From the Backlog: Foundry Street Violence

I've mentioned my shoebox of discarded projects before, but yesterday I happened to be rooting through there and found a half-finished mini that could prove useful in tonight's Shadowrun game, so I pulled him out and finished him.

Here he is!

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

Hobby Methods: Five Foundry Paints

Some folks have expressed a desire to hear more about the process I go about in painting stuff up.

Well, with the release of GW's all-new paint line, it got me to thinking about the paints I currently rely most heavily on: Wargames Foundry 3-step palettes. Today I'd like to quickly name the 5 palettes I use the most, and why. Here they are in no particular order of importance.

1.) Rawhide 11 I've used this amazing earth-tone for everything from leather to cloth. It will even work as a monstrous flesh tone. Very versatile. Features heavily on my LotR Dwarf Rangers, but you'll also see it a lot on my other figures.

2.) Phlegm Green 28 For me this is the best acrylic green going. I can often "feather" between shades A and B and get the desired effect, saving C for that final line to make an edge pop. This is my go-to color for cloaks.

3.) Granite 31 This wonderful 3-step gray really blends well across all of its layers, and when I don't paint a cloak with Phlegm green, it often gets painted Granite. Also excellent for gray hair and beards.

4.) Native American Flesh 120 I started using this flesh palette about a year ago and it has quickly become a mainstay for me. Pot A provides the ruddy, darker undertone I like, but I can quickly take it higher by moving through B and C, and I can always start with B if I want a lighter skin tone.

5.) Bay Brown 42 I use a lot of browns in my painting, and no brown performs better than Bay Brown. Originally formulated for painting horse flesh, I am not sure I've painted more than one horse with it! But I can tell you I have painted hundreds of belts, packs, boots, and jerkins with it. This color blends supremely easily across all three levels, and for my money provides the truest brown you will find.

I want to note that all of the above paints (and most other Foundry paints I have used) cover a black undercoat with ease, and for me, that's a critical point to make. If you have no experience with Foundry paints, the first thing you may notice is the price--they're not cheap at $16.33 for a 3-pot palette, but you get what you pay for.

I can only speak to my personal experience, but I will contend that using these paints has made me a better painter. They'll make an average painter good, and a good painter great, and that has to be worth something.

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

A Second Foundry Swashbuckler

I found this figure last night; he was languishing in my unpainted minis bin, probably been there for at least five years. Anyway, he'll fit for my game this Saturday, so I took an hour or so last night and got some paint on him.









And here's a comp shot with one of my recent favorite Reaper figures:



This figure is not as good as the one I featured yesterday--his facial details were not as crisp, but he's still a fine figure and well worth the time to add to my collection of painted historical/fantasy models.

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

Freeport via Dragon Age

This Saturday I plan to run Green Ronin's Freeport fantasy pirate fantasy setting using a modified version of Green Ronin's Dragon Age RPG mechanics. There's a certain symmetry there.

Anyway, I am getting together some figures for it to use as NPC's, and I thought I might show off a Foundry Swashbuckler I painted a while back, as I intend to use him.







Everything about this guy oozes character. A superb mini, and I really feel like I got the most out of the time I put into the paint job.

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

2000 AD Mean Machine

A while back a few of us did a Foundry order and I picked up the 2000 AD Mean Machine figure to use for a sci-fi game. At the time I was not sure which sci-fi game, but of late, I had been looking at Mr. Mean Machine as an excellent Inquisitorial henchman, or a good foe for some PC's in a Dark Heresy style game. Well, I dug him out and painted him up to stow away for future use as a villain in just such a game.

Here he is!












And here's a comp shot with an Urban Mammoth future thug:



Funny thing, I did not set out to do it this way, but Mean Machine is a Foundry figure painted with just about all Foundry paints.

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

Another Raider For the Crew

In between working on stuff for customers, I knocked out another Wargames Foundry Viking last night. The detail and crispness of these figures really makes them a joy to paint. This guy will make an excellent NPC in my upcoming Dragon Age games, and he'll certainly find a home in my Viking warband. I believe he makes 24 total Vikings done now.

That should at least be enough to take on a lightly armed abbey!









Thanks for checking out the blog!

--Scott

We Who Are About to Die...

I am patiently waiting for the Dark Eldar plastic Wych boxed set to be released in 2 weeks. In the meantime, I needed to perfect my method for painting their flesh, because I will need to do a lot of it! My buddy Rico suggested this method:

--Prime Black
--Basecoat with GW Dwarf Flesh
--Wash with GW Leviathan Purple
--Highlight with a mix of Dwarf Flesh and Deneb Stone

Well, I needed a test model to try this on, and I had a Foundry gladiator sitting around primed in my backlog, so out he came, and I am quite pleased with my results!







There can always be some fine-tuning to the method, but the key is that this looks pretty good, and will be executable over many models. Can't wait to get those Wyches, and now this guy can join Lanista Pyle's stable of fighters!

--Scott

Foundry Thracians

Wargames Foundry makes some of the best historical miniatures in the world. My favorite of their Ancients lines are the Thracians. These miniatures ooze character and are sculpted with exacting detail.

I painted these three guys up a while back and thought I'd share them:















Now if I only I could paint a whole army at this level of detail! Actually, I'd settle for a warband of twelve!

--Scott