Silently the Old Folk came. From behind twilit trees they emerged with weapons created from the mountain bedrock itself and dragging ghoulish trophies. Lech and Moskin faced down the multitudes with blades drawn and vicious snarls on their faces. "I'll take the right" Lech growled to his partner. Moskin drawled back "I take it you don't want the big one?" "What big-" he saw it now: a monster drawn out from the caves, wearing a headdress of ancient bone connected with human hide, and wielding a fossilized femur strapped with scavenged metal. His hands tightened on his sword, it would be a long night.
I am very proud of how both of these models came out and I'm proud to say that I tried a new technique both in painting and in the photoshoot at the end! I blocked in the colors on both Silas and the Abomination using contrast paints and then hit a couple of places with regular acrylic highlights before hitting the whole thing with an oil paint wash. The oil wash is an interesting technique that I like because it makes the model look, to me at least, more blended together and 'realistic'. Everything looks like it's tied together, more so than when you use an acrylic wash and the paint scheme looks like the contrast was turned up. I don't think that makes and acrylic wash bad, it's just a different look. The technique I tried with my photography was hitting the model with two daylight bulbs, using a flat white background, and trying to keep the model as centered as possible. Photography is something I recognize that I am not great at but I like to try new things to try and up the presentation of my models.
With this week's progress I am down to 75 miniatures left. Most of those are from Zombicide: Black Plague and take the from of the myriad of zombies provided by the base game. The other chunk are 22 Gor miniatures that I purchased two years ago on a whim from Ebay (see a pattern?).
As I'm sitting here typing out this blog post I'm listening to one of my favorite DnD youtubers, Runehammer, and daydreaming about starting a game soon. I did a lot of image searching and Wikipedia researching look for inspiration for a part of my world that I am calling Tramonton. I'm envisioning it as kind of a fantasy analogue of medieval Switzerland, with castles and towns situated on mountainsides and lakes. Geographically it's bordered to the North by the Kingdom of Mirgrade, to the East by the Elven lands, to the West by some of the Northernmost Dwarf holds and parts of the Dûcatú de Méllècú. With my worldbuilding I like to start small with a simple settlement and then build the bigger things as I go along/ as I need them. We'll see if Tramonton ever hosts my players hopefully sometime in the future.
Until next time!
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