Little Wars. The webpage is brand new and there you can find out what has happened at the club and also links to the various very good blogs made by some very talented members of the club.

My brave knights attack

At an ordinary meeting earlier in this week we had a big game of Lion Rampant with the in-club campaign Håtunaleken. Great fun even though my borrowed units (played them together with Mikael who tought me the rules) were utterly destroyed during the fight.

My troops before the fights...

Meanwhile a battle on the other side of the board

Welcome follower Black Powder with Black Powder Games from Little Wars. We had a great game of Chain of Command at the club last week. I unfortunately forgot my camera so no pictures and no AAR (We both took a severe beating and called it a draw when it was time to leave.)

My troops have disappeared somehow but assistance is on its way.

And a hearty welcome to follower Fabio Vollono. If you have a blog of your own then put a link to it in the comments below so I can link to it here.

Undead from Castle Ravenloft Boardgame

I was looking through the tin- and plastics-mountain the other day and found a bag of plastic miniatures – the remaining minis from the Castle Ravenloft boardgame that I still haven’t painted. I intend to finish all board-game minis before the next one hits me, and that means Ravenloft and Brimstone are moving to the painting table.

First the undead cannon fodder.

All were blockpainted with whatever I had handy and washed with Army Painter Strong Tone Ink.

Zombies – skin painted with Vallejo 884 Stone Grey

Ghouls – skin 971 Green Grey

Skeletons - bone white obviously. Shields where also drybrushed with 863 Gunmetal Grey to get a worn look.

The zombies actually saw action this weekend as substitute Hungry Dead in a game of Shadows of Brimstone. We, an Indian Scout and an Outlaw, managed the 'For a Handful of Darkstone' scenario and came away with a lot of loot. Great fun!

Brimstone – Hellbats

These are the Hellbats from the Brimstone - Swamps of Death box.

I like the concept, essentially winged snakelike creatures, but I am disappointed with the minis.

They are made of five parts – body, two wings, ‘head’ and tongue. Rather good fit, meaning I didn’t need that much green stuff to hide cracks. Unfortunately the details a bit lacking and that is especially noticeable where the tail wraps around the rocks on the ground and where the body coils and sort of mergers on the minis. I would have liked to see more distinct parts that do not blend into each other. I guess I could have made bigger effort with my painting to ‘separate’ the parts with shadows, but I just couldn’t bother.

Anyway, these are the paints I used:

Body – Vallejo 882 Middlestone with a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone. The backside of the wings also got a wash of Citadel Washes Thraka Green and I drybrushed the undersides with 971 Green Grey.

Claws – 034 Bone White with a Strong Tone wash

Rocks – 987 Medium Grey also washed with Strong Tone.

Mouth and tongue – 944 Old Rose washed with Citadel Baal Red. The tongue got another wash of Citadel Leviathan Purple. I also painted faint streaks of Baal Red around the mouth.

Gills – two washes of Baal Red over the ordinary body tone.

Teeth – 034 Bone White.

Everything varnished with Vallejo Matte Varnish and mouth and gills got a coat of Gloss Varnish.

Die! Shooter from Black Scorpion.

Click here for the rest of my painted Brimstone minis.

Brimstone – Slashers

I’ve been busy with Dust for the last month or so. Now I want to finish my Brimstone minis as that game really grows the more minis you have and I prefer my minis painted.

These are the Slashers from the Swamps of Death box. Big ugly brutes.

Quite a lot of preparation as the fit wasn’t great and I needed a bit of green stuff here and there.

I tried a couple of colour schemes that didn’t turn out well and in the end I just went for a really basic paint job. Well, better painted than not…

First a coat of Vallejo 874 Tan Earth, washed with Army Painter Strong Tone Ink and finally dry-brushed with 912 Tan Yellow.

Eyes black.

Breathing tubes (or whatever) got a couple of coats of Citadel Washes Baal Red on top.

Everything coated with Vallejo Satin Varnish to get a slight sheen to the exo-skeleton. Eyes and the red of the breathing tubes got a coat of Gloss Varnish.

They are based on 40mm clear bases from Sally 4^th.

Click here for the rest of my painted Brimstone minis.