Today's post brings to you the first three re-released barbarians from Wargames Foundry fully painted up. I worked on these models on and off yesterday and got them completed this morning. Again, it seems that my camera skills are a little rusty but I managed to get a suitable shot earlier this afternoon. I am sure I will get the knack once again soon.
I painted this trio as a group of models. As you can see they share a common theme of colours - my barbarian favourites; flesh, bronze, leather and red. I used layering a great deal to build up the skin tones and washes and highlighting for the chainmail. Everything else was achieved with a simple edge highlight.
I plan to use the ten new models released last Friday to provide another unit for my barbarian warband/McDeath forces. I will probably dig out a couple of other figures from my collection to bring the number up to twelve (including a bannerbearer) but there is plenty of time for me to become distracted by something else.
One of the models has a shield on his back. I added the spot colour of blue to give a little variation in tone (the central figure has a blue semi-precious stone on his headband, but that is a little sun bleached) and used streaking to make the face of the shield look like painted wood.
These were fun models to paint and being different enough to ensure that I didn't get bored. I hate to feel like I am painting an army of identical troops, you see. I plan to finish off the two other barbarians I have based up before trying my hand at some of the re-released old Citadel fighters later on in the week. I plan to use those ten figures as a unit too, most likely for McDeath if they fit in well enough - Donaldbane's troops perhaps?
More soon.
Orlygg
They look great. I’ll have to pick them up next time I make it down to foundry.
ReplyDeleteThank you ian, I believe they are available on the Foundry Website now.
DeleteVery nice. Mate, great job.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr. Rat.
DeleteNice looking minis!
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe!
DeleteYou're camera skills are better than mine...
ReplyDeleteI keep forgetting to switch off the flash feature on my Galaxy S3.:-( What do you think of Light boxes, such as this one? https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Photography-Shooting-Cellphone-Backdrops/dp/B07DQPPVSN/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I much prefer natural light for photographing my models. No fuss - just weather permitting! (;
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ReplyDeleteOn a related note, aside from photos for backdrops, have you ever used plain colored backdrops and which one(s) would you recommend? The linked light box comes with 6 colors, but other than white, I'm not certain about the others - who takes pics with a red or yellow background?
I make my own backdrops. Hi-Res images printed off on a photocopier and backed onto card.
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